# companies - Friday 28 January, 2011
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
Cabin crew’s trade union and airline management agree to Labour Relations Commission intervention in the ongoing dispute.
# Recessionomics
# Recessionomics
Umbrella group for city centre traders does deal to cut cost of insurance for its 2,500 members after slow shopping year.
# Amazon
# Amazon
Website sells 115 Kindle ebooks for every 100 paperbacks.
# companies - Thursday 27 January, 2011
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
Tomorrow’s meeting mediated by IBEC and ICTU could help resolve the ongoing dispute between management and cabin crew.
# companies - Wednesday 26 January, 2011
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
Passengers hoping to travel with Aer Lingus today have been warned of disruptions after the airline cancels 14 flights.
# companies - Tuesday 25 January, 2011
# GChat
From The Daily Edge
# GChat
Eric Schmidt – who only stepped down as Google’s CEO five days ago – is eyeing up a CNN talk show, say reports.
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
A disciplinary process was due to start today for airline staff refusing to work to new rosters but the first meeting has been cancelled – meanwhile Aer Lingus warns of possible disruptions to flights.
# companies - Monday 24 January, 2011
From Business ETC
The fast food restaurant has more visitors per day than the population of Britain and Ireland combined and it hires one million people a year in the US…
# companies - Thursday 20 January, 2011
# Google
# Google
Schmidt is stepping down as CEO of Google, and company has announced Larry Page will take over the position.
# EBay
From Business ETC
# EBay
The online auction site reports better-than-expected earnings for the fourth quarter, on the bank of surging PayPal use.
# Corrib Pipeline
# Corrib Pipeline
An Bord Pleanála has approved an application for the final section of the Corrib pipeline.
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
Quest Software will make new jobs over the next three years in finance, software development and sales.
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
As many as 2,700 passengers hoping to travel between Dublin, the UK and continental Europe will face disruptions today.
# companies - Wednesday 19 January, 2011
# College Can Wait
From The Daily Edge
# College Can Wait
The top US business folk who carved their own path to the American Dream…
# Aer Lingus
# Aer Lingus
Several scheduled flights have been cancelled because of a dispute between Aer Lingus and trade union staff.
# companies - Tuesday 18 January, 2011
# Fraud
# Fraud
Alfredo Sáenz is sentenced to eight months in jail, and banned from banking for life. His response? ‘I’m going nowhere.’
# Superquinn
# Superquinn
52 of the 103 staff at Superquinn in Naas will be offered jobs elsewhere, with the rest facing compulsory redundancy.
# Ryanair
From Business ETC
# Ryanair
The airline says the ruling of a Spanish court – which said the €40 fee for reissuing boarding cards was illegal – was “bizarre”.
# companies - Monday 17 January, 2011
# Apple
From Business ETC
# Apple
The Apple CEO – who formerly had pancreatic cancer – says his board has given him some time off for medical reasons.
# companies - Saturday 15 January, 2011
# Jobs
From Business ETC
# Jobs
As many as 200 jobs could be lost a DFDS, with 60 of those at risk based in Dublin.
# Fossil Fuels
From Business ETC
# Fossil Fuels
BP has teamed up with Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft to explore for natural gas and oil off the Siberian coast.
# companies - Tuesday 11 January, 2011
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The insurer and motoring organisation will take on 40 new staff at its Dublin HQ, in its insurance and rescue divisions.
# Facebook
# Facebook
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra say their $65m Facebook setlement was based on the wrong share value.
# companies - Monday 10 January, 2011
# companies - Sunday 9 January, 2011
# VHI
# VHI
The changes to corporate premiums are expected to take place in March.
# companies - Thursday 6 January, 2011
# App Store
# App Store
The new store – the equivalent of the iTunes store, but for Mac software – may help Apple make further dents in the PC market.
# Rebranding
# Rebranding
The coffee company marks its move into supermarkets by dropping its name – and the word ‘coffee’ – from its branding.
# companies - Wednesday 5 January, 2011
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The drinks group and record chain will seek job cuts in Ireland: the former reviewing its trade, the latter hit by downloads.
# Superquinn
# Superquinn
Trade union to hold ‘intensive talks’ with supermarket over fate of its 100 employees
# Facebook
# Facebook
The U2 leaders and fellow speculators invested €157m in Facebook two years ago – and their stake could now triple in value.
# companies - Tuesday 4 January, 2011
# Investment
# Investment
Last year, multi-national companies created almost 11,000 jobs in Ireland – more than double the figure in 2009.
# companies - Monday 3 January, 2011
# Facebook
# Facebook
Goldman Sachs invests $450m in Facebook for a 0.9% stake – putting Mark Zuckerberg’s company at a total value of $50bn.
# companies - Wednesday 29 December, 2010
# Wikileaks
# Wikileaks
A senior Shell official told the US Embassy second-in-command that there could be hundreds of billions worth of gas off Irish shores.
# companies - Tuesday 21 December, 2010
# Electric Ireland
# Electric Ireland
The £1.2bn takeover deal is completed, despite the opposition of Unionist politicians resenting an all-Ireland energy company.
# companies - Monday 20 December, 2010
# Pilots
# Pilots
European safety agency puts forward plans to cap pilot’s duty hours – that’s both flying and waiting time – to a maximum of 14 hours a day, or 12 at night. Pilots’ unions say that is still an exhausting schedule.
# companies - Sunday 19 December, 2010
# Business Insider
# Business Insider
Did you know that McDonald’s sells more than 75 hamburgers per second? Then read on…
# companies - Thursday 16 December, 2010
Gillian Bowler will step down from the helm of Irish Life & Permanent once her successor has been appointed.
# companies - Monday 13 December, 2010
# Twitter
# Twitter
Google and Facebook already have their European bases in Ireland – and now the microblogging site could follow.
# Jobswatch
# Jobswatch
The computer and printer manufacturer will create posts in software engineering and recruitment will begin straight away.
# Amazon
# Amazon
The online retailer – which went down for 30 minutes last night – says its disruption was the cause of a technical fault.
