The European Commission plans to create a single European market for data, hoping that pooling the region’s deep industrial expertise will help build technology powerhouses to catch up with Silicon Valley and state-backed Chinese heavyweights.

Greencoat Renewables have acquired Killala Community Wind Farm in County Mayo.

Limerick brothers Jack and Nick Cotter have won the Engineers Ireland Innovative Student Engineer of the Year Award 2019, sponsored by Siemens, for their lamb handling system, the Cotter Crate.

Volkswagen and other carmakers have warned that trade tensions risk dragging the global economy into a recession as the fallout starts to hit consumers.

Britain’s messy divorce from the EU is weighing on hiring sentiment in the country due to uncertainty about whether it will leave with a deal, according to Adecco, a temporary staffing firm.

BMW’s second-quarter earnings fell by a fifth, hit by exchange rate moves and investments in manufacturing electric and hybrid cars to help meet stricter emissions limits.

Away from the dangerous Brexit soap opera, the EU has been reshuffling its pack of cards.

Though sceptical at first, Esther N McCarthy’s conversion to E-bikes has given her a brand new superpower

The future of automation in the workplace was glimpsed at the recent UCD Innovation Week, where 200 students from 26 countries met Pepper, a humanoid robot and the first in the world to read emotions and develop empathy.

Laptops with two screens, smart cooking, and Polaroid’s comeback star at show, writes Noel Campion

Bombardier is seeking investors for its aerospace businesses and considering a sale of some operations, according to sources, as a turnaround plan at the Canadian aircraft-maker faces pressure from potentially crippling US tariffs on its marquee jetliner.

Brexit may well hold hidden benefits for Irish trade, but the Government needs to work hard to

Ivanka Trump drew groans and hisses from an audience in Berlin as she defended her father's attitude towards women.

Most of the homes at Limeworth — whether self-build or otherwise — have deserved their ‘luxury’ description, writes Tommy Barker.

Subsidy costs for British offshore windfarms are likely to fall below that of new nuclear plants in next month’s UK government auction, the head of Siemens offshore wind turbines business has said.

German growth slowed less than predicted in the second quarter while Italian output unexpectedly stagnated, signalling diverging fortunes for two of the region’s biggest economies as they brace for any fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the EU.

After pumping more money into Europe’s equities than any time in history, last year’s buyers are being burned with some of the world’s worst returns.

It has been quite a week. Students of the dark arts of politics have been left with plenty to savour.

Sterling rose against the euro for the second successive day and global shares rallied from week-long lows, as markets tried to assess the potential long-term damage to the economies of the UK and the rest of Europe from the decision last week of British voters to quit the EU.

Concerns are growing in Berlin over barriers to foreign companies in China, Beijing’s muscular foreign policy, and its increased authoritarianism at home.

The head of a leading German think tank has attacked the purchase by the ECB which got under way yesterday of corporate bonds, saying the quantitative easing measures designed to boost the eurozone economy and which involve buying debt directly from big companies was “dangerous”.

Dyson has launched legal action against rivals Bosch and Siemens alleging that they are misleading consumers in behaviour akin to the Volkswagen scandal.

Kya deLongchamps finds that the march of technology is continuing to revolutionise the way in which we store our food, wash clothes and make a cuppa.

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The revelations about Volkswagen’s emissions fraud, added to recent scandals at Siemens and Deutsche Bank, show a German corporate establishment that is out of step with a society that is actively trying to atone for 20th-century sins, writes Leonid Bershidsy

Kya deLongchamps applies a cool clean eye to the latest and best in washers, fridge freezers and dishwashers and sifts best value from the varied offerings.

David Cameron’s general election campaign ran into its first setback within hours of his visit to Buckingham Palace to inform the Queen of the dissolution of parliament as a respected economic think tank challenged his claim that a Labour victory would result in tax rises of more than £3,000 (€4,100) for every working family.

The UK can overtake Germany to become Europe’s economic “powerhouse” by 2035, deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said yesterday.

Irish wind and solar energy company, Mainstream Renewable Power is set to develop a €2bn windfarm off the Scottish coast.

Thursday of last week, a gathering of building surveyors, QSs and estate agents in their professional body the SCSI heard that their attendance - of 1,250 diners- for a black-tie function was “a very good barometer of the growing confidence in the economy and our industry.”

More than 100 scientists will begin cutting-edge research into renewable energy technology at a new €15m research lab which is due to open in Cork harbour within months.

We all love the New Year scrum of sales and product launches, and domestic appliance-makers are shoulder to shoulder vying wildly for our attention. 

The Mater Private hospital in Cork will hold open interviews over Christmas to recruit over 25 nurses as part of its ongoing expansion.

Irish Water looks set to be a damper, smaller HSE, but hopefully not quite the omnishambles. But it truly is the quango that seems to contain all that is bad about Irish governance.

A €1.7m Government investment aims to turn 20 good research ideas into jobs with Irish and multinational employers.

Siemens, Europe’s largest engineering company, is close to finalising an agreement to sell its logistics and airports unit to a group led by billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, as it exits underperforming businesses, two people familiar with the talks said.

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Moscow: BP lost $849m (€617m) on its investment in OAO Rosneft yesterday, highlighting how its relationship with Russia’s state oil company may become awkward as the crisis in Ukraine develops.