The Irish Times

If you can do your job anywhere, can anyone do your job?

Trusting people to work well from home is one skill managers now have to learn

Fri Aug 28 2020 - 05:42

‘My habits, whether good or bad, have ultimately led to my weight loss’

Rachel Flaherty: You don’t need the perfect plan to lose weight – you just need to keep going

Tue Jan 15 2019 - 06:01

Slack time at work does not mean workers are slacking

What has happened to allowing innovation on company time?

Mon Nov 05 2018 - 15:48

Why it is worth paying attention to Marissa Mayer

Ex-Yahoo boss has a ‘little lab’ for a big question: how consumer media can use AI

Tue Apr 24 2018 - 06:05

No response from those emails and texts? It’s time to get verbal

When it comes to effective communication and persuasion, emails and texts are no substitute for an old-fashioned face-to-face conversation, according to recent research

Fri Feb 23 2018 - 08:00

Irishwoman joins Walmart board

Finance chief of digital-payment company Square Sarah Friar will bring Silicon Valley know-how to the US retailer

Thu Feb 08 2018 - 19:45

Top 1000: Women lead just 10% of Ireland’s largest companies

Irish based companies may be better than international peers when it comes to diversity- women lead just 5.8% of S&P 500 companies - but it’s still not enough

Fri Jun 23 2017 - 06:00

‘Doughnut economics’, Tory ‘Sensibles’ and celebrity high-earners

Planet Business: A week of stiff breezes, golden parachutes and Brexit ‘creationists’

Fri Jun 16 2017 - 06:01

Yahoo shareholders approve sale of core business to Verizon

Yahoo to become part of new Verizon unit, Oath, that will include media content

Thu Jun 08 2017 - 20:28

Innovation or overtime? Mystery surrounds Google’s ‘20% time’

Details were always unclear, but incubator Area 120 appears to be its new incarnation

Thu Mar 30 2017 - 06:00

Senior Yahoo executives knew about major hack in 2014

Knowledge predated $4.8bn deal with Verizon, which has since been revised

Thu Mar 02 2017 - 10:53

Marissa Mayer to resign from Yahoo’s board of directors

Tech firm outlines plans for Altaba future if sale of internet assets to Verizon goes ahead

Tue Jan 10 2017 - 16:17

Yahoo profit beats Wall Street as analysts fret over effect of hack

Results suggest data breach has not led to mass exodus of customers

Wed Oct 19 2016 - 07:23

Yahoo ‘secretly scanned customers emails’ for US

Company reportedly trawled through incoming messages due to government directive

Tue Oct 04 2016 - 21:09

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg is not a feminist icon. This is why

Evidence shows an increase in women business leaders has little impact on anyone but leaders themselves

Wed Sept 28 2016 - 13:51

City of dreams turning into nightmare for all but the tech millionaires

Palo Alto Letter: soaring demand fuelled by tech boom lifts median house price to $2.5m

Tue Sept 27 2016 - 01:00

Yahoo admits information on 500m users stolen by hackers

Office of the Data Protection Commissioner seeks further information

Thu Sept 22 2016 - 22:09

Stocktake: Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo pay deal is senseless

Chief executive’s package has been met with incredulity, given her failure to turn around the company

Tue Aug 02 2016 - 07:15

Lucy Kellaway: Focus on women bosses not necessarily sexist

What may look like gender bias in relation to Yahoo chief Mayer is understandable

Mon Aug 01 2016 - 07:53

Yahoo: a history of the internet in 5 acts

As the iconic online brand is sold we trace the tale of the guide to the world wide web

Mon Jul 25 2016 - 19:41

Verizon to buy Yahoo’s core business for almost $5bn

Buying Yahoo’s search and email operations will boost Verizon’s AOL internet business

Mon Jul 25 2016 - 12:24

Verizon to announce $5 billion deal to buy Yahoo on Monday

US telco is betting that advertisers want a sizeable alternative to Google and Facebook

Sun Jul 24 2016 - 19:34

Yahoo’s quarterly revenue tops estimates as decline slows

But deal nears on sale of web businesses as bid deadline approaches

Tue Jul 19 2016 - 08:40

Female leaders and harsh judgments

Would female chief executives be judged differently if they were men?

Fri Apr 29 2016 - 13:00

Planet Business

The ‘Grand Mac’, the ‘tough phone’ market and why it’s good to be a data scientist

Fri Apr 22 2016 - 06:30

Yahoo sets two-week deadline for internet business bids

Internet firm’s leadership is under pressure from activist investor

Tue Mar 29 2016 - 09:21

Yahoo forms panel to explore strategic options

Move comes two days after reports activist investor taking steps toward a potential proxy fight

Fri Feb 19 2016 - 15:21

Equity firms express ‘preliminary’ interest in buying Yahoo

Verizon also showing interest while AT&T and IAC said to be examining the company

Thu Feb 04 2016 - 01:00

Yahoo to cut workforce by 15% as revenues fall

Troubled internet business said it is exploring strategic alternatives, along with pursuing its reverse spin-off of its Internet business

Tue Feb 02 2016 - 21:47

Mayer gears up for yet another plan to turn Yahoo around

But sweeping overhaul may not be enough to fend off activist investors

Tue Feb 02 2016 - 07:16

Marissa Mayer to argue Yahoo can be fixed

Tech group’s plan to cut costs - and jobs - and boost growth expected on Tuesday

Mon Feb 01 2016 - 14:32

Yahoo’s brain drain shows a loss of faith in the company

CEO Marissa Mayer is crafting a last-ditch plan to streamline the company but it may be too late

Mon Jan 11 2016 - 09:05

Yahoo urged to overhaul its management

Starboard says “significant changes” needed in both the board and management

Wed Jan 06 2016 - 16:00

Investors tell Yahoo: cut 9,000 of your 10,700 staff

85% of the workforce need to go and free food should also be cut investors say as they bemoan tech company’s turnaround plan

Tue Dec 15 2015 - 08:58