UK retailer, John Lewis Partnership, said the weak pound and higher costs will squeeze its profit this year, in the latest sign of the deepening crisis on Britain’s shopping streets.

Nike shares declined the most in almost six weeks after the firm squelched any hope of a quick turnaround at its ailing US operations.

England’s elite soccer clubs are facing resistance from smaller rivals to their plan to grab a bigger share of the more than £1bn (€840m) a year the Premier League gets for international media rights.

US president Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on e-commerce giant Amazon, saying the company is "doing great damage to tax paying retailers".

Russian billionaire, Mikhail Fridman’s L1 Retail investment vehicle has agreed to buy British retailer, Holland & Barrett, for £1.77bn (€2.01bn), in its first acquisition, betting on continued growth and expansion abroad for the health foods chain.

Apple and computing giant Dell will join a Foxconn-led consortium bidding for Toshiba’s highly-prized chip unit, the head of the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer has said.

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Shopping online on Amazon.com is “a real threat” to Irish stores because it attracts a lot of business, a survey of Irish retailers by PwC has found. 

Five months after introducing its digital assistant, Google is sharing the feature with Android partners, hoping the service can boost its odds to win customers from Apple’s iPhone.

Google has taken over from Apple as the world's most valuable brand in an annual ranking amid signs the technology giant has "reached saturation point".

Sky plans to introduce a loyalty scheme to stem a rise in customer defections that, together with a jump in the cost of soccer broadcasting rights, cast a shadow over first-half results yesterday.

McDonald’s has moved its non-US tax base to the UK, ditching Luxembourg where its tax arrangements are under attack from EU regulators and critics of corporate tax avoidance.

Apple says it has been buying Apple chargers and cables labelled as genuine on Amazon.com and has found nearly 90% of them to be counterfeit.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has cornered online retail, jumped ahead in artificial intelligence with voice activated speaker, Echo, carved out a powerful spot in the media industry and is even dabbling in spaceflight. He may be just getting warmed up, writes Alexander Nazaryan.

US treasury secretary Jacob J. Lew is set to meet with EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager this week as she prepares to deliver a final verdict on a probe into Apple’s tax affairs in Ireland.

If you just can't wait another two weeks for Uncharted 4 to arrive, you're in luck - the game has been released early by some retailers.

PlayStation VR isn't set to arrive until October 2016 but anticipation is already reaching fever pitch. The launch bundle went up for pre order on Amazon just yesterday and stock was completely depleted in four minutes flat.

Private space travel company Blue Origin expects to launch its first human test flights in 2017, company founder Jeff Bezos has said.

EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager tempered expectations of a speedy ruling on Apple’s tax affairs with the Government here.

A lengthy legal battle could lie ahead for the Government if European authorities rule against it in relation to its tax dealings with US tech giant Apple.

The Hitman series has been running since 2000, giving millions of players around the world the chance to garrote folks a playground full of digital death.

Apple’s disappointing earnings matter to more than just the investors who hold its shares.

For years, I have waited for postcodes, so that Ireland PLC could finally take its place among the coded nations of the Earth. No more, I thought, will I have to worry about purchasing from Amazon.com and adding a fictitious post code.

Online retailer Amazon.com yesterday launched a new marketplace that will connect individual businesses with suppliers, giving it access to a fast-growing market worth more than $8.2tn (€7.4tn) in the US.

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to put a lot more “book” into Facebook.

Amazon.com’s conflict with the publisher Hachette Book Group is over, but the restoration of normal service will take at least a few days.

Apple forecast a strong holiday quarter after a better-than-expected 16% jump in iPhone sales, and the strongest growth in Mac computer shipments in years helped the company surpass Wall Street’s targets.

BlackBerry’s turnaround is gaining momentum after demand for chief executive John Chen’s first major new device outstripped supply and the company reported a smaller loss than estimated.

Alibaba Group Holding, the e-commerce company started in 1999 with $60,000 by Jack Ma, yesterday cemented its status as a symbol of China’s economic emergence by raising $21.8bn (€16.9bn) in a US initial public offering.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has unveiled a new smartphone called Fire Phone.

As the wealth gap globally widens, a political backlash has begun among an increasingly militant public, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Competition watchdogs ordered Luxembourg to hand over details of tax breaks for businesses after they said the Grand Duchy was hindering a state-aid probe spanning several EU nations.

A batch of negative company news gave US investors something to fret over.

Amazon.com is teaming up with Samsung and other media companies to bring “4K” ultra high-definition television to the masses.

Some 365 new jobs have been announced by 10 companies during day one of the Web Summit.

The tranquility of Glen Park public library, in San Francisco, was disrupted last week by half a dozen FBI agents descending on the science-fiction section, where nerds congregate to read their emails on the free Wi-Fi.

Amazon is refreshing its line-up of tablet computers with new devices called Kindle Fire HDX, which are significantly faster and lighter than the previous generation.

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