The high failure rate in mergers and acquisitions has been known for 40 years

CSO to report retail spending figures. Alphabet, Facebook and Apple to deliver results

Apple, Merck, Pfizer and Mastercard all due to report results

This is a good option for about half the money of top-of-the-range flagships

With the rise and rise of electric and autonomous vehicles, there will be fewer ways to differentiate one car from another

Business This Week: Small Firms Association conference adopts an ‘innovate or expire’ approach to future business

For Irish pet owners, there are options and we’ve run the rule over them so you don’t have to

December’s consumer spending will show how real the threat of e-commerce is to traditional retail

Consumer Electronic Show offers peek of future concepts both utilitarian and wacky

The impact of US foreign direct investment is felt in almost every corner of Ireland

Irish companies of all sizes, and across a variety of sectors, are already succeeding in China. We catch up with four to find out about their activities there

Your business this week: Irish unemployment figures, BoE rates decision and Starbucks results

CRH, Urban Outfitters, Analog Devices and Target to report results

Moto G a good choice for those unwilling to spend the guts of a mortgage payment on one

Elsewhere, FBD’s H1 results come in middle of an investigation into the firm

Former Expedia executive Gary Morrison to become chief executive on June 11th

Results due from Apple, Merck, Pfizer, Aon and Tesla, McDonalds and Trinity Biotech

Device prides itself on being first with 120Hz refresh rate but its 5.7in size is a little unwieldy

This Week: Airline’s first-half results will reflect investor jitters. Also: AIB’s egm

Tech giant takes on 2,000 engineering and design staff to better compete with Apple

Before you complain, stop and think about how expensive and rubbish mobiles used to be

Samsung DeX takes an impressive shot at turning your smartphone into a full PC

Nokia 8 can capture video from both its front and rear cameras at the same time, and broadcast the images side-by-side to the likes of YouTube

Long gone are the days when he would switch off ‘7th Heaven’ for that part when the Dad was talking to the kids about the risks of teenage sex

‘It began because Steve hated this guy at Microsoft’

First increase in demand for personal computers recorded since 2012

Bestselling business author on how he became invested in the principles he framed

Interview: Seán Bolger of Imagine claims the route to rural connectivity is wireless

Practitioner says it is not about decluttering, it is an Earth science

With Fitbit snapping up Pebble for a song, time could be running out for wearable tech

Despite selling two million watches, time has run out for the wearable tech firm

Irish company had sued telecoms giant over alleged failure to provide broadband network

The promised tech future is never quite what it was supposed to be. Darn

Phonecall to Longford station warned of explosives on buses and at Sinn Féin building

Apple has decided to remove the audio jack from its new phone

Firm could meet some resistance in audio changes but dual camera will be welcomed

Sharp decline is highly unusual for a new Apple product so early in its life and will compound Wall Street concerns

Firm struggles to revive Motorola smartphone business it bought for $2.8 billion

The Apple Watch is expected to lead the market this year with a 49.4% share

Android handset has bright and crisp 5.7-inch display but is relatively bulky