Shopping bonanza logged more than €14.8bn in sales in less than 90 minutes

Markets report: Aryzta, BoI and PTSB fall but Malin bucks the trend on ISEQ to add 4.8%

Rare retreat for ecommerce giant as it becomes latest to struggle against local rivals

Founder of Alibaba, says ‘We don’t need those who comfortably work eight hours’

Online campaign against working 9am-9pm six days a week hits nerve with youth

Business Week: Big news for several Irish businessmen; mortgage woes; and housing

JD.com has 302m active users and Goodman family has courted the Chinese market for years

Move follows remarks insulting to China on two of the firm’s Instagram accounts

Ads featured Chinese woman struggling to eat spaghetti and pizza with chopsticks

Chinese ecommerce giant’s annual sales growth falls from 39 per cent to 27 per cent

Irish companies successfully doing business in China are happy to share their expertise with those hoping to enter the hugely lucrative market

Company’s premium beef cuts to be made available to consumers via JD.com

US retail giant’s UK arm Asda also sees sales rise for fourth quarter

Company secures €50m deal with Asian firm Wowprime to supply beef to outlets in China

Finance chief of digital-payment company Square Sarah Friar will bring Silicon Valley know-how to the US retailer

Xi hails future of relationship between countries as leaders sign multimillion trade deals

JD Sports, the UK-listed retailer, has nearly completed conversion of Champion Sports chain

Havens such as gold, US treasuries and the yen fell while oil retreated

China’s e-commerce transactions projected to reach $2.8 trillion this year

Chinese ecommerce giant JD.com places focus on both retail and supply chain

Mike Ashley-owned chain says profits would grow by even more than previously-predicted 17%

Microblogging service adds to the list of Chinese companies flocking to the US IPO market

Stock market’s biggest tech companies suffer biggest hit since depths of financial crisis