Categorised as: Mergers & Acquisitions & News
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UK 4G player EE reaches 320,000 subscribers in just five months News
23.04.2013 Just five months after launching its first 4G services, Everything Everywhere (EE) this morning reported it has now reached 320,000 4G subscribers in the UK and is on target to... -
The technology business week: €16.2bn in export sales for Enterprise Ireland clients, troika exit to boost IDA’s efforts News
22.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
LinkedIn’s new-look mobile app harnesses its Pulse acquisition for a fuller news feed News
18.04.2013 LinkedIn has wasted no time in benefiting from its US$90m acquisition of Pulse, releasing a fully revamped version of its mobile app with a more visually pleasing and... -
Intel buys API player Mashery for an estimated US$180m News
18.04.2013 Tech giant Intel has acquired Mashery, a provider of API technology that helps major brands, including the Guardian, USA Today, Klout and Rovi, use APIs to build new revenue... -
Tweak.com's Jerry Kennelly: Ireland needs to become a land of coders and scholars News
15.04.2013 The saints and scholars tag for Ireland is defunct – it now needs to be known as the land of ‘coders and scholars’, Kerry technology entrepreneur Jerry Kennelly told DojoCon,... -
Maurice Mortell interview: data centres are the heart of the digital economy (video) News
15.04.2013 TelecityGroup Ireland managing director Maurice Mortell says data centres have become the heart of the digital ecosystem, with vital interconnects between various telcos, cloud... -
The technology business week: PC sales fall off a cliff, Enteprise Ireland trade mission to Turkey success News
15.04.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
LinkedIn buys news reader platform Pulse for US$90m News
12.04.2013 LinkedIn has confirmed its acquisition of Alphonso Labs, the company behind the mobile news reader app Pulse, for US$90m. The Pulse app, which now boasts more than 30m users... -
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. -
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... -
Disney pulls the plug on LucasArts News
04.04.2013 Only six months after acquiring the games developer, the Walt Disney Company is shutting down LucasArts, the firm behind the Star Wars and Monkey Island series of games. -
Cisco to acquire mobile-networking company Ubiquisys for about US$310m News
03.04.2013 Networking equipment maker Cisco is to acquire Ubiquisys, a provider of intelligent 3G and long-term evolution (LTE) small-cell technologies, for about US$310m. -
Verizon denies joint plans with AT&T to bid for Vodafone in €200bn mega merger News
03.04.2013 US telecoms player Verizon has blasted speculation that it plans to co-operate with AT&T in a bid to buy UK telecoms giant Vodafone in a transaction rumoured to be worth in... -
Accenture acquires ChangeTrack Research News
03.04.2013 Technology consulting firm Accenture has snapped up ChangeTrack Research, a provider of analytics-based tools and services for change management, for an undisclosed sum. -
Masterminding European tech mergers and acquisitions News
02.04.2013 Because of the size of Silicon Valley and the volume of money raised and numbers of companies being bought and sold every week, Europe doesn’t often seem to be as exciting a... -
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. -
Amazon acquires bookish social community Goodreads News
29.03.2013 E-commerce, gadget and cloud giant Amazon has acquired Goodreads, the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations which has a community of 16m who have added 530m... -
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