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The technology business week: Aer Lingus grounds talk of San Francisco direct flights; Disney shuts LucasArts News
08.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Former Intel, EMC and Bord Gais senior brass join WiseTek board News
05.04.2013 Former Intel Ireland general manager Jim O’Hara, ex-senior VP at EMC Dick Lehane and former Bord Gais CEO John Mullins have joined the board of Cork-headquartered OEM services... -
HP board chairman Raymond J Lane and two directors to step down News
05.04.2013 Computer maker HP’s acquisition of software firm Autonomy has appeared to come back to haunt its chairman of the board, Raymond J Lane, who is to step down from the role, in... -
Denis O’Brien assembles Digicel consortium to pursue Myanmar mobile licence News
04.04.2013 Denis O’Brien has assembled a consortium of investors that includes US-Hungarian billionaire businessman and philantropist George Soros and Myanmar business leader Serge Pun to... -
South African TV’s Universal Networks apologises for airing Mandela obituary News
04.04.2013 A South African TV company has apologised and blamed a technical error for its repeatedly airing clips indicating that former South African president Nelson Mandela had died.... -
Digital Ireland Forum to focus on next-generation technologies that will transform business News
02.04.2013 The next generation of technologies being deployed in communications, media, finance and software will have a profound impact on the competitiveness and growth of our businesses...Categories: Leadership & Management, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Communications -
Smart metering company expands into UK and EU markets News
02.04.2013 Galway-based energy-monitoring company Meterlogix, which recently announced 12 new jobs, has launched a new business in the UK market as a first step before launching into Europe. -
Aer Lingus dismisses rumours of San Francisco direct flights as just speculation News
02.04.2013 Aer Lingus has dismissed rumours that it plans to resume its schedule to San Francisco as speculation. It had been rumoured the airliner would later today reveal plans to...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Hardware, Digital Business -
The technology business week: two other offers for Dell, Yahoo! to buy Summly News
02.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis to leave company in May News
28.03.2013 BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis will retire as vice-chairman and director of the company on 1 May to focus on his new venture, Quantum Valley Investments. -
Ireland is the world’s third most globalised nation by GDP News
12.03.2013 Ireland is the world’s third most globalised nation in terms of GDP and remains the most globalised nation in the western world, according to Ernst & Young’s latest...Categories: Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Investments, Financial Services, Financial, Economy, Digital Media -
Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty appointed CEO of Nirvanix News
26.03.2013 Zynga CIO Debra Chrapaty is leaving the company to take the helm of enterprise cloud storage firm Nirvanix in April as its CEO. -
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book reaches No 1 on best-seller lists News
26.03.2013 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, has reached the No 1 spot on two influential best-seller lists, after having only been released... -
Insurance giant Zurich to create 112 jobs at two new IT hubs in Dublin News
26.03.2013 Global insurer Zurich is to establish two new IT hubs in Dublin that will result in the creation of 112 new technology jobs. The two hubs will serve the IT service and security...Categories: Servers, Security, Management, Leadership & Management, IT Management, Investments, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management -
Bosses’ loss of control fears prevent uptake of flexible working in Ireland News
26.03.2013 Insecurities around the perceived loss of control if workers adopt flexible or mobile working is the biggest factor preventing Irish employers from adopting the latest... -
Tech tycoon delivers delight to digital natives News
26.03.2013 In 2003, two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Dylan Collins and Sean Blanchfield, did a very unfashionable thing at the time. They started a technology company in the... -
Final call for entries to Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2013 News
25.03.2013 Entrepreneurs with a remarkable story to tell and a track record to match are being encouraged to enter the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, which is making its final... -
Michael Dell faces pitch battle to retain control of the company he started News
25.03.2013 Michael Dell is facing competition from two main contenders who may scupper his US$24.4bn bid to take computer giant Dell private. Dell's board of directors has confirmed that...Categories: Software, Servers, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Financial, Computers -
HP rolls out cancer screening for all its Irish employees News
25.03.2013 For the first time in Ireland, computer giant HP is to offer free onsite male cancer (prostate and testicular) screening and risk assessments for all employees and their families. -
Trinity and Queen’s teams triumph at Citi upStart Awards News
25.03.2013 Precision Engineered from Trinity College Dublin and Platform Planet from Queen’s University Belfast emerged victorious at the 2013 upStart entrepreneurship awards organised by...