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Bids for internet giant Yahoo are due on April 18

Daily Mail parent in talks on Yahoo bid

The UK's Daily Mail is in talks with potential partners to mount a joint bid for Yahoo's internet assets.

SuperValu has 221 stores across the country and plans to open five new stores this year

SuperValu reports sales of €2.6 billion for 2015

Supermarket group SuperValu has reported sales of €2.6 billion in 2015 and it said it now has 25% of the total market share.

Business • 22 Feb 16

Alibaba said its net income reached $1.93 billion, or 76 cents per share, in the third quarter

Alibaba delivers on quarterly revenue

Strong Christmas sales helped e-commerce giant Alibaba beat forecasts with a 32% rise in third-quarter revenue, but it was not immune from China's slowdown.

Business • 28 Jan 16

Advertisements should make clear that they are sponsored marketing messages to provide perspective on how information should be weighed, according to the FTC

Calls for distinction between online news and ads

With marketers creating online ads that are meant to blend in as real news stories, US regulators are trying to make sure internet users are able to differentiate between the two.

Business • 23 Dec 15

77% of people use fixed broadband compared with 38% who use mobile broadband, CSO figures show

85% of households have access to internet - CSO

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that about 85% of households had access to the internet at home in 2015, up from 82% last year.

Business • 16 Dec 15

Paddy Power said it expects its full year operating profit will see a mid to high single digit percentage increase above 2014

Paddy Power reaffirms full year profits guidance

Paddy Power has said that trading in the months from July to November has been in line with expectations after a very strong first half performance.

Business • 17 Nov 15

Alibaba has reported a stronger-than-expected 32% rise in second-quarter revenue today

Alibaba beats expectations with 32% revenue jump

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding today reported a stronger-than-expected 32% rise in second-quarter revenue.

Business • 27 Oct 15

H&M planning to extend e-commerce to another nine markets including Ireland and Japan in the next year

H&M sales recover in September after weak August

H&M said sales rebounded in September after unseasonably warm weather prompted the world's second-biggest fashion retailer to report its weakest monthly sales growth in over two years for August.

Business • 24 Sep 15

Ryanair has advised customers to check in for their flights today to avoid any issues

Ryanair site, mobile app to go offline for upgrade

Ryanair’s website and mobile app will go offline for five hours from tomorrow evening, affecting users’ ability to check in to flights or make new bookings.

Business • 10 Aug 15

Etsy has become a marketplace for people looking to sell craft products online

Etsy's losses double on higher ad spending

Crafts shopping website operator Etsy’s quarterly loss doubled due to higher marketing expenses and the company said these costs would only increase in the current quarter.

Business • 05 Aug 15

Twitter has been struggling to add users to its service

Twitter revenue up despite sluggish user growth

Twitter has reported a loss of $137 million in the recently-ended quarter on revenue that jumped 61% to more than half a billion dollars.

Business • 29 Jul 15

Bwin accepted a £900m bid from 888 Holdings earlier this month

Betting firm GVC ups bid for Bwin

Online gambling firm GVC Holdings has raised its offer for Bwin.party Digital Entertainment to about £1 billion, topping a recently-accepted bid from 888 Holdings.

Business • 27 Jul 15

Facebook is the most common platform for photo-sharing

Parents warned over publishing images of children

Researchers have claimed that some parents are sharing more than 900 images of their children online before the children's fifth birthday, despite many not checking their social network privacy settings.

News • 26 May 15

The service is currently available in 37 locations in the US, Canada and the UK

Handy way found to get rid of rodents

An online based cleaning service, co-founded by Irishman Oisin Hanrahan, is using its app to offer London home owners with mice problems the chance to foster a cat for free, in order to get rid of rodent invaders.

Business • 27 Apr 15

Deliveroo promises to deliver food in around 32 minutes on average

Online food delivery service Deliveroo launches in Dublin

Online based food delivery service, Deliveroo, has officially launched in Dublin, with plans to create more than 50 jobs.

Business • 20 Apr 15

Full-year underlying pretax profit rose to £54.8m at pizza delivery chain

Online demand boosts profits at Domino's Pizza

Bundle promotions and an increasingly popular app helped Domino's Pizza serve up over 1.4 million pizzas a week in Britain and Ireland last year.

Business • 26 Feb 15

Ladbroke's operating profit fell to £125.4m for 2014

Ladbrokes sticks with dividend as profits fall

Bookies chain Ladbrokes said today it intended to maintain its dividend in 2015, as it posted a 9% fall in annual profit.

Business • 26 Feb 15

Twitter has been under pressure as its revenue growth lagged behind the likes of Facebook

Twitter's revenue doubles but user growth slows

Twitter has reported its revenue nearly doubled in the final three months of last year, but user growth fell short of analyst expectations.

Business • 06 Feb 15

M&S reports its 14th consecutive quarterly decline in general merchandise sales

M&S's Christmas spoiled by online delivery woes

Marks & Spencer posted a worse than expected 5.8% drop in underlying sales of clothing, gifts and homeware in its Christmas quarter, exacerbated by online delivery problems.

Business • 08 Jan 15

Next announces a 50 pence special dividend for shareholders

Next full price sales up nearly 3%

Next signalled brighter prospects for UK retailers today with a solid rise in Christmas sales, especially online, without resorting to the discounting.

Business • 30 Dec 14

M&S.com sales fell 6.3% in the first half to September 27

M&S shoppers face longer wait for online orders

Marks & Spencer admitted today it had been forced to extend delivery times for online orders as a new distribution centre has struggled to cope with heavy Christmas demand.

Business • 08 Dec 14

Ladbrokes has been struggling to keep pace with William Hill in the growing UK online gambling market

Ladbrokes begins search to replace CEO Glynn

British bookmaker Ladbrokes said it would begin a search to replace current chief executive Richard Glynn after his five-year stint at the helm.

Business • 03 Dec 14

ING said it would invest around €200m in its IT systems between 2015 and 2017

ING cuts 1,700 jobs as part of digital push

Dutch bank ING is to scrap 1,700 jobs over the next three years as part of an online banking push.

Business • 25 Nov 14

Twitter has made a number of tweaks to try to increase user engagement and attract new customers

Twitter shares soar on back of improved user data

Twitter halted a slowdown in user-growth in the second quarter with the help of product tweaks and services built around the summer's World Cup, assuaging concerns for now that the online messaging service had peaked.

Business • 30 Jul 14

The company claims to have over 100 cleaners using the service in Dublin already

Online cleaner hire service launches in Dublin

A British based online booking service for cleaners, co-founded by a former Irish management consultant, has launched in Dublin.

Business • 07 Jul 14