A slump in sales of personal computers has been reflected in a decrease in second-quarter revenue and profit for HP. The computer maker posted revenue of US$27.6bn, compared with US$30.7bn a year earlier, and net income of US$1.08bn, compared to US$1.59bn last year.
23.May.2013 10:21
Tech giants AOL, eBay, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle contributed more than €5.3m to local community groups and charities in 2012, according to Business in the Community Ireland, which has compiled an online interactive ‘Business Impact Map’ of the activities of 46 socially minded Ireland-based companies.
23.May.2013 06:32
Eighty-three per cent of consumers surveyed in five countries would like to forego their wallets and pay for purchases in a less bulky fashion, a survey by online payments giant PayPal suggests.
23.May.2013 06:00
Despite the increase in value of deals, the number of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals in the Irish economy are down 11.5pc year-on-year, according to new data from the Investec M&A Tracker, which shows transactions of more than €5.5bn in the first quarter of 2013.
22.May.2013 12:21
We catch up with Joan Mulvihill, chief executive of the Irish Internet Association at the Open Innovation 2.0 forum. Last night, Mulvihill was recognised among luminaries such as physicist Stephen Hawking and space skydiver Felix Baumgartner at the inaugural Innovation Luminary Awards in Dublin.
21.May.2013 16:22
A hearing will take place in the US Senate today to examine the strategies employed by multinational corporations to shift profits offshore in order to avoid taxes. Specifically, Apple and its Irish subsidiaries will be in the hot seat, as a report claims the tech giant is using Ireland as a “tax haven”.
21.May.2013 11:55
Challenging economic conditions in Europe have hit telecoms giant Vodafone’s annual revenues for the year ended 31 March, dropping 4.4pc to stg£44.4bn, after the company cut prices in Europe to try and retain customers.
21.May.2013 08:52
Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is today employed by companies worldwide, from Ericsson to General Electric, but it all began as a PhD dissertation back in the mid-Noughties. Osterwalder was in Dublin today and spoke to Ann O’Dea.
20.May.2013 19:34
Internet giant Yahoo! has ended days of speculation and announced its intent to acquire online blogging platform Tumblr for US$1.1bn.
20.May.2013 13:34
Cloud-based marketing software provider Marketo went public on Friday with a highly successful market debut.
20.May.2013 12:41
A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.
20.May.2013 10:59
In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, a former Google executive claims to have proof the internet search giant has avoided tax in the UK, Facebook focuses on mobile a year after its IPO, and a Saudi cleric says Twitter will damn your soul.
20.May.2013 09:39
The board of Yahoo! has reportedly agreed a US$1.1bn all-cash deal to buy the six-year-old social blogging service Tumblr, according to US media reports.
20.May.2013 09:10
Europe must increase the size of its manufacturing sector and lead in energy efficiency, technology innovation and addressing the changing consumption patterns of consumers if it is to remain internationally competitive, a new study suggests.
20.May.2013 07:00
Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.
20.May.2013 06:00
Stripe, the payment platform for developers led by the Collison brothers from Limerick, will launch first in Ireland before the rest of Europe.
19.May.2013 20:18
