Mark Dowds News Today

Rock star The Edge delighted young Northern Ireland tech start-up leaders with a surprise appearance in Belfast to check out their work.

Company leaders from across the island will gather in Belfast for the InterTradeIreland Business Summit on Thursday next week.

Circularity platform Responsible has acquired Haru in an attempt to bolster Northern Ireland’s fashion circularity solutions.

Responsible plans to strengthen its brand with Haru’s technology, creating a single platform for second-hand fashion.

RESPONSIBLE To Invest £1.2m In Innovation And Business Development

Responsible has invested more than £1.2m to expand its operations and staff, assisted by Invest NI, which provided £98,000.

British Army personnel based at Tapa with the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) got a taste of a real Estonian winter on Friday, after conducting ice escape drills. The cold plunges were the culmination of a three-day winter training exercise focusing mainly on navigation and survival, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Friday night.

Barclays has joined together with fellow investors Techstart Ventures, Rafał Brzoska, and Sarah Friar in a $6.6 million Seed Round of investment capital in RESPONSIBLE, creators of the world’s first embedded finance platform in fashion.

Nextdoor chief executive Sarah Friar also among backers of Belfast-based company

The Belfast company, which helps brands and customers resell clothes, aims to grow its business.