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Spotify hints at improving advertising and listening trends
- Media & Marketing
- July 29, 2020, 14:26
Spotify Technology, the world’s largest audio-streaming service, gave some hints of improving trends in advertising sales and music listening with its(...)

The bard from Ballymena who got too homesick in Canada
- Abroad
- July 28, 2020, 10:00
The Rob Roy was perhaps one of the most unfortunate ships to ever cross the Atlantic. Having left Belfast 25 days earlier, disaster struck the vessel (...)

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Michael Burke
- Health & Pharma
- July 24, 2020, 05:13
Chanelle Pharmaceuticals chief executive Michael Burke has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for June, an award run in assoc(...)

Surge in eating at home cushions pandemic hit for Unilever
- Manufacturing
- July 23, 2020, 12:39
Second-quarter sales at Unilever fell much less than expected as a pick up in eating at home during coronavirus lockdowns boosted demand for products (...)

Suspicious minds wonder about timing of UK's Russia spying claims
- UK
- July 17, 2020, 01:57
Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute said this week that, after a human trial of its potential coronavirus vaccine showed it to be safe, it hopes to test it on(...)

Exporters in ‘position of strength’ to face dual threat of Covid-19 and Brexit
- Financial Services
- July 16, 2020, 07:55
Irish exporters recorded a record sales in 2019 but the dual threat of Covid-19 and Brexit represents “critical challenges” for them this year, accord(...)

Computing poised to make quantum leap
- Science
- July 16, 2020, 05:00
Henry Ford reputedly said that if he had asked people what they wanted, they’d have chosen faster horses, not cars. In the past two decades, we sought(...)

Ornua to expand US cheese-making operation with $10m investment
- Agribusiness & Food
- July 15, 2020, 06:46
Ornua, the State’s largest dairy exporter, will invest $10 million (€8.7 million) in one of its US cheese-making facilities to increase production cap(...)

Mandatory quarantine and flight cancellations unlikely despite rise in cases
- Irish News
- July 14, 2020
The Government is likely to avoid the harshest measures to curtail international travel or the movement of people arriving from overseas when it updat(...)

Covid-19: Cases rise in US, India as Australian spike leads to localised lockdown
- World
- July 11, 2020, 15:17
US New cases of Covid-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the United States on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third conse(...)