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Humanoids raising funds: Where are Asia’s top VCs placing their chips? 

Humanoids raising funds: Where are Asia’s top VCs placing their chips? 

The sight of the gleaming new military equipment on show in Beijing during the 80th anniversary of peace between China and Japan garnered global attention. Weapons that can reach anywhe...

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An Post and Fastway Couriers: A “competitive market” or “predatory pricing”?

An Post and Fastway Couriers: A “competitive market” or “predatory pricing”?

Fastway Couriers, one of Ireland’s largest parcel delivery firms, which is now facing closure, wrote to its biggest competitor An Post last year accusing it of “flagrant predatory prici...

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Retrospective purchase orders raised for €47m in RTÉ spend since 2024

Retrospective purchase orders raised for €47m in RTÉ spend since 2024

RTÉ’s audit and risk committee has sounded the alarm over “poor governance” through the widespread use of retrospective purchase orders in procuring millions of euro worth of goods and ...

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Lender to Fastway Couriers appoints receivers after it failed to secure new capital

Lender to Fastway Couriers appoints receivers after it failed to secure new capital

A receiver has been appointed to Fastway Couriers, the private equity-backed delivery company which employs 300 people, after it failed to secure a new investor. Over 600 more people in...

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“Clubs are businesses”: Whitney Moore’s Emma Richmond on why governance matters in sport

“Clubs are businesses”: Whitney Moore’s Emma Richmond on why governance matters in sport

When most people think about sport, they picture elite athletes, packed stadiums, or sponsorship deals. But for the majority of Ireland’s population, sport looks very different. It’s th...

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Small team, big impact: How Tapestry VC is competing with the world’s venture giants

Small team, big impact: How Tapestry VC is competing with the world’s venture giants

None of Patrick Murphy’s friends were interested in computers in school. Growing up in Blackrock, a seaside village in Co Louth, he used to buy PC World Magazine and painstakingly learn...

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