Blueprints, an impact investment platform co-founded by social entrepreneur Declan Murphy, is to open a Dublin office and partner with Irish fintech firms as it seeks to boost the incomes that farmers and foresters in undeveloped countries retain from their crop production. The Irish fintech firms collaborating with Blueprints have not been named, but it […]

Jeanine Pirro is off Fox News prime time — for one night, at least. Fox News removed Ms. Pirro’s program, “Justice With Judge Jeanine,” from its usual 9 p.m. time slot on Saturday, one week after the network took the rare step of publicly rebuking the host for an on-air monologue that questioned a Muslim […]

The chief executive of Boeing backed down on Wednesday. He called President Trump to recommend that the United States temporarily take the company’s best-selling jet out of service, following two deadly crashes in less than five months. Hours later, the president announced that the plane had been grounded. It was a stark reversal for Boeing, […]

Revenue practices will make it easier for cross-border smugglers to operate if there is a hard Brexit, according to accountancy group ACCA Ireland. And the group has even accused Revenue of acting unlawfully in the way it issues tax adviser numbers (TAINs), saying that it is faciliating “large numbers of unqualified people providing accounting, tax […]

New laws are set to safeguard drivers against bogus private parking firms as part of a wider plan to clamp down on bad practices. The new Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019, which received Royal Assent on Friday, will bring in greater regulation of the private parking industry. Drivers will be able to more easily […]

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks gained ground on Friday, boosted by shares of technology companies, as sentiment was lifted by an upbeat note on trade talks between the United States and China. China’s state-run news agency said Washington and Beijing were making further substantive progress on trade talks. The report came as a relief after news […]

(Reuters) – The Apple Watch was able to detect irregular heart pulse rates that could signal the need for further monitoring for a serious heart rhythm problem, according to data from a large study funded by Apple Inc (AAPL.O), demonstrating a potential future role for wearable consumer technology in healthcare. Researchers hope the technology can […]

Insurance is big business. At least 27 million households in the UK have it – and are paying hundreds of pounds for cover each month. That’s a huge number, but it’s likely that with many policies are out there – you may have some that you’ve forgotten about. Insurance contracts come in many shapes and […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks advanced on Friday as sentiment improved on a report that U.S.-China trade talks were making progress and after UK lawmakers voted to delay a potentially chaotic exit from the European Union. Spreadbetters expected a higher open for European stocks, with Britain’s FTSE gaining 0.2 percent and Germany’s DAX and France’s […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. regulators will ask the public if robotic cars should be allowed on streets without steering wheels or brake pedals as they try to set the first legal boundaries for their design in the world’s second largest vehicle market. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has delayed action for 15 months […]