A multi-millionaire British football club owner who is known to keep a deliberately low profile is this morning at the centre of Ireland’s Olympics ticket touting controversy alongside four other directors of one of his lucrative firms.

A court in Paris has ruled that Uber’s ride-hailing service may infringe French law and ordered the company to make changes to its popular mobile app-based service.

French fashion house Christian Lacroix today began insolvency proceedings after falling victim to the global recession.

THE Paris Commercial Court has ordered a French entrepreneur to pay €22,000 in damages and interest for having sent out a flood of unsolicited e-mail messages, or spam, the US online service provider AOL said yesterday.

The Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) has said the outcome of the lawsuit by LVMH against Morgan Stanley in France will have a "chilling effect" on investment research.