If you have replaced your ATM card over the past few months, you may have been given one of the new contactless Visa debit cards that are being rolled(...)

Google’s decision to shut down its web-based payments system, Google Checkout, is being seen as a “clever” if inevitable move by ecommerce expe(...)

“[Michael] Somers is something of a divisive figure. For many, he is one of the most talented public servants the State ever produced; for others, he was an overpaid plutocrat with a fondness for saying ‘I told you so’.” Photograph: Alan Betson

The taxpayer could be forgiven for being a little bemused at claims that jobs are at risk because of heavy-handed regulation of the banks. (...)

Mark Ennis of Invest NI: “What is particularly pleasing is that within these results is a strong set of achievements by local businesses.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne

The North’s business development agency helped support the creation of nearly 7,400 jobs during 2012 and 2013, according to Invest Northern Ire(...)

 Pay Pal president David Marcus at the official opening of Ebay’s International Operations Centre in Dundalk yesterday. Photograph: Alan Betson

When we think of money, we tend to picture the tangible cash in our wallets rather than the intangible balance in our bank accounts. But it’s m(...)

A new eBay facility will be opened by Taoiseach Enda Kenny and PayPal president David Marcus in Dundalk today. Photograph: Cyril Byrne/The Irish Times

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has officially opened Ebay’s new European headquarters in Dundalk. The Co Louth facility will be responsible for customer (...)

For a man who has just been introduced as a modern Isambard Kingdom Brunel or Henry Ford, the 41-year-old Elon Musk looks nervous and hesitant (...)

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who have amassed a large bitcoin portfolio, in their office in New York last week. The twin brothers’ decision to go public with their position on the digital currency signals a new stage for what has been an experimental alternative to national currencies. Photograph: Agaton Strom/The New York Times

Bitcoin’s wild ride may not have been the biggest business story of the past few weeks, but it was surely the most entertaining. Over the cours(...)

Louise Phelan of Paypal: “A number of graduates don’t seem to understand how to carry themselves in a workplace, but more importantly don’t show an interest in learning how to do it”

The head of PayPal Ireland, Louise Phelan, caused quite a stir a few weeks ago when she said she finds many of the recent crop of Irish graduat(...)

The e-universe is steadily generating its own language. Some of the terms are new and startling. Others are so familiar that we don’t even noti(...)

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