Tagged: Investment & News
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NI construction firm invests stg£100,000 in private cloud News
23.05.2012 Northern Ireland McAvoy Group has signed a new contract with Lisburn-based IT company Xperience, worth more than stg£100,000 as part of a four-year strategy to grow its share of... -
Meet the world’s youngest billionaire (and it’s not Zuckerberg) News
18.05.2012 He’s a Harvard dropout, Facebook co-founder and he’s the world’s youngest billionaire by just eight days. Meet Dustin Moskovitz.Categories: Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, DevelopmentTags: Silicon Valley, Social Media, Investment, IPO, Development, Software, Engineering, Spotify, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, -
Vodafone Ireland invests €120m in network upgrade News
22.05.2012 Vodafone’s Irish operations invested €120m in the last year on developing its network, the largest investment by any network operator in Ireland this year. -
How much is Zuckerberg worth? (infographic) News
18.05.2012 The team at Visual.ly has come up with a live infographic to keep us all up-to-date with the answer to the question on everyone’s minds today. -
Facebook's IPO broadcasting live from NASDAQ News
18.05.2012 Watch Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ring the bell from the company's HQ in Menlo Park, California, to start the day's trading on Wall Street.Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial Results, Financial, Digital Media -
IBM to create several hundred new jobs at Dublin Global Services Hub News
18.05.2012 IBM is to create several hundred new jobs at a new Global Services Integration Hub in Mulhuddart as part of an IDA Ireland-supported investment.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Investments, Green Computing, Global CIO, Funding, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre, CIO -
Ireland named best place to invest in Western Europe News
16.05.2012 Ireland has topped the list of the best places to invest in Western Europe, according to the annual Global Best-to-Invest Rankings compiled by international magazine Site... -
California cloud start-up Box looks to 2013 IPO News
11.05.2012 Box, the cloud-based start-up that was spawned in 2005 from a college project, appears to be heading for an IPO in mid to late 2013. -
BT all-Ireland revenues up 1pc to stg£757m News
11.05.2012 Telecoms and ICT provider BT this morning reported a 1pc increase in revenues for the year of stg£757m. It said its transformation process, ongoing inrastructure rollout north...Tags: O2, Northern Ireland, Investment, BT Business, BT, Telecoms, ICT, Vodafone, 3 Ireland, Fibre Infrastructure Investment, LLU -
Weekend news roundup: Ka Shing to offer more ka-ching for Eircom; Google News revamp News
08.05.2012 In our roundup of some of the tech reports in the weekend newspapers, it appears Li Ka Shing's Hutchison Whampoa may make another offer for Eircom; Google TV is set to make a... -
Ireland's Green IFSC targets US$200bn worth of asset management News
04.05.2012 Ireland’s aim to be a global hub for ‘green finance’ could see the emerging Green IFSC eventually manage US$200bn worth of green funds, it emerged this week. -
Energy firm Cylon to create 50 jobs in €11m cloud investment News
04.05.2012 Building energy management player Cylon is to create 50 new jobs over the next four years as part of an €11m investment in its energy management division Cyclin Active Energy. -
BT creating 120 jobs in Northern Ireland News
02.05.2012 BT is expanding its operations in Northern Ireland, creating up to 120 new jobs for a new contact centre in Belfast. -
Amgen to create up to 100 jobs in US$200m expansion News
26.04.2012 Biotechnology firm Amgen is investing US$200m in an expansion programme in Ireland which will create up to 100 jobs. Some 350 construction jobs will be also created during the... -
Mylan to create 500 new jobs by 2016 with €380m investment News
18.04.2012 Pharmaceuticals firm Mylan will invest up to €76m for five years totaling to €380m to expand its operations in Dublin and Galway and will add more than 500 new positions to its...Tags: R&D, Enda Kenny, Pharmaceutical, Life Sciences, Jobs, Jobs Announcements, Dublin, Ireland, Research, Investment -
Fight My Monster hits 1m 10-year-olds, inks TV deal with Brown Bag News
13.04.2012 Fight My Monster, the company chaired by games supremo Dylan Collins, has become the fastest-growing online game for boys in the UK, having reached its one millionth 10 year-old... -
Business angels key to €12m investment in tech start-ups, 344 new jobs News
12.04.2012 The Halo Business Angel Network (HBAN) helped 29 companies raise €12m, which will lead to the creation of 143 new jobs in 2012 and 344 jobs by the end of 2014. An incremental... -
A year in crowdfunding in Ireland (infographic) News
10.04.2012 A new infographic compiled by Fundit reveals that €538,000 was pledged in the crowdfunding site’s first year, with 143 projects funded.Categories: Apps, Digital Business, Digital Media, eCommerce, Funding, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Investments -
Thomas International takes equity stake in Irish careers website News
10.04.2012 UK-headquartered Thomas International, a global provider of psychometric assessment and team profiling software and services, has taken a significant equity stake in... -
OPINION: blind squirrels and acorns, a primer for Irish entrepreneurs News
07.04.2012 In the first in a new series of guest posts Silicon Valley venture capitalist Richard Moran points out to start-ups and innovators how they can better articulate their ideas to...