There’s nothing more frustrating than when businesses put obstacles in your way to put you off making a complaint. One of the most common problems I hear about from Resolver’s users is when businesses that don’t accept complaints by email, making you write in, try to call or go through a faceless online complaint system. […]

A section of Market Street will become a 1,000 sq m public park, with work beginning on Feb 17. With the section to be permanently closed from that date, motorists driving along Church Street and heading to Chulia Street should use D’Almeida Street, after the Cecil Street junction, the Land Transport Authority said yesterday. The […]

Donald J. Trump was burning through cash. It was early 2016, and he was lending tens of millions of dollars to his presidential campaign and had been spending large sums to expand the Trump Organization’s roster of high-end properties. To finance his business’s growth, Mr. Trump turned to a longtime ally, Deutsche Bank, one of […]

Ireland is facing a “very grave moment” which is being made worse by “mounting evidence of incomplete preparations”, Fianna Fáil’s Micheál Martin has said. The Opposition leader has hit out at what he sees as a lack of transparency from the Government about contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit. Writing in today’s Irish Independent, Mr […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A former Australian lawmaker retired from the board of the local arm of China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd on Friday, potentially weakening the firm’s efforts to withstand government moves to restrict its market access on security grounds. John Brumby, a former premier of the state of Victoria, will leave the world’s biggest […]

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc said it will start taking orders in China on Friday for a lower-priced version of its Model 3 car, as it seeks to accelerate China sales hit by trade friction between Washington and Beijing. The California-based firm said in a statement that Chinese customers will be […]

H. Lawrence Culp Jr., General Electric’s new chief executive, faces two major tasks. Mr. Culp must fix G.E.’s big yet ailing power-generation business, a turnaround project that will take a few years. More immediately, he needs to sell assets and trim costs to generate enough cash to stabilize the company as a whole. The fourth-quarter […]

(Reuters) – The board of Goldman Sachs Group Inc said on Friday it is withholding a bonus worth at least $7 million from former chief executive Lloyd Blankfein until investigations into the bank’s involvement in the 1MDB scandal are resolved. The bank also introduced a new forfeiture provision in its annual compensation plans for both […]

Brexit has already been hugely disruptive and it hasn’t even happened yet. Irish exporters with exposure to sterling have had to adjust to the British currency’s new level, with the positive aspects of diversification into other markets now more apparent than ever. However, if a no-deal scenario does transpire, the turbulence of the last two […]

Paddy Power Betfair has paid £101m (€115m) to buy a controlling 51pc stake in Georgia’s leading online betting and gaming operator, Adjarabet. The Irish gambling group expects to buy the remainder of the firm after three years. The purchase also gives Paddy Power Betfair a position in the adjacent market of Armenia, where Adjarabet has […]