Beyonce won top honours at MTV’s Video Music Awards in New York, and rapper Drake professed his “love” for Rihanna, who collected a lifetime achievement award.

The IDA is likely to renew its push for more resources, to help it accentuate its promotion of Ireland as an investment location, when it formally meets Jobs and Enterprise Minister Mary Mitchell-O’Connor in the coming weeks to review its strategy and performance.

The European Space Agency is set to double its Irish workforce, creating more than 1,000 space technology jobs over the next four years.

The deserts can be transformed if everyone makes one change. That was the “One Vision advanced at One: The Alltech Ideas Conference, in Kentucky last month.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O’Connor, is hoping to secure a further €10m of exchequer funding to keep Microfinance Ireland afloat beyond 2017.

Opponents fear TTIP trade-offs with the US will lead to a race to the bottom on standards — particularly on food safety, climate, and workers’ rights. Sorcha Ní Coileáin reports.

AS THOSE hoary old dinosaurs of the Irish political theatre, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, continue to play at Civil War politics, while at the same time inching imperceptibly towards a facile minority government, the ship of State continues to drift aimlessly without a firm hand on the tiller. 

Apple celebrates its 40th birthday today having risen from a three-man project in a California garage to the most valuable company in the world, estimated to be worth over $700bn (€615bn).

Though Apple is one of the biggest and most admired companies in the world, it has never been far from controversy, clashing with rival companies and the authorities down the years.

Three significant days in the life of Apple’s Steve Jobs.

Especially since his death, Steve Jobs has become a god to many in IT and design. As a new film on his life is to be released, Michael Moynihan meets up with an Irishman who worked closely with the former Apple head

Twitter is embracing Jack Dorsey as its chief executive in the hopes that its once-spurned co-founder can hatch a plan to expand the short messaging service’s audience and end nearly a decade of financial losses.

There have already been a few projects dealing with the life of sometime Apple CEO Steve Jobs, but this one looks like it might also be a bit of a masterpiece.

Apple’s iPad Pro is a larger-than-life tablet; it is the same height as an iPad Air, but offers a 12.9-inch display. It also comes with a stylus, something that the late CEO Steve Jobs criticised years ago.

Kerryman Michael Fassbender’s role as a villain in the latest X-Men movie helped propel accumulated profits at the movie star’s UK firm past the €720,000 mark last year.

Apple-man Steve Jobs passed away in 2011 and left behind a legacy of famous devices beginning with 'i' and an only slightly less famous series of feuds with most of the major players in Apple.

Apple CEO Tim Cook last night channelled Apple founder Steve Jobs to announce the tech giant’s new music streaming service.

In the first trailer for Steve Jobs, we get to see Michael Fassbender wearing the iconic turtleneck.

A new Low Pay Commission will report back to the Government on changes to the €8.65 minimum wage by July, ministers have said.

Katherine Waterston has been cast as the female lead in the Steve Jobs biopic.

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions is welcoming the Cabinet decision to legislate for workers whose employers don't recognise unions.

In the latest of embarrassing emails to leak online from Sony, studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin exchanged jokes about what president Barack Obama’s favourite films might be, focusing mostly on films starring and by African Americans.

Angelina Jolie has been branded a “minimally talented spoiled brat” by movie producer Scott Rudin, according to Sony Pictures hackers.

Deepening divisions are emerging in the weakened Coalition because of disagreements on banking matters and tax reform.

Michael Fassbender is reportedly in early talks for the role of Steve Jobs.

Apple CEO Tim Cook says he’s proud to be gay.

Changing a few board members at Irish Water will not allow the Cabinet to wash it hands of the mess that it has created. It must tackle the bonus issue and fast, writes Shaun Connolly

The body representing small and medium businesses across the country has said Jobs Minister Richard Bruton’s description of Irish Water as a "commercial" operation is "disingenuous and crass nonsense".

The Minister for Jobs, Richard Bruton, is in Waterford today for a number of events aimed at promoting jobs in the South East region.

Parents need to sit down and play their kids’ video games if they want to protect them, says Arlene Harris

The Government must remain focussed on the goal of repairing the public finances in the budget, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council has stressed.

I ONCE spent a month waiting for Bono. Every lunch of October 1981, I sidled into Golden Discs, on Cork’s Patrick Street, in search of the new U2 album.

Apple’s stock has touched a new high, reflecting investors’ renewed faith in CEO Tim Cook’s ability to outwit the competition and expand the technological hit factory built by the late Steve Jobs.

Ireland will not surrender to international pressure over its lucrative corporation tax rate, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton pledged.

IDA Ireland is hopeful that 2014 will rank as the fourth consecutive year of record investment and net job creation among its client companies.

Bausch & Lomb are to invest in upgrading its production systems in its Waterford facility.

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

Apple will make the most expensive acquisition in its history, after confirming a deal to buy Dr Dre's Beats Electronics for $3bn.