India remains the world's largest mobile market by volume, with around 25 billion app downloads a year. Annual in-app purchase revenue passed $1 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $1.25 billion by the end of 2026.
Eoin Tonge has revealed how Primark, which trades as Penneys in Ireland, is making female shoppers the linchpin for a revamped offering designed to re-energise the iconic chain across its international markets.
"These cities in Texas do great on all metrics: robust job markets, good amenities, and relatively affordable housing," Asad Khan, a senior economist with Redfin, stated.
For most companies, there's roughly a 12-month period where the business is at its peak value, and then it crashes out. The companies that capture generational returns are often the ones where someone spies that moment instead of assuming the good times will get even better.
The ESRI revealed in its recently published quarterly economic commentary that the fall in the number of technology workers in Ireland was concentrated almost entirely among female workers in the sector.
Europe's freelance market has been expanding steadily, but the post-layoff acceleration is notable. According to a 2024 report from Malt, the number of highly skilled freelancers in tech across the EU grew by 18% year-over-year, with a sharp uptick among professionals who had been in full-time roles for five or more years before making the switch.
Q: I recently took a redundancy package, and I am now job hunting. I've been told that ­LinkedIn is the place where I am most likely to find prospective employers, and have dutifully changed my avatar to "open for work". However, I have a feeling that Ireland is still all about "who you know", and I may do better by working my network of contacts. Is it worth paying for a full LinkedIn subscription, or what is your experience of modern job hunting?