By adopting narrow grounds for impeaching the president, Pelosi and House members wanted simple charges they could easily explain to constituents, writes Elizabeth Drew

We are living in late-stage capitalism, which sounds a lot like stage four cancer. There is no stage five.

Why do we venerate the hoarding of money? Broadly, we regard hoarding as a bad thing. To call someone a hoarder is to imply psychological disturbance and a living space that needs a good clearout before it gets made into a cheap documentary. Unless you hoard money. Having too much of that is revered.

What do the French and American governments, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Tesla’s Elon Musk and Virgin’s Richard Branson have in common?

Amazon faces a full-blown EU probe as the region’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager prepares for a summer finale to her five-year crackdown on US technology giants.

Amazon faces a full-blown EU probe as the region’s competition chief Margrethe Vestager prepares for a summer finale to her five-year crackdown on US technology giants.

Jess McCarthy is originally from the southwest of England and owns and runs Midleton Books and Fermoy Books in Co Cork with her husband Ronan.

Low Earth orbit satellites have the potential to provide broadband at gigabit speed globally, and they could also play a role in Ireland’s National Broadband Plan.

Globalisation and other factors have given US corporations market dominance. This must be challenged, writes Raghuram Rajan.

Proving that age is just a number, Berkshire Hathaway chief executive, Warren Buffett, 88, and vice-chairman, Charlie Munger, 95, answered questions for seven hours at the company’s AGM this weekend.

In Amazon’s warehouses in the UK, ambulances were called, not 60 times, but 600 times, writes Terry Prone

In Beijing, it’s often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself. Like, way cheaper.

Amazon boss Jeff Bezos has finalised his divorce from wife MacKenzie, giving her a separate stake in the online shopping giant.

Pre-tax profits at the main Irish arm of online retail giant Amazon increased by 30.5% to €39.46m last year, as revenues also soared.

Because everyone I meet is more digitally adept than me (Tumblr? Twitch? Are you making these up?) I need to hang on to my occasional victories.

Some of the metrics we use to measure our world — distance, speed, population, wealth — stretch our capacity to understand.

Boosting the income-earning capacity of the lower paid through enhancing skills and promoting the creation of enterprises is the way to go, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The Central Bank’s Philip Lane and fiscal watchdog Seamus Coffey have warned about the many risks facing the economy. They should add online shopping to the list, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The earnings season has resulted in some dramatic contrasts in fortunes among leaders in the technology sector.

Amazon continues to move towards becoming one of the world's first trillion dollar companies as it reported a 39% sales increase in its latest financial results.

Finding billionaires in Silicon Valley isn’t hard. But tracking down members of the three-comma club at Apple is a less fruitful endeavour.

International business appeared almost impervious to the huge political tensions in Korea and the Gulf, as global shares soared and the rich got richer, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Chef to the stars Todd Hall is bringing a taste of Mexico Leeside, writes John Daly

A young academic is challenging the effectiveness of US competition law in controlling the rise of a new generation of corporations, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

Amazon has opened a hunt for a second home, pledging to spend more than $5bn to build another headquarters in North America.

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

Amazon is quickly ramping up the billions of dollars a year it spends on creating and licensing TV shows and films, indicating the retailer plans to be in show business for the long haul.

Amazon has reported a sales increase of 25% for the second quarter of 2017, on the day founder Jeff Bezos briefly became the world's richest man.

As Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos jockey for the designation of world’s wealthiest man, the Seattle billionaires are united behind at least one local venture. They’re both investors in a trucking logistics startup that competes with Uber.

A Shannon, Co Clare-based company specialising in drone flying research, aims to be at the forefront of an industry predicted to be involved in areas as diverse as agriculture, rescue and even food and merchandise delivery.

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, posted a tweet last week looking for philanthropic ideas. The thought of having billions to manage freaks me out but after a cold shower and some meditation I settled in sorting out Jeff’s request.

Amazon chief Jeff Bezos wants to give away some of his fortune, and is asking the public to help him do it.

Growth saw the firm, which Jeff Bezos first created in his garage, expand into other items and soon the company established itself as the market leader in online stores.

Online retail giant Amazon saw a 23% increase in sales in the first quarter of 2017, the technology giant has announced.

The one thing you can be certain of is that the rich will get richer on his watch, writes Fergus Finlay.