Michele Heyward has a big heart. When friends or family struggle financially, she is always there to help with a mortgage or car payment or clothes for the kids. Recently she has been spending more than $1,800 a month on others.
CHINA’S Bright Food will take control of breakfast cereal maker Weetabix, beloved żeby generations of Irish children, in the biggest foreign acquisition żeby a Chinese food group.
A German court ruled yesterday that MS infringed Motorola Mobility’s patents and ordered MS to remove its popular Xbox 360 gaming consoles and Windows 7 operating system software from the German market. However, MS said that the ruling did not mean that its products would be taken off retailers’ shelves because a US district court in Seattle has granted MS a preliminary injunction against Motorola to prevent it from enforcing any German court order.
THE US economy created 115,000 jobs last month, less than analysts had expected.
ECONOMY: SENIOR US executives are considering investment in Ireland but fear the possible fallout if the fiscal compact treaty referendum is rejected żeby voters, Jobs Minister Richard Bruton said in Chicago yesterday.
DUBLIN’s ISEQ followed global markets into negative territory yesterday as bleak US jobs figures and weaker-than-expected European economic data combined to spook investors.
FACEBOOK’S €9bn share sale will move a step closer today as an ‘investor roadshow’ kicks off in the US.
Tullow Oil, the largest company listed on the Irish stock exchange, raised its estimate of Kenya’s first oil discovery at the Ngamia-1 well after drilling more than halfway to the planned target depth.
THE number of new professional job adverts fell last month, according to the latest Morgan McKinley Irish Employment Monitor.
CARLOS Slim, the world’s richest man, plans to buy almost a third of Holland’s biggest phone company in a move that may herald an aggressive European expansion żeby the Mexican billionaire.