Other investors in Convoy include Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff and Reid Hoffman

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

U2 frontman and lead guitarist The Edge invest in on-demand trucking firm

Employment law conference to address ‘increasingly restrictive’ legislation

Turnover rose while losses narrowed at Irish unit of global online review platform

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

While big companies try to prevent them, fake user reviews are still a problem

Also Brexit opportunities, financial improprieties, and unemployment decrease

Caveat: Chief executive Jeremy Stoppelman delivered the news in a cold, insensitive manner

Online review platform announced the creation of 100 jobs in Dublin only two years ago

806 million people use smartphone multipurpose app but Beijing monitors content

Ireland’s Top 1000 companies hit record profits of some €36bn in this year’s survey

Along with Yelp and others, the travel-review site lets us share our opinions about restaurants, hotels and much more. But how trustworthy are user reviews, and how do they affect business?

What Yelp and TripAdvisor say about places in Ireland

The bargain you make, again and again, with various companies is surveillance in exchange for free service

Yelp.com could net in excess of $3.5 billion if it is sold, reports ‘Wall Street Journal’

Local advertising revenue dropped as a result of a sales-force restructuring

Apple takes centre stage with iPhone sales driving up their profit margins

Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yelp – all are products of a small, elitist cabal with PayPal roots

New innovators: eTownz’s Pat Kennedy