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US cable giant Comcast bid £17.28 a share for control of London-listed Sky during the auction, bettering £15.67 a share offer by Fox

Comcast outbids Fox with €33bn offer for Sky in auction

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Comcast beat Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox in the battle for Sky after offering around £30bn (€33bn) for the British broadcaster in a rare auction to decide the fate of the pay-television group.

The value of the transactions in the first half of 2018 increased from €6.04bn to €7.11bn

Slight increase in house sales in first half of year

It's the latest in a series of technical issues that Ulster Bank has reported in recent years

Technical issues resolved at Ulster Bank

Ryanair has upset Italian consumer groups with its new policy of charging for hand luggage

Italy opens inquiry into Ryanair hand baggage charge

The acquisition was funded by Greencoat Renewables €250m credit facility

Greencoat buys Wexford windfarm

Joe Doyle, Owner, Donnybrook Fair and Chris Martin, CEO, Musgrave at Donnybrook Fair, Donnybrook, Dublin

Donnybrook Fair to be acquired by Musgraves

ReActiv8 is a device Mainstay is developing to treat chronic lower back pain

Mainstay Medical trial remains on track

Bob Etchingham, Applegreen CEO, said first half performance had been robust, notwithstanding the difficult trading conditions caused by the exceptional weather in March

Applegreen confident of prospects for 2018

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Fewer than half of all workers have an occupational or private pension to supplement their state pension

6 things you need to know about starting a pension

An additional 22,000 people took up private health insurance policies last year bringing the total insured to 2.174 million at the end of 2017

Health insurance; no switching, no saving

The maximum saving on the scheme is €495

How to save with the cycle-to-work scheme

Two of Netflix's plans allow subscribers to view content on multiple screens at the same time

Does your home need more than one Netflix subscription?

Travel insurance is not just about medical bills

What's on your travel insurance checklist?

Virtually all Irish used car imports are coming from the UK

Buying a car in the UK - is it worth it?

A credit card can be a high-interest burden or a free loan - it all depends on how you use it

Making your credit card work for you

Unions have threatened more strike action at the airline in the weeks to come

What I need to know if my Ryanair flight is cancelled

When we refer to vulture funds, what we're essentially talking about are various forms of private equity firms and pension funds

So, a vulture fund bought your mortgage, what's next?

Bitcoins are created by a process known as mining

Do you know what a Bitcoin is? Will Goodbody explains

The 2017 Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse

There are no racing certainties on the stock market

Small changes in your banking habits can make a big dent in the fees you pay

Ten clever ways to reduce your bank charges

Analysis & Comment.

Many unknowns remain about broadband plan

Analysis and Comment

Facebook has built a large new data centre in Clonee, Co Meath

Inside Facebook's Clonee data centre

Will iPhone launch set Apple on road to next trillion?

How the US corporation tax regime helps US business compete

Business Analysis

Brexit: Slow Death of Chequers, or a Cliff Hanger Deal?

Brexit talks.

Minister Simon Coveney said the backstop deal has been turned into a 'green and orange' issue

DUP cannot have a veto on backstop deal, says Coveney

In Salzburg the virtual met the literal, and the Jenga tower collapsed

Salzburg: How chronic misreading took Brexit to brink

Analysis and Comment

British politics - plenty of dissent to go round

Analysis and Comment

Compromise with UK on Brexit is still possible - Tusk

Prime Time - Cardiac Care, Brexit

Primetime Documents

More Brexit talks

Morning Ireland business.

Venture capital firms invested €453m in technology and science firms in the first six months of the year, Sarah-Jane Larkin tells Adam Maguire

First fall in venture capital funding since 2011

John Harty, from Korn Ferry, tells Adam Maguire that while Ireland is going in the right direction there is more work to be done

Ireland still lagging on board gender diversity

Adam Maguire talks to two Enterprise Ireland-supported startups at the Ploughing Championships

60 EI-supported startups exhibiting at Ploughing

Microsoft Ireland managing director Cathriona Hallahan

Microsoft Ireland seeking to grow engineering expertise

Paul O'Kane, chief communications officer with the DAA, tells Petula Martyn that Dublin Airport's success brings its own challenges

Dublin Airport sees busiest ever August as capacity up

Storyful's global chief creative officer Lisa McDonald tells Adam Maguire the company is operating in a very different environment than when it started

Storyful launches new version of its Newswire platform

Jamie White, of Start Summit, tells Adam Maguire about this weekend's event at Dublin Castle

Start Summit aims to inspire early stage entrepreneurs

CPL Resources' chief financial officer Lorna Conn tells Adam Maguire that the company is seeing 25% growth in its 'flexible talent' division

CPL taking advantage of shift in skills in demand

David Collins, COO of Great National Hotels and Resorts, tells Adam Maguire the threat of Brexit does pose challenges to the tourism sector on both sides of the Irish Sea

Great National Hotels to merge with UK rival

Founder and Managing Director Jack Teeling said 2018 is a 'key year' for Teeling

Turnover up as Teeling prepares to sell its own whiskey

Kieran Rumley, from Love Irish Food, tells Petula Martyn that Britain's impending exit from the European Union is a major threat to Irish foods firms

Love Irish Food warns of Brexit threat to Irish firms

Dave Murphy, the CEO of PM Group, tells Petula Martyn that UK companies in high tech sectors are slow to invest because of Brexit

PM Group still positive about UK despite Brexit threat

Technology Headlines.

The iPhone Xs Max has a 6.5

Review: iPhone Xs

Sky is at centre of a bidding battle between Fox, which already owns 39% of it, and US cable giant Comcast

Sky takeover fight to be settled by rare auction

Jack Ma said Alibaba can no longer meet its promise to create 1 million jobs in the US due to US-China trade tensions

Alibaba says US-China trade war ends US jobs promise

The SME Digital Health Index finds that nearly three quarters of businesses polled have websites, but just 3 in 10 can take orders on those sites

Only three in ten SMEs can take orders through websites

Eir says it is currently investigating the cause of the problem and hopes to have it resolved soon

Eir says technical issues affecting webmail service

Elon Musk had surprised investors on August 7 with his plan to take Tesla private

Musk statement on taking Tesla private to be probed

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was speaking at the opening of the data summit in Dublin

Ireland on way to being Europe tech capital - Varadkar

Minister for Communications Denis Naughten said the move represented a landmark day

Consortium submits tender for National Broadband Plan

National Broadband Plan

Eir's contact centres had been managed and provided by staff of Indian technology firm, HCL Technologies up to now

CWU to ballot HCL members on 'derisory' packages

Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger on Elon Musk's space transportation company

SpaceX's first private passenger is Japan's Maezawa

Oracle is a late entrant to the cloud business and has been playing catch up with rivals

Oracle's first-quarter revenue misses estimates

Elon Musk reports Tesla 'delivery logistics hell'

Musk says Tesla now in 'delivery logistics hell'

Business features.

Dublin Airport's upgrade plan 25 years on

Business Highlights

Could the financial crash happen again?

Business Highlights

What will happen to cross-border shopping after Brexit?

Business Highlights

How the shopping trolley changed the world

Business Highlights

What lessons did Ireland really learn from the recession?

How airports are smarter than you think

Business Highlights

What's the future of urban living?

Business Highlights

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