Tagged: SMEs & News
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Euro-SME conference opens in Dublin to put spotlight on entrepreneurs News
11.06.2013 A two-day conference kicked off at Dublin Castle today to put the spotlight on entrepreneurship and how SMEs can access future support and funding, especially under the EU’s new... -
An Post launches Admailer.ie with 50 free marketing campaigns up for grabs News
06.06.2013 To help promote its new marketing service, Admailer.ie, An Post is putting 50 free campaigns on offer, which it claims could attract up to 100,000 new customers to small... -
VCs say up to €800m could be leveraged for Irish SMEs from Govt investment News
04.06.2013 It is expected that the venture capital industry with the support of private investors and syndicated funds from overseas should be able to leverage the Irish Government’s €175m...Categories: Economy, Financial, Funding, Government, Investments, Private Irish Business, Recruitment -
The five-minute CIO: Ciaran Brosnan News
31.05.2013 Campion Insurance’s IT manager Ciaran Brosnan on why big data has a role for SMEs, and how moving to a more stable virtualised platform reassures the business that it can meet...Categories: Business Intelligence, Careers and Employment, CIO, Investments, IT Management, Virtualisation -
20 Irish SMEs to avail of IEDR’s €150k e-commerce fund News
29.05.2013 Twenty Irish companies are set to benefit from professional consultancy and support to upgrade their online presence under the IE Domain Registry’s (IEDR) €150,000 Optimise fund.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Sales, Research, Private Irish Business, Media, Marketing, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Irish tech firms raise €52m in first quarter – IVCA survey News
29.05.2013 Irish technology companies raised €52m in funding in the first quarter of 2013, new figures released today by the Irish Venture Capital Association (IVCA) suggest. It warned,... -
The five minute CIO: Vincent Nolan News
10.05.2013 Smyths Toys is one of Ireland’s fastest-growing retailers. Its head of IT Vincent Nolan talks about changing the mindset from an SME to an enterprise, and why IT operations... -
More small businesses are adopting cloud computing in Ireland - Microsoft/Amárach Cloud Index News
09.05.2013 More organisations across Ireland are implementing cloud computing, in particular, companies with five to 50 employees, the second annual Microsoft/Amárach Cloud Index reveals. -
IIA and Enterprise Ireland to hit the road with series of Cloud Adoption events News
07.05.2013 The Irish Internet Associaion (IIA) has teamed up with Enterprise Ireland on a Cloud Adoption Event Series – a cloud roadshow sponsored by Microsoft Ireland that intends to... -
SMEs and job creation the focus of Dublin meeting of EU Enterprise ministers News
03.05.2013 EU Enterprise and Innovation ministers are in Dublin today for a series of talks on how SMEs could hold the key to creating jobs and drive European growth. -
IEDR calls on small businesses to apply for €150k e-commerce fund News
23.04.2013 Irish small and micro-business owners who already have a .ie web address and who are looking to boost their company’s online presence have two more days to apply for support and... -
#DIF13 – Irish Govt to appoint consultants to map 30Mbps broadband across Ireland (videos) News
19.04.2013 The Irish Government’s National Digital Strategy will be unveiled in the coming weeks and at the same time the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources will...Categories: Telecommunications, Online Business, Internet, Government, Economy, eCommerce, Communications -
Scientists converge in Cork to discuss space and maritime sectors News
18.04.2013 The European Space Agency’s (ESA) director of earth observation programmes Dr Volker Liebig is one of the key speakers at a two-day conference that kicked off in Cork this...Categories: Software Development, Software, Science, Investments, Government, Engineering, Energy, Economy -
Inventorium and IIA create e-commerce accelerator to get Irish SMEs trading online News
14.03.2013 NDRC’s Inventorium and the Irish Internet Association (IIA) are teaming up on a new accelerator programme to get 20 Irish SMEs into online trading.Categories: Online Business, eCommerce -
Cloud TCO calculator for SMEs goes live News
13.03.2013 Hosted desktop provider Let’s Operate has launched a new total cost of ownership (TCO) calculator that allows SMEs to compare the actual cost of their current traditional IT...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Infrastructure Management, Digital Business, CIO, Apps -
More than 1 in 6 Irish SMEs lose domain names before registering companies - survey News
15.02.2013 More than one in six Irish SMEs lose their domain names before registering their companies and 68pc of small business owners in Ireland fail to register their domain names prior... -
The technology business week: €150k to develop SMEs’ web presence, lawsuit against Nokia dismissed News
17.12.2012 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Web Development, Phones, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Legal, Leadership & Management, Internet, Financial, eCommerce, Deals Done, Consumer Tech -
The Facebook economy: ‘SMBs will create a Facebook page before they’ll build a website’ News
13.12.2012 Facebook is ramping up its focus on small and medium-sized businesses and revealed that more than 300,000 business-owned pages have promoted more than 2.5m posts since June.... -
Budget 2013 includes tax reform plan for SMEs News
05.12.2012 Ireland’s Finance Minister Michael Noonan introduced a 10-points tax reform plan for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in his Budget 2013 address to the Dáil in Dublin... -
Tech start-up of the week: Firm Thinking News
02.12.2012 Our tech start-up of the week is Dublin marketing consultancy Firm Thinking, which has come up with a new service called My Video Shorts to create bespoke video shorts and...