Big Poinsettia blooms again as houseplant exerts annual hold over festive foliage
Planet Business: Hasbro’s nightmare holiday season, the ascent of Viking Toast and Christmas TV fare
Planet Business: Hasbro’s nightmare holiday season, the ascent of Viking Toast and Christmas TV fare
Staff at board games maker accept redundancy offer as number of collective job losses soars in first three months of the year
Monopoly maker also gets price increases to stick after supply costs rise
Iseq follows other European indices higher, closing up nearly 2%
An attic clear-out in the family home unearths the games and toys from simpler times
Tech Tools: Play all your favourite board games with just a touch of the screen
Covid undermines bet on TV and movie production for accelerated growth
Sets blending physical bricks with Super Mario games propel profits
Barbie, Hot Wheels power Mattel’s holiday-quarter sales beat
Dylan Collins’s SuperAwesome acquired by Epic, games maker best known for Fortnite
Other toymakers have struggled but Lego has shrugged off shop closures
Factories in Ireland, the US and India closed just as families seek lockdown entertainment options
Cartamundi Ireland also manufactures games such as Connect 4 and Scrabble
SuperAwesome announces partnership with the world’s biggest advertising agency
How things stand, the big games, who to support and lots more
Planet Business: The toys are back in town
Irish bank stocks hammered as Sinn Féin seeks to form government
Microsoft has taken a stake in the group as it raises $17m in a new fundraising round
Studio founded by Robert Cullen produces cartoons for Disney, BBC and Nickelodeon
Glenveagh tumbles on news of chief executive’s departure
US Federal Reserve chief is due to address symposium at Jackson Hole
Transatlantic deal gives Hasbro access to company’s infant and preschool market
Smurfit Kappa rises 5 per cent, Dublin financials also buoyed
Woody started out as a jerk, Barbie is a Marxist . . . much like Andy’s toys, the fan theories around the franchise have taken on a life of their own
Internet-connected toys have sparked concerns about privacy and security
US children’s entertainment giant Hasbro submitted tender with Irish animation studio
The S&P index is up 17% so far this year with help from a dovish Federal Reserve
Dylan Collins’ SuperAwesome also announces dedicated video-on-demand service
New chairman Ynon Kreiz is focusing on movies and games for some beloved brands
Media & Marketing: Licensed products triumph in the aisles, but not all stories lead to merchandising empires
Facebook could lose $35bn in a decade due to tighter privacy laws, says Irish tech veteran
Game makers accused of ‘lacking transparency’ in selling space to companies
Paddy Power Betfair one of many gambling firms knocked by report of tax crackdown
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices