Masters week is a time for the stars of golf to shine. But for some, the real fun begins after dark.

Stadiums are clearly the new silverware. The trouble with sport, see, is its unpredictability. From a business point of view, at least.

Private firm Anesco is building a hybrid solar and battery facility in Milton Keynes in England with its own capital, using no govenment subsidy.

A €1bn Texas-based cybersecurity company, Forcepoint, is to occupy two floors of Cork city centre’s new office block, 85 South Mall, intensifying the 21st-century tech corridor on the southern capital’s most traditional business, banking, commerce and services boulevard.

China’s Haotong Li was the shock leader at a late stage of Thursday’s first round at Augusta National until eventually a few shots slipped away.

US telecoms carrier AT&T has dropped plans to sell Chinese brand Huawei’s smartphones in the United States, dealing a setback to the No. 3 global phone maker’s expansion plans, according to news reports.

It’s been a year of weather extremes. Floods have killed thousands in India and across Asia. Record hurricanes have wreaked havoc across the Caribbean and the US. Fires, driven by drought, lay waste to large parts of Portugal and California. Closer to home, unprecedented

Rising bond yields and a string of weak company reports and forecasts pushed US stocks lower on Wednesday as major indexes retreated from their recent record highs.

Shares of Apple and some of its suppliers fell yesterday on signs that demand for the new iPhone 8 models isn’t as strong as anticipated while buyers await the release of the higher-end iPhone X.

US stock indexes made tiny gains today as news of several corporate deals helped lift the market.

The US House of Representatives has voted to block online privacy regulations issued during the final months of the Obama administration, a first step towards allowing internet providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers.

Seeking out new revenues, big phone firms at the Mobile World Congress are trying to loosen Google, Amazon and Facebook’s grip, write Eric Auchard and Sophie Sassard.

A late push helped US stocks finish higher after indexes spent most of the day lower.

Verizon Communications has said it would buy Yahoo’s core business for $4.48bn (€4.22bn), lowering its original offer by $350m in the wake of two massive cyber attacks at the internet company.

Stocks around the world continued their march higher on Monday, and US indexes again hit new highs.

Spain's Sergio Garcia led from start to finish to claim his 12th European Tour title, and first for three years, in impressive fashion in the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

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".

Enda Kenny is facing a growing backlash over claims he has “no plan” to cope with the escalating Brexit crisis and has “sat on his hands” as the situation unfolded.

Kenny accused of having ‘no discernible plan, vision or direction’.

The Dow Jones industrial average missed the 20,000 mark by a fraction of a point on Friday as US stock indexes rose after the government said wages jumped in December, but two other major indexes set records.

Two bodies found on the rural property of a South Carolina man linked to five other deaths were a couple who had a history of begging and had been buried there for nearly a year.

Samsung's crisis with its Galaxy Note 7 smartphone hit a new low on Monday as the company confirmed it has made changes to its output to ensure safety following reports that even its replacements for the fire-prone handsets were overheating.

Samsung has temporarily halted production of Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, it is reported.

Vodafone Group could benefit from a merger with Liberty Global, according to a report in Barron’s, which added the British telecommunications company’s shares could also be poised for a 33% rise.

AT&T has agreed to pay $7.75m (almost €7m) for letting scammers accused of running a drug ring bill consumers for fake directory assistance.

US telecommunications rivals Verizon and AT&T are set to go through to the third and final round of bidding in the auction for Yahoo’s core internet assets.

Having fundamentally changed almost every aspect of modern life with their innovations over the decades, technologists are increasingly looking to the heavens for their next challenge, writes Peter O’Dwyer

Dublin ‘Internet of Things’ company Asavie has partnered with tech giant EMC and network operator Vodafone to provide connectivity for the duo’s state-of-the-art testbed facility in Cork.

Operating profits more than doubled, to €7.1m, at Irish software firm Openet Telecom last year, new accounts show.

Pfizer is negotiating a 2%-3% break-up fee with Allergan that would be in line with most deals, according to sources, a sign of confidence such a merger could overcome regulatory hurdles.

Samsung Electronics has unveiled a new Galaxy Note phablet and a larger version of its curved-screen S6 edge smartphone, marking a fresh bid by the South Korean company to revive momentum in its handset business.

Apple and Samsung are working with the GSMA to kill off the traditional SIM card.

Samsung recently leaked everything that anyone would want to know about the Galaxy S6 Active. Everything apart from the release date, that is. A new teaser image indicates that we may hear about its release schedule very soon.

US telecommunications giant Verizon has confirmed its intention to buy AOL for $4.4bn (€3.9bn), turning the biggest US wireless carrier into a leading provider of content and video for the web and mobile phones.

Nokia is in talks to buy smaller telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent, a deal combining the industry’s two weakest players that is backed by the French government but could pose challenges in cutting costs.

In spite of his previous attempts to quell the public obsession with his ailing golf career, Tiger Woods is truly the only spark that ignites the interest of the general US public.

Britain’s electronic spying agency, in co-operation with the US National Security Agency, hacked into the networks of a Dutch company to steal codes that allow both governments to seamlessly eavesdrop on mobile phones worldwide, according to documents given to journalists by Edward Snowden.

Tommy Gilbert Jr has been arrested on suspicion of shooting Tommy Sr, a rich Wall St investor. How did such a gilded life corrode? asks Lynnley Browning

US stocks closed higher on Monday, keeping major indexes at record levels.

Irish software firm Openet last year returned to operating profit in spite of a dip in revenues to €95.44m.

One hundred new high-skill jobs are to be created in Co Westmeath.

Apple has revealed there were more than four million pre-orders of its new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in 24 hours, exceeding its initial pre-order supply.

Eircom has scotched talk of it being taken over by US telecommunications giant, AT&T, with management saying there is no truth in the rumour.