{"id":302321,"date":"2026-02-17T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302321\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T09:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T09:56:14","slug":"icon-remains-vulnerable-as-it-starts-out-on-long-road-to-regain-trust-of-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302321\/","title":{"rendered":"Icon remains vulnerable as it starts out on long road to regain trust of investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Clinical trials giant saw shares plunge after it disclosed an accounting practices probe<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Icon is facing a battle to get investors back on side in the wake of a brutal week for the company\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9f9b0bd0-5277-4f99-bbfc-bc86388e4392.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Icon is facing a battle to get investors back on side in the wake of a brutal week for the company<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Irish clinical trials firm Icon floated on the Nasdaq in New York in 1998, it was in the midst of the dotcom boom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tech companies were big news. Ebay also floated on the market that year. So too did then Blackberry-owner Research in Motion and chipmaker ARM Holdings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clinical trials giant saw shares plunge after it disclosed an accounting practices probe Icon is facing a battle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2334,72,61,60,10099],"class_list":{"0":"post-302321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-mulligan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}