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Ozempic and Wegovy have been shown to have a dramatic impact on users', and their success is up-ending multiple industries too, writes Adam Maguire.

A new strategy aimed at ensuring that every local authority in Ireland will have 90% of its services available online by 2030 has been launched.

The domestic tourism market grew strongly in 2023 with over 14.3 million trips taken by Irish holidaymakers which generated €3.1 billion for the economy.

The chief executive of the Austrian bank Bawag Group, which is rolling out a mortgage offering in Ireland under the MoCo brand, says it is taking a really slow methodical approach to building its operation here.

Domino's Pizza fell short of estimates for quarterly same-store sales today, as inflation worries discouraged US consumers, particularly in the lower-income group, from eating out or ordering in.

Meta has said it will withhold the roll out of future 'multimodal' artificial intelligence (models in the EU over what it described as the "unpredictable nature" of the European regulatory environment.

Meta has said it will withhold the roll out of future 'multimodal' artificial intelligence (models in the EU over what it described as the "unpredictable nature" of the European regulatory environment.

The UK's financial watchdog said it wants banks to improve the way they treat political figures, after being urged by the former government to look into whether people were being unfairly debanked.

Profits at the Irish operations of Spanish lender Bankinter rose by 20% in the first half of the year.

Premier Lotteries Ireland, which operates the Irish National Lottery, is set to move into a new office space at 1 George's Quay (1GQ) - Ulster Bank's former headquarters - later this summer.

The new Penneys store in Bray in Co Wicklow was officially opened today after an investment worth over €4m by the retailer.

Airline e-commerce platform Datalex said it intends to launch a €25m equity fundraising in the early Autumn.

Digital engineering company GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, is expanding its presence on the island of Ireland as it opens a new office in Newry, Co Down.

The Suez Canal's annual revenue dropped by almost a quarter in its latest financial year as some shippers switched to alternative routes to avoid attacks by Iran-aligned Houthis in the Red Sea.

International Distribution Services (IDS), the owner of Britain's Royal Mail, has today reported an 8.2% rise in revenue for the first quarter of fiscal 2025, supported by strong parcel demand and more postal votes during the UK elections.

French automaker Renault said today that its first-half sales volume rose 1.9% compared to the same period a year earlierdue to strong performance of its hybrids in Europe, its key region.

New car sales in the European Union rose 4.3% in June to their highest since July 2019, driven by an uptick in major markets Italy, Germany, and Spain, while registrations of battery electric cars fell marginally, data from Europe's auto industry body showed today.

Frasers, the British sportswear and apparel retailer that owns the Sports Direct brand, reported a 13.1% rise in annual profit and forecast more growth in its new financial year as it benefits from a plan to shift the group upmarket.

Italy's antitrust agency has launched an investigation into online search giant Google and its parent company Alphabet over alleged unfair commercial practices, the regulator said today.

TSMC has today posted a 36% jump in second-quarter net profit that beat market expectations as the Taiwanese chipmaker rides a wave of demand for semiconductors used in artificial intelligence applications.