RTE Business

The national commercial vacancy rate hit a new high of 14.4% in June, new data shows.

Female entrepreneurs in rural Ireland have said the experience of starting a business can be isolating and very tough and have praised peer-led support they received from other women.

Microsoft said its board has approved a new share buy back programme of up to $60 billion.

Wizz Air expects 15-20% growth in passenger volume next year, its chief executive has told Reuters, with new low-cost routes to the Middle East, such as from Europe to the United Arab Emirates, adding an extra boost.

The world's largest betting company Flutter Entertainment has agreed a deal with UK gambling technology firm Playtech to buy its Italian unit Snaitech for €2.3 billion, including debt, the companies said today.

ESB Group has reported a 34% decrease in operating profits for the six months to the end of June due to the continued normalisation of global energy markets after what it called the "extraordinary" volatility and peaks in pricing seen in 2022 and early 2023.

Starbucks' decision to give their new boss a jet for his commute to the office shows a strong and extreme bias against remote work

Nine Irish agri innovators have been named as finalists in this year's Enterprise Ireland Innovation Arena Awards, and will participate in a live competition at the National Ploughing Championships today.

Thousands of people are due to travel to Ratheniska in Co Laois for the start of the National Ploughing Championships.

Meta has said it is banning Russian state media outlets from its apps around the world due to "foreign interference activity".

Four out of ten Irish employees are likely to switch jobs in the next year amid rising workloads and an accelerating pace of change, according to new research.

Wizz Air expects 15-20% growth in passenger volume next year, its chief executive told Reuters on today, with new low-cost routes to the Middle East, such as from Europe to the United Arab Emirates, adding an extra boost.

RTÉ recorded a deficit of €9.1m last year, an increase from €2.8m in 2022, according to the broadcaster's annual report.

Boeing said it is freezing hiring and weighing temporary furloughs in the coming weeks to manage costs as a strike by more than 30,000 Boeing workers who build planes in factories on the US west coast stretched into its fourth day.

The cost of legal settlements to farmer clients at State agricultural research and training agency, Teagasc last year increased more than five fold to €503,000.

A battle over control of Rupert Murdoch's global television and publishing empire is to begin in a Reno, Nevada courtroom, where a judge will consider the contentious matter of succession.

The Swedish state will not take a stake in battery maker Northvolt and the company's future must be determined by its private owners, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson told a press conference today.

Lawyers for TikTok and parent company ByteDance will square off with the Justice Department in a Washington courtroom today over the fate of a law that could ban the short video app used by 170 million Americans as soon as January 19.

Ibec's Experience Economy policy committee has appointed Catherine Toolan, Managing Director of Diageo Irish Brand Homes, as its new Chairperson during a meeting at Shannon Airport.

The European Central Bank should keep cutting interest rates gradually, its chief economist said today, after policymakers reduced borrowing costs last week for the second time this year.