The move away from British-based websites presents opportunities for local retailers with a quarter of those surveyed saying they are purchasing more from Irish businesses.

Opportunities for Irish retailers as consumers experience problems at UK websites

Vivid last month secured a further €100 million in funding at a €775 million valuation to expand in Europe

Fintech offers basic banking services and allows users to invest in stocks and crypto

Clearco chief executive Michele Romanow

New jobs to aid expansion and primarily cover sales and business development

Elgin aims to deploy significant capital to help developers bring new and existing residential projects to completion. Photograph: iStock

Newly founded lender has partnered with Pollen Street Capital on new fund

LetsGetChecked has shipped more than three million tests to customers globally

Irish home testing company is one of a small handful of home-grown tech unicorns

Health insurer VHI has announced an average 3 per cent refund for customers due to the continued reduction in claims because of the Covid crisis. Photograph:  Hugh Macknight/PA Wire

Customers could be due between €100 and €300 per adult and €25 to €100 per child

Consumers should be mindful of the risks posed by investing in unregulated activities, such as cryptocurrency trading, the ombudsman said

New report from Financial Services Ombudsman shows rise in complaints last year

The CoLab facility is situated on the Letterkenny IT campus

Company setting up a new software engineering hub in the CoLab facility

Conor O’Loughlin moved home with his family to Ireland from Los Angeles shortly before Covid struck. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

CEO Conor O’Loughlin on how his firm aims to be ‘operating system of the fitness sector’

The recruitment drive comes as the Irish unit’s immediate parent Pepper European Servicing this week rebranded to Pepper Advantage. Photograph: iStock

Company commences recruitment with headcount set to reach 600 by year end

Buymie.ie chief executive Devan Hughes: Delivery firm’s partnership with Asda is a “watershed moment” and offers “the opportunity to expand in a market 10 times the size of the Irish one”.

Grocery delivery service has identified 200 cities and towns across Ireland and Britain

The State’s shareholding in Bank of Ireland has reduced to 4.93%  from 5.94%.  Photograph: iStock

It is expected that the State’s holding in the bank will fall to zero by the middle of this year

Users of the Tetra network include An Garda Síochána. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Company takes full ownership of provider of secure comms for emergency services

Frank Smyth and William Oppermann of Pilot Photonics,  with Enterprise Ireland chief executive Leo Clancy and Kernel Capital partner Denise Sidhu.  Photograph: Gerard McCarthy

Company is focused in the area of photonics, considered a key enabling technology

Revolut said the upgrade process to become a banking customer only takes a few minutes and can all be done via its mobile app

Fintech’s 1.7m Irish customers can avail of additional services such as personal loans

Intercom chief product officer Paul Adams

Along with the new products are a complete rebuild of the popular Intercom Inbox

Guidewire’s Irish operations include customer and cloud operations, delivery services, and product development

Company to increase headcount to 600 people as it marks tenth year in Dublin

Facebook (now known as Meta) whistleblower Frances Haugen. Photograph: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Facebook whistleblower urges Data Protection Commission to be braver in taking on firms

Open for Vintage co-founder and chief executive Colin Saunders

Second-hand designer goods ecommerce platform’s backers include Voxpro founders

Ramp co-founders Karim Atiye and Eric Glyman

US fintech doubles valuation to €7.25bn after securing €680m in investment

Although turnover slipped, Vodafone Ireland increased its mobile and fixed contract customers over the year

Mobile operator chalks up a €38.4m operating loss as annual revenues fall 2.9%

 Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss of Oxford during the boat race between Oxford and Leander, as a preview to the 2010 Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race on the River Thames  in London. Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images

Identical twins are best known for suing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

Arcol founder and chief executive Paul O’Carroll

Device used by architects, engineers, contractors in building design and construction

Derek Keys, who founded Euro Auctions with his brothers. Photograph: John McVitty

UK regulator to hold in-depth investigation into planned merger with Ritchie Bros

Glofox chief executive Conor O’Loughlin. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

Gym management software company fighting fit as it looks to take headcount to 350

The Intel manufacturing plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins

Republic has ‘let us down’ by losing key investment to Germany, says Imprint founder

Founded by Mayo-native Laura Modi and Sarah Hardy, who met while both working at Airbnb.

Start-up was established by Mayo-native Laura Modi and Sarah Hardy early last year

Disruptive software innovation: Retinize founders Phil and Jack Morrow  with  members of the team

Irish VC Sure Valley Ventures leads £2m seed round for father and son-founded start-up

 Dr Alison D’Arcy founded Woebot in 2017

San Francisco-headquartered firm has secured more than $123.5m in funding to date

The DPC is Facebook’s lead regulator in the EU. Photograph: AFP via Getty

Watchdog imposed fine following inquiry into 12 data breach notifications in 2018

Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s global chief executive, pictured at the Leixlip campus last year. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill / The Irish Times

Move comes as Germany confirmed as location for two new semiconductor factories

Tim Houstoun, chief executive of Global Shares. Photograph: Daragh McSweeney/Provision

Acquisition described as ‘great news for west Cork’, with scope for more jobs locally

Kernel Capital partner Denise Sidhu, Causeway Sensors chief executive Antony Murphy,  Causeway Sensors co-founder Bob Pollard and David Moore, head of spin-outs and investments at QUBIS

Diagnostics company based in North is a spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast

Global Shares chief executive Tim Houstoun.

West Cork-based fintech creates solutions for employee share ownership in companies

Getvisibility co-founders Ronan Murphy, and Mark Brosnan and company chairman Herb Hribar. Photograph: Alan Rowlette

Cork-based start-up was founded in 2018 by Ronan Murphy and Mark Brosnan

Stripe founders Patrick and John Collison: their company was earlier this week named as the ‘most innovative company in the world’   by Fast Company

Payments firm founded by Patrick and John Collison builds solution for FTX exchange

Safecility founder and chief executive Cian O’Flaherty

Start-up developing platform that combines blockchain and satellite technology

Vikings Valhalla is one of a number of Netflix shows filmed in Ireland

Streaming service announces completion of season two of Irish-filmed Vikings Valhalla

Bank of Ireland said it is seeking technical architects, software developers, engineers, specialised project managers, scrum masters and data analysts to join its in-house tech teams

New roles are in addition to the 130 IT specialist jobs announced just under a year ago

Zartis wants more Irish tech companies to contribute funds to provide training for people in Direct Provision

Tech firms called upon to help pay for training for people in direct provision

Overall, households here pay more than double the Euro zone average rate of 1.31 per cent. Photograph: IStock

Irish households paying second highest rate in the euro zone

 Stripe, founded by Patrick and John Collison, has received the accolade for “kick-starting the carbon-removal industry”. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Two other Irish-founded firms – Evervault and Moonshot – also on Fast Company’s list

Kevin Glynn (left) and David Nolan founded Butternut Box in 2016.

Firm which has produced 34 million healthy meals for dogs is launching delivery service

MCO is buying Schwab Compliance Technologies, a provider of advanced employee monitoring services, for an undisclosed sum.

New combined company will support in excess of 1,200 clients in more than 100 countries

Domino’s said at the end of last year it invested £6.6 million in a 46 per cent share of a group operating 22 stores in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Fast-food chain reports increased profits and unveils £46m share buyback programme

Writech joint managing directors Ted and Alan Wright

Mullingar-headquartered firm on the acquisition trail after multimillion euro investment last year

Nuritas founder and chief executive Dr Nora Khaldi

Female-founded companies raise more than €230m, up from €105m in 2020

Genesis chief financial officer Billy Morris

Chief financial officer Billy Morris says opportunity for even more roles to be created

Drive Inc founders Conor O’Boyle and Shane Ennis.

Company behind Sweep, TradeBid and Nevo, looking to recruit in the near future

Tánaiste, Leo Varadkar with Catherine Duffy and Mark Redmond of AmCham. Photograph: Fennell Photography

Some 95% of multinationals expect State to still win investments post-OECD tax reform

Phorest founder Ronan Perceval

Company founded by Ronan Perceval looking to use finance for expansion

Harp designs and manufactures solutions that convert food and other organic waste into a dry, safe, nutrient-rich, bio-fertiliser

Nasdaq-listed Renovare Environmental buys Co Meath-headquartered company

Kneat co-founders Kevin Fitzgerald, Eddie Ryan and Brian Ahearne

Move come as the company, which is listed in Toronto, opens 13,000 sq ft office

Carolan Lennon was the first woman to lead Eir after she replaced Richard Moat as head of the company in 2018. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Software giant employs about 2,500 people in the Republic

Okta has developed a popular identity and access management platform used by more than 15,000 organisations

Okta says it will initially be targeting employees for customer-facing roles here

Shares in Ryanair jumped 2.3 per cent to €14.38 on Wednesday

Ryanair rises in Dublin as O’Leary reassures investors while AIB down ahead of results

The minimum compound annual growth rate needed to make the list is 36.5 per cent. Photograph: iStock

Bio-Marine Ingredients, Bevcraft, Systeme.io, Snigel named among leading European firms

Sure Valley Ventures managing partner Barry Downes

Irish-founded VC makes first close of fund, with British Business Bank among backers

EVs, plug-in hybrids and hybrids continue to rise in popularity, with a combined market share now of 44 per cent

Sales of EVs doubled last month although petrol and diesel cars still dominate

More than €6.5 billion has been spent by the Government so far on the scheme

Government is phasing out the scheme, which is due to end completely on April 30th

BT employed 677 people at the end of March 2021 and had staff costs totalling €63.2 million, which includes share-based payments

Telco, which employs nearly 700 people, recorded revenues of €350m last year

Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, Gong vice-president of EMEA Wendy Harris and Donal Travers of IDA Ireland

US-Israeli company uses AI and machine learning to analyse customer data

Strong Roots founder and chief executive Sam Dennigan.  The company’s $55 million  investment from McCain Foods was the biggest Irish VC deal  recorded in the fourth quarter

Investment at a high despite dip in the fourth quarter with 287 VC deals recorded last year

Virgin Media Ireland chief executive Tony Hanway

Virgin says inital 9,000 homes passed in fourth quarter for its fibre network upgrade

Artugen is a provider of clinical research and development services using intellectual property licensed from the institute for the development of targeted treatments for bacterial infections

Mr Chan’s Morningside Group provides additional $5m to Cork-founded company

Gene Murtagh, chief executive of Kingspan. Photograph: Alan Betson

Kingspan says the acquisition will increase earnings by approximately 7% annually

Viatel chief executive Paul Rellis.

Irish telecoms group makes its fifth acquisition with a deal for Co Wicklow company

Dublin is ranked in fourth place overall as one of the lead “European cities of the future”, behind London, Amsterdam and Paris. Photograph: IStock

Dublin and Cork both place well with other cities and regions also ranking in FT survey

Lafayette Gourmet is a fine food deli and market place located in the retailer’s flagship store on Boulevard Haussmann that offers prestige produce such as foie gras.

The newly-minted unicorn is to develop a bespoke ordering solution for the upmarket retailer

Republic of Work chief executive Frank Brennan and director Barry Doyle. Photograph: Robin Guiton

Cork-based co-working hub benefiting from companies looking at hybrid options for staff

Employment increased in most sectors in the fourth quarter with the largest increase in the accommodation and food service category

Largest increase was in accommodation and food services which jumped by 29.8%

US stocks fell in early trading on Wednesday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq leading losses

Financial stocks in retreat as Kerry the star performer after posting strong results

UFODrive is all-digital, all-electric car rental service that is controlled via an app. It offers high-end vehicles for rental from the likes of Tesla, Hyundai, Audi and Jaguar

News comes as Hertz to deploy UFODrive’s technology to manage its EV fleet operations

Tony Barry, vice-president  of finance; Miriam Manning, HR director;  Taoiseach Micheál Martin; and Roger Clancy, vice-president  of operations and general manager, at Telus’s Irish headquarters in Cork. Photograph: Michael O’Sullivan/OSM PHOTO

The company, which formerly acquired Voxpro, is also investing €2m in upgrading its facilities

Deborah Threadgold, country general manager at IBM Ireland, and Tánaiste Leo Varadkar at the jobs announcement. Photograph: Naoise Culhane

Tech company says the new roles will be spread across locations in Dublin, Cork and Galway

Gaeltec managing director Joao Felizardo; Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Leo Varadkar; and SIRO chief executive John Keaney

Approximately 60 of the jobs are to support the upgrade of Siro’s fibre broadband network

Jameson is the most popular Irish whiskey globally, selling 8.6 million cases last year. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Irish Distillers’ owner Pernod Ricard optimistic on full-year earnings after strong start

European ombudsman Emily O’Reilly. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

EU ombudsman acts after complaint from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Inflation is expected to rise 4.6%  this year. Photograph: IStock

Central Bank governor reiterates inflation risks ‘are to the upside’ in near term

Coalition sources said there would be focus on actions that could reduce Government-controlled costs.

Relief expected for low-income families amid soaring cost of living

The fund has been established to focus on sectors that typically experience difficulty in attracting early stage investment, including life sciences and female-led enterprises. Photograph: iStock

Irish Innovation Seed Fund aims to help at least 45 Irish start-ups to go global

 Government sources have said that while nothing has been agreed yet, an increase in the home energy credit from €100 to between €150 and €200 is on the cards amid rising costs. Photograph: Alan Betson

Cost-of-living package will not be reserved for those on low incomes, says Varadkar

Perfuze founders Wayne Allen and Liam Mullins. The company   has raised €22.5 million in funding for the development of a new stroke treatment

Company developing catheter-based technology to facilitate fast clot removal

The French finance minister said the ultimate target is to have 10 technology companies ‘worth more than €100bn each by 2030’.

Irish Innovation Seed Fund will be financed by Department of Enterprise and other organisations

Tap to Pay on iPhone enables businesses to  accept Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallets through a simple tap to their iPhone

Feature allows retailers to turn smartphones into contactless payment terminals

Facebook parent Meta is under investigation by both Revenue and the Irish Data Protection Commission. Photograph:   Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP

Meta also expects final decision on DPC inquiry to be announced in first half

Teeling Whiskey Distillery in the heart of Dublin. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography

Sales rose 16.3% last year with Irish whiskey the third-fastest-growing spirits category

The latest data shows that people are spending 13.3 per cent more on each trip to the supermarket than they did in early 2020

Grocery sales have slipped but are still considerably higher than before the pandemic

KBC is departing the Irish market. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Lender is also in process of selling remaining €9.2bn of Irish loans to Bank of Ireland

Enda Keogh, owner of Peter’s pub in Dublin 2. The number of Revolut’s 1.7 million Irish customers who bought drink in bars on January 22nd was more than double that of the previous day

Biggest increase in expenditure was on travel, data compiled by Revolut shows

US World Cup winner Megan Rapinoe pictured wearing a StatsSports device during training.

Irish company’s GPS-based tech is used by over 800 elite clients across multiple sports

A Ikea adviser with a customer. The company has introduced a new Dublin city-centre-based service that provides customers with a free consultation with a designer. Photograph: Ikea.

Furniture retailer establishes new outlet in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre

There were 237,141 people either on the Live Register or receiving PUP last month, new figures show

Some 75,413 people were on PUP last month, up from 66,901 in December 2021

The 40 millionth Ford Motor Co. F-Series truck rolls off the assembly line at the Ford Dearborn Truck Plant in Michigan. Photograph: JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Sales rose 5% to $37.7bn in the fourth quarter but share fall 6.8% on supply chain issues

CroíValve chief executive Lucy O’Keeffe and R&D director Gavin Kenny with the device.

Company has developed a minimally invasive device to treat defective heart valves

José Luis Manzanares Abásolo, chief executive of Ayesa Engineering and John Byrne, managing director of ByrneLooby. Photograph: James Crombie/INPHO

Irish company employs over 225 people and has annual revenues of €24m

Minister of State for Financial Services Séan Fleming: ‘The Central Bank has a great reputation internationally.’

Minister says not the role of bank to encourage firms to operate here

Photograph: iStock

Iseq closes slightly higher with house builders Cairn and Glenveagh in focus

Sitenna is a cloud-based software platform that helps telecos find new locations to put up towers and antennae. Photograph: IStock

Start-up connects mobile operators with landlords for sites to host 5G equipment

It is an open secret that Revolut is not the biggest fan of the financial regulator

Fintechs are frustrated at the time it takes to get authorisation from the Central Bank

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