O’Brien to sell Digicel firms to world’s richest man
Denis O’Brien’s Honduras and El Salvador telecommunications businesses are to be acquired by Mexican businessman Carlos Slim – recently named as the world’s richest man by Forbes.
View ArticleThe world’s richest man lost €5.6 BILLION this week
It’s fine, though: Carlos Slim and his family are still worth €46.5bn – the equivalent of 4.5 per cent of Mexico’s total economic output.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien announces end of Digicel interest in Eircom
With Digicel no longer engaged in takeover talks, Eircom will have to come up with an alternative restructuring plan by 18 November.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien’s Digicel hits profits of more that $1bn
It’s the first time the telecoms group has reached profits of this level. It operates across the Caribbean, Central America and the Pacific.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien assembles consortium to bid for Myanmar mobile license
O’Brien has joined forces with George Soros and Serge Pun to secure one of two new telecommunications licences for the country formally known as Burma.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien’s company fails to win Myanmar phone licence
The syndicate involving O’Brien’s Digicel Group has missed out on being awarded one of two nationwide phone licences.
View ArticlePat Rabbitte: I’ve no concerns about Denis O’Brien’s invite to Irish economic...
The Communications Minister was asked this morning if he was equating media magnate Denis O’Brien with China. He denied he was.
View ArticleCommunicorp’s Lucy Gaffney: There was too much fat in INM
Chairwoman of Communicorp and board member of INM and Digicel also says that her boss Denis O’Brien is “demanding” but “not ruthless”.
View ArticleDigicel plans €500m investment as Denis O’Brien targets ‘massive push’ in 2014
In an interview with the Financial Times, O’Brien said that an expected $650m dividend from the company to him “hasn’t been paid yet”.
View ArticleClinton book made false claims about speeches in Ireland
‘Clinton Cash’, a book by conservative Peter Schweizer, claimed that Bill Clinton had been paid for speeches in Ireland.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien is selling about €2 billion of his company – but he gets to...
It’s all looking up for DOB.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien’s Digicel is taking on Google, Facebook, and Yahoo
The company is introducing ad blocking at a network level.
View ArticleDenis O’Brien’s Digicel pulls out of biggest ever Irish initial public offering
The company had been expected to make its IPO in the coming days.
View ArticleDigicel to cut workforce by 25% as part of 'global transformation'
It’s part of its 2030 strategy, the company said today.
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