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Mattel
What is free will? Can we know God? And what if everyone was really buff, with abs and stuff?
Patrick Freyne: Like all great fiction, Masters of the Universe asks the big questions
Lego records fastest growth in 5 years on back of digital shift
Sets blending physical bricks with Super Mario games propel profits
Toy boom is not a Covid ‘one-off’, says Mattel
Barbie, Hot Wheels power Mattel’s holiday-quarter sales beat
Shares stutter as hopes for post-Covid recovery diminish
Ryanair and Aer Lingus group hit by UK plans for quarantine for arriving travellers
John Collison: ‘It is entirely plausible that you could set up Stripe in Dublin now’
Stripe co-founder on how his billion-dollar company continues to evolve
Only way is up for Stripe as valuation skyrockets
Fintech is in talks on a new funding round that could value it at $100bn
Barbie boom, Trump loyalists and a bond king’s latest battle
Planet Business: Everybody needs good neighbours
Fortnite owner signs multimillion deal to buy Irish ‘kidtech’ firm
Dylan Collins’s SuperAwesome acquired by Epic, games maker best known for Fortnite
Stripe wins more corporate customers, announces Salesforce deal
Fast-growing company’s solutions in demand during coronavirus pandemic
Lego wins lockdown as Danish toymaker grows sales and profits
Other toymakers have struggled but Lego has shrugged off shop closures
Stripe lures Dhivya Suryadevara from General Motors to be CFO
Companies launched on Stripe’s platform since March have generated close to $10bn
Toymaker Hasbro’s board games hit by Covid delays
Factories in Ireland, the US and India closed just as families seek lockdown entertainment options
Irish-founded tech company teams up with WPP to protect children online
SuperAwesome announces partnership with the world’s biggest advertising agency
Apple’s Oscar moment, the Bezos property splurge and a ‘giant flying wing’
Planet Business: The toys are back in town
Irish-founded ‘kid tech’ company SuperAwesome gets Microsoft backing
Microsoft has taken a stake in the group as it raises $17m in a new fundraising round
Irish sisters collaborate on new wheelchair for Barbie
Barbie fans can now accessorise their Barbie’s wheelchair with an Izzy Wheels design
Two positives make a negative for gender bias in Stem
Could girls’ superior reading skills really be what’s holding back gender diversity in Stem?
The untold stories of Toy Story
Woody started out as a jerk, Barbie is a Marxist . . . much like Andy’s toys, the fan theories around the franchise have taken on a life of their own
How to avoid silly mistakes with smart toys
Internet-connected toys have sparked concerns about privacy and security
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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