Hewlett-Packard (HP) shareholders are taking the PC giant to court, accusing the company in a lawsuit of failing to properly examine the financial practices of Autonomy prior to acquiring the software firm.
08.May.2013 14:40
More retail banking customers in Ireland will be able to have virtual face-to-face meetings with banking specialists from any branch, in real-time and via high-definition video, now that Cisco has launched a new technology.
08.May.2013 12:56
Telecoms company Telefónica, owner of O2 Ireland, reported a 20.6pc increase in first-quarter net income of €902m, up from €748m a year ago.
08.May.2013 10:10
Software security firm McAfee is jostling for leadership position in network security with its bid to acquire Stonesoft Oyj, a provider of next-generation network firewall products, for about US$389m in cash.
08.May.2013 06:00
UPC Ireland grew its total number of subscribers to a record 1,012,600 during the first three months of this year, including 23,800 subscriptions for its fibre-powered broadband, TV and phone services from homes and businesses throughout Ireland.
07.May.2013 12:21
A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.
07.May.2013 10:59
In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, Intel's ‘Silvermont’ chip design focuses on mobile, the US Justice Department is investigating IBM over bribery allegations, and Zynga looks to Farmville 2 to turn its fortunes around.
07.May.2013 08:26
Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.
06.May.2013 06:00
Business social network LinkedIn has reaped US$22.6m in profit during the first quarter on revenue of US$324.7m.
03.May.2013 13:39
Jordan Casey, a 13-year-old from Waterford who taught himself how to write code and who at 12 was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to publish an app in the App Store, is to speak at the prestigious 20th TiEcon conference in California where he will impart the lessons of a CEO to the CEOs of LinkedIn, Amazon, Netfix, PayPal and many others.
02.May.2013 15:44
Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has published unaudited results which present a damning picture – instead of basking in the success of sales of one of its best smartphones yet, delays in launching the HTC One have led to the company producing profits of just US$2.8m for Q1.
02.May.2013 10:47
Social networking giant Facebook reported Q1 revenues of US$1.46bn, out of which it garnered a profit of US$219m, up 7pc year-on-year. Significantly, the company revealed it now has 751m active mobile users.
01.May.2013 21:50
One of America’s leading technology retailers Best Buy has revealed that it plans to sell off its 50pc stake in Best Buy Europe to Carphone Warehouse for an estimated stg£500m in cash and stock.
30.Apr.2013 13:51
Eircom said today it plans to sell €310m worth of senior secured notes due in 2020. This is the first bonds-issue by the telco since it had €2.3bn worth of debt written off last year.
30.Apr.2013 12:14
It’s been nearly a year since Facebook’s IPO but another social networking giant isn’t going to follow suit any time soon. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has said the company is “not even thinking about it” right now.
30.Apr.2013 10:41
Global office supplies player Staples has gone live with a new 3D printing Experience Centre in the Netherlands, which is powered by technology made by Irish firm Mcor.
29.Apr.2013 16:11
