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Burberry chief faces tough choices on high-end ambitions

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 13:13
Burberry's new boss Joshua Schulman faces an immediate strategy dilemma.

Blue Screen of Death: What we know about the cyber outage

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:55
Today's global cyber-outage has caught many by surprise - and it will take time before its full impact is known, writes Adam Maguire.

Ryanair wins case against Booking.com in US court

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:17
A US court ruled that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing part of Ryanair's website without permission, court documents showed, a ruling the airline said would help end unauthorised screen scraping by booking sites.

UK regulator clears Nationwide-Virgin Money deal

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 12:00
UK building society Nationwide's £2.9 billion takeover of banking firm Virgin Money has been cleared by the UK's competition regulator.

Yara beats profit expectations, unveils plan to cut costs

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 11:35
Norwegian fertiliser maker Yara International has today reported quarterly core earnings above analysts' expectations and said it plans to cut costs and capex by $300m by 2025 to improve financial performance and shareholder returns.

Home sales slow down by 13.5% in second quarter - Geowox

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 11:02
A new report shows that home sales continued their downward trend in the second quarter of this year.

Danske Bank shares rise on strong results, dividend

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 10:36
Danske Bank has today beaten second-quarter net profit expectations, helped by strong credit quality and higher net interest income, and announced an interim dividend for shareholders, boosting its shares.

Microsoft 'aware' of Windows OS getting stuck amid outage

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 10:16
Microsoft's cloud unit Azure has said it was aware of the issue that impacted virtual machines running the Windows OS and the Crowd Strike Falcon agent getting stuck in a "restarting state", amid an ongoing global outage.

Electrolux boosted by US pick up, but freight costs weigh

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 10:02
Electrolux swung to a much larger than expected profit in the second quarter amid signs of a long-awaited pick up in its North American business, briefly sending the appliances maker's shares sharply higher today.

Fuel prices tick higher in July - AA Ireland

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 09:53
Average petrol prices rose by one cent to €1.80 per litre in July, while diesel prices are up by almost three cents to €1.74 per litre, the latest AA Ireland monthly Fuel Price Survey shows.

Ryanair among airlines hit by global cyber outage

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 09:20
Ryanair said is it is currently experiencing disruption to its network due to a global third party IT outage which it said was out of its control.

London Stock Exchange's news service hit by outage

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:41
The London Stock Exchange Group was hit by a technical glitch this morning that delayed the start of trade and affected its market news service, amid outages across the world.

Global outage hits airports, broadcasters and services

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:26
Follow live updates as a number of airports, media, banking and health services globally are affected by technical outages.

Villeroy says expectations for future ECB cuts reasonable

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:22
Market expectations for the path of future interest rate cuts by the European Central Bank are "rather reasonable," ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said in an interview on French radio BFM Business today.

Travel chaos around the globe following IT outages

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 08:06
A global tech outage was disrupting operations in multiple industries, with airlines halting flights, some broadcasters off-air and everything from banking to healthcare hit by system problems.

Japan inflation rises slightly to 2.6% in June

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:57
Japanese inflation was slightly higher in June, with prices rising by 2.6% year-on-year compared with 2.5% in May, internal affairs ministry data showed today.

5 things our Deposit Return Scheme can learn from other countries

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:45
From holders on bins to donating your deposit, there are plenty of small ways for us to collect even more bottles and cans

Loci Orthopaedics to create 20 jobs in Galway

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:39
Galway based clinical stage orthopaedic medical device company Loci Orthopaedics is to create 20 new jobs, bringing its total team in Ireland to 32 employees.

'Ethical hacking' service launched by Irish IT firm

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:33
A new 'ethical hacking' service that imitates the movements of hackers to uncover and exploit cybersecurity weak spots within organisations has been launched by Irish managed IT services company IT.ie.

Increased cooling demand to keep coal plants online - IEA

Fri, 07/19/2024 - 07:26
Global electricity demand is set to grow at its fastest pace in nearly 20 years this year, spurred by increasing demand for air conditioning as temperatures rise, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a report today.

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