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Tesla takes giant step toward blue-chip respectability
- Markets
- November 17, 2020, 08:56
Tesla, Elon Musk’s 17-year-old upstart carmaker, took a giant step toward blue-chip respectability on Monday, getting named to one of the world’s most(...)

‘The beauty of San Francisco is the diversity’
- Work
- October 9, 2020, 05:02
Forest fires, sky high rents and mono culture have given San Francisco a bad name, but Dubliner Keith O’Reilly has made the city at the Golden Gate hi(...)

A Smigin of language goes a long way for well-travelled Cork woman
- Technology
- May 22, 2020, 05:37
Originally from Co Cork, Susan O’Brien studied languages at UCC, majoring in Italian. “I left college in 1994 and moved to Italy with notions of teach(...)

Elon Musk sues to reopen Tesla factory in California
- Manufacturing
- May 10, 2020, 14:48
Tesla chief Elon Musk on Saturday sued Alameda County, home to the electric carmaker’s Fremont manufacturing plant, and threatened to withdraw Tesla f(...)

Michael Jordan set to have centre stage all to himself once again
- Other Sports
- April 18, 2020, 08:00
In the thousands of frozen images of Michael Jordan stilled while in mid-air during berserk NBA nights or in predatory moments on the basketball court(...)

ChangeX seeks to raise $3m in drive to fund community projects
- Technology
- January 4, 2020, 06:34
Irish-headquartered social entrepreneurship platform ChangeX is seeking to raise $3 million (€2.7 million) as it plans to invest in bringing more idea(...)

Matheson turning to technology for its legal services market
- Technology
- November 7, 2019, 06:00
Irish law firm Matheson is turning to technology to cement its foothold in the legal services market, creating a new digital services group with exper(...)

Housing crisis: Dublin should ‘look at what California has done, and don’t do it’
- Homes & Property
- September 28, 2019, 06:00
Mike Reed’s camper is parked on the side of the road alongside the boundary to Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of Silicon V(...)

Innovation: too much talk and not enough thinking
- Innovation
- July 25, 2019, 06:20
When Finnish Prof Alf Rehn was asked to deliver a presentation on innovation to the executive team of a major US tech corporation, he decided to under(...)

Car-makers must beware of innovating themselves out of business
- Transport & Tourism
- May 4, 2019, 02:15
That the car industry is going through a major change right now is undeniable. Buyers’ tastes are moving fast, as is legislation surrounding safety an(...)