Statements about corporate values are so often full of guff

Lofty ideals can sound great on paper, but too many struggle to match reality

Facial imaging software detects 28 cases of welfare fraud in 2018

System ‘self-financing’ as value of fraudulent activity detected now over €4m – department

Post-Brexit blue British passports to be made in France

Move condemned by leading Brexiteers as a national humiliation

European financials buoyed by latest ECB funding drive

US markets in holding pattern ahead of Congress vote to dismantle Obamacare

European shares hit two-week low as banks, airlines tumble

Iseq closes lower with Bank of Ireland, Ryanair and Mincon among the movers

European shares enjoy strongest week since January

Shares in Fyffes surge almost 49% after news Sumitomo is to acquire the fruit distributor

Weaker corporate results weigh on European shares

Investors display scant tolerance for recent weeks’ poor earnings

Microsoft Irish data case raises critical issues for cloud computing

Data protection expert stresses case ‘is a big deal’ for wider cloud sector

Franco-Dutch SIM card maker claims US and UK hacked its networks

Security services tried to steal encryption keys, says world’s largest SIM card maker

Franco-Dutch SIM card maker claims US, UK hacked networks

Security services tried to steal encryption keys, says Gemalto

US and British spies probably hacked us - phone SIM card maker

Firm has not contacted the US or British intelligence agencies because doing so would have been a “waste of time”

Security agencies ‘stole codes’ to spy on mobile phones

GCHQ and NSA accessed SIM cards from Dutch firm, Snowden documents suggest

Move over Ireland, France is the new tax haven

Tax breaks for R&D combined with world-class scientists are making France a honey pot for technology companies

French rue history of missed commercial opportunity in innovation