by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
Vodafone Ireland has continued to haemorrhage customers, according to its latest interim report, with 29,000 mobile users moving away from the world’s second largest mobile operator in the last three months. The announcement follows news in July that its...
by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
Tullow Oil Plc, a U.K. explorer, will slash capital expenditure next year and focus on onshore searches in East Africa and developing existing wells in Ghana. The exploration and appraisal budget will be cut to $300 million from $1 billion, London-based Tullow said...
by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
Cavan-based insulation maker Kingpsan has agreed to pay C$154m (€109m) for a unit of Canadian group Vicwest that further extends its footprint in North America. Kingspan, which is headed by chief executive Gene Murtagh, said that its acquisition of Vicwest’s...
by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
As the very name tells you, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing this week was mostly about business. And for good reason. Cross-Pacific trade — especially between Asia and the U.S. — is what made countries like China, Japan and South Korea...
by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
China, already at the centre of world trade, plans to spend billions of euro to revive intercontinental land routes and develop maritime links to expand commerce and give it more weight in a freight system dominated by European shipping lines. President Xi Jinping set...
by WTCD | Nov 12, 2014 | News
Breakdown in 2012 left 600,000 deprived of basic services over 28-day period. Ulster Bank has been fined a record €3.5 million by the Central Bank of Ireland and reprimanded over the serious failings of its IT systems in June and July 2012, which resulted in about...