When online bookselling began to dominate the market in the early 2000s, many were predicting that the bookshop would simply die away. Now, however, Irish independent book shops are not only managing to survive. In fact, they are flourishing. Ahead of Independent Book Shop week, we spoke to several independent booksellers on how they’re surviving in the Amazon age, how they differentiate themselves and the joys of a good book.

Fast-food chains rarely wade into politics. And then there's Saudi Arabia, where McDonald's and Domino's just pledged their allegiance to the country's new crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.

Thousands of workers face unemployment as retailers struggle to adapt to online shopping. But even as e-commerce grows, it isn’t absorbing these workers.

Women working in Cambodian factories supplying some of the world’s best-known sportswear brands are suffering from repeated mass faintings linked to conditions. Over the past year more than 500 workers in four factories supplying to Nike, Puma, Asics and VF Corporation were hospitalised. The most serious episode, recorded over three days in November, saw 360 workers collapse. The brands confirmed the incidents...

How do people invent catchy real estate agency names? Some use real estate business name generator. Others, creative real estate names pass a long way before they see the world. Which is better?

A seller of dietary supplements is succeeding by promising power to the aggrieved.

With a net worth of $84.7 billion, Bezos has made a number of investments and acquisitions. Here is a snapshot of the empire.

There’s no shortage of things to be mad about in late capitalism. Pretty high on the list, though, is the Eat, Pray, Love brand of pseudoscience promoted by Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop.

A tiny Internet service provider has sued Comcast, alleging that the cable giant and its hired contractors cut the smaller company's wires in order to take over its customer base.

Ford is shifting production of its next-generation Focus from Mexico to China, planning to import the small car to the United States. While other U.S. companies such as Apple have been manufacturing products in China, Ford's decision to source the Focus from the country in East Asia is likely to draw more attention than the others. That's because this marks the first time that the carmaker will make a vehicle in China targeted at U.S. consumers.

Foxconn says that it is still planning to set up U.S. manufacturing plants in ‘several’ states, in a deal worth $10B. Some $7B of that investment is earmarked for display production, with the balance allocated to a mix of other products. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou initially said that the company was looking at midwest states, before later naming seven states as candidates...

Wall Street is fretting that the U.S. auto industry is heading for a downturn, but for thousands of workers at General Motors Co factories in the United States, the hard times are already here.

Major U.S. corporations such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and General Motors Co (GM.N) have become some of America’s biggest buyers of renewable energy, driving growth in an industry seen as key to helping the United States cut carbon emissions.

The company’s co-founder had been under increasing pressure, and several major investors demanded that he resign from the company immediately.

The largest coal mining company in the world has announced it will close 37 mines because they are no longer economically viable. Coal India, which produces around 82 per cent of India's coal, said the mines would be decommissioned by March 2018. The closures, of around 9 per cent of the state-run firm's sites, will reportedly save around 8,000,000,000 rupees (£98m).

When three activists investigating labour abuses at a factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes in China were arrested, the brand stayed silent for a week and then attempted to distance itself from the controversy by saying it had been months since its products were manufactured there.

A recording of an internal briefing at Apple earlier this month obtained by The Outline sheds new light on how far the most valuable company in the world will go to prevent leaks about new products.

A former CenturyLink Inc. employee claims she was fired for blowing the whistle on the telecommunications company's high-pressure sales culture that left customers paying millions of dollars for accounts they didn't request, according to a lawsuit filed this week in Arizona state superior court. The company's shares fell the most in six weeks on the news, while the shares of merger partner Level 3 Communications Inc. also dropped sharply.

The Conservative Party -- and free market ideologues -- have waged a long war on "safety culture," insisting it was a nonsensical, incoherent regulation that acted as a drag on every business except no-win/no-fee lawyers, who exploited these rules to victimise poor corporations with punishing lawsuits.

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The public cloud market is maturing, which is another way of saying the biggest companies are getting bigger while the smaller ones are shrinking or disappearing.

Canadian regulator the CRTC has announced that Canada will soon formally ban not only locked phones, but unlocking fees. According to an announcement by the agency, the rule change will take effect on December 1st, 2017, after which point wireless carriers may not even sell locked devices. The agency's move is an update to Canada's Wireless Code, which dictates consumer rights and the rules governing the nation's wireless carriers. In addition to banning locked devices, a rule update will modify the trial period after purchase, letting subscribers now cancel their contracts within 15 days...

George Clooney is selling his tequila company Casamigos to Diageo for as much as $1 billion, the company said Wednesday. "If you asked us four years ago if we had a billion dollar company, I don't think we would have said yes," Clooney told CNBC via email. "This reflects Diageo's belief in our company and our belief in Diageo. But we're not going anywhere. We'll still be very much a part of Casamigos. Starting with a shot tonight. Maybe two."

McDonald's shares hit an all-time high on Tuesday as Wall Street expects sales to increase from new digital ordering kiosks that will replace cashiers in 2,500 restaurants. Cowen raised its rating on McDonald's shares to outperform from market perform because of the technology upgrades, which are slated for the fast-food chain's restaurants this year. McDonald's shares rallied 26 percent this year through Monday compared to the S&P 500's 10 percent return.

How the economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry. By Jiayang Fan.

Steven Clifford knows—for over 20 years, he helped craft some extremely generous executive-compensation packages.

Just a quick heads up, high school students. You might want to save your job application efforts for retail gigs, because the fast food space is about to be invaded by robots.

There’s something new about President Trump's real estate sales since he won the GOP nomination. More buyers are secretive LLCs, obscuring their ownership, according to a USA TODAY investigation of every deal.

Retail will never be the same as the two giant retailers battle over the merger of online and brick-and-mortar shopping.

It’s now official. After Yahoo shareholder approval last week, Verizon today announced that it has finally closed its acquisition of Yahoo, which it plans to combine with its AOL assets into a subsidiary called Oath, covering some 50 media brands (including TechCrunch) and 1 billion people globally. It will be led by Tim Armstrong, who was the CEO of AOL before this.

When Samantha Haskell took over a bookstore in Maine, she looked to local farms for commercial inspiration.

The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout Open Water Power (OWP) aims to greatly improve the range of unpiloted underwater vehicles (UUVs), helping them better perform in a range of applications under the sea. By Rob Matheson.

Red Hat shares jumped more than 9% in after-hours trading Tuesday following a quarterly earnings report that beat expectations and raised projections for the year, sending prices to levels unseen since the dot-com boom went bust.

United Airlines has an extensive series of reminders and warnings to make sure you don't accidentally buy a Basic Economy ticket.

Twitch, the popular game-streaming site owned by Amazon, just inked a deal with one of the most popular game developers to broadcast a host of game..