Manchester Metropolitan University
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Why Facebook wants to launch its own currency
- Technology
- May 24, 2019, 10:37
If any company can take a cryptocurrency mainstream, it is Facebook. More than 2 billion people log into its family of apps and increasingly they wa(...)

Your business week: Will Applegreen remain unfazed by Brexit?
- Business
- March 17, 2019, 15:25
Monday Indicators: US housing market index (Mar). Tuesday Results: Applegreen, Mincon, FedEx. Indicators: Euro zone construction output (Jan), lab(...)

The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019
- Books
- January 17, 2019, 05:00
Sarah Davis-Goff: Last Ones Left Alive (Tinder Press, publication March 7th) A girl called Orpen journeys from east to west across a post-apocalyptic (...)

Daniel Kokotajlo: ‘In the Jehovah’s Witnesses, family members are forced to shun eachother’
- Film
- July 27, 2018, 06:00
You wait for ages for a movie about the Jehovah’s Witnesses and then two come along at once. The Children’s Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan and (...)

Who is Steven Poacher? The man helping to plot Carlow’s rising
- Gaelic Football
- June 10, 2018, 06:00
Manchester Metropolitan University, September 1997 Local band Oasis have just released their third studio album, Be Here Now, the then fastest-sellin(...)

Bitcoin: Who really owns it, the whales or small fry?
- Financial Services
- June 9, 2018, 04:00
On the final day in his insurance job last week after 14 years in the sector, Donnie wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a rocket logo, the symbol for bitc(...)

Run-rest-run: Quick exercise is slowly catching on
- Fitness
- May 15, 2017, 05:00
Slow food, slow radio and slow art have quickly assumed their rightful places in contemporary culture. By contrast, the concept of quick exercise is o(...)
Games-based learning must tailor cost to austere times, education experts warned
- Technology
- June 6, 2013, 01:00
Irish and UK experts in games-based learning will be told that it’s not “ethical to spend vast amounts of money on what is effectively an untried and (...)