Tagged: Cork & News
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Seven start-ups raise €3.15m between them to scale up News
08.03.2012 Seven CorkBIC clients have raised investment and funding worth €3.15m within the past 12 months, after connecting with angel investors at the incubation centre’s entrepreneur...Categories: Careers and Employment, CIO, Consumer Tech, Economy, Intellectual Property, Internet, Investments, IT Consulting, Life Sciences, Marketing, Mobile, Online Business, R&D, Science -
Cork LED lighting start-up gets €50,000 investment News
06.03.2012 Adaptive Lighting, a Cork-based developer of LED lighting systems, has secured a €50,000 equity investment from the AIB Seed Capital Fund.Categories: Sustainability, Science, Life Sciences, R&D, Research, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Funding, Engineer, Energy, Deals Done, CIO -
Strencom signs €300k data deals to connect three county councils News
05.03.2012 Cork-based internet service and cloud provider Strencom has signed contracts valued at more than €300,000 to connect Cork, Monaghan and Roscommon county councils to the... -
Blizzard to cut 600 jobs – 200 to go in Cork News
29.02.2012 Games giant Activision Blizzard has revealed that 600 technology jobs are to go at Blizzard Entertainment. This will affect 200 workers at Blizzard’s Cork operations. -
Intercall to create 15 jobs due to Vodafone partnership News
20.02.2012 Cork-based outsourcing firm Intercall will expand its workforce by 15 as it experienced a “significant turnover increase” after it secured a partnership with Vodafone. -
Sony taking the PlayStation Vita on tour across Ireland News
15.02.2012 Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland is taking the PlayStation Vita on a tour across the country with two custom-built mobile sampling units. Visitors will also get the chance to... -
Clean-tech Finance Bill changes welcomed by Green IFSC News
09.02.2012 The clean-tech tax changes to the Finance Bill have been welcomed by the Green IFSC, which says Ireland’s Government is likely the first in the world to recognise forest carbon...Categories: Sustainability, Software, Science, Renewable Energy, R&D, Private Irish Business, Investments, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Funding, Financial, Energy, Economy -
Big Fish Games expanding cloud game research in Cork, to create 30 jobs News
09.02.2012 Casual games provider Big Fish Games is expanding its cloud gaming research and development initiative at its Cork operations, which will create 30 highly skilled jobs in the... -
IT heads propose Munster Technological University News
31.01.2012 Just last week, the five institutes of technology (ITs) in Ireland’s border, midlands and west (BMW) region announced their plan to create a technological university there. Now...Categories: Science, R&D, Private Irish Business, Life Sciences, Jobs, Graduate, Government, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Bio TechTags: Institutes of Technology, Ireland, Education, FP7, EU, Innovation, Incubation, Technology Transfer, Cork, Limerick, -
Hibernia Atlantic in global fibre deal with Huawei News
16.01.2012 Hibernia Atlantic has signed a major construction deal with Huawei that will see the Chinese telecoms giant deploy its US$300m transatlantic Project Express network that will... -
AIB Seed Capital Fund rounds up 2011 start-up investments News
12.01.2012 The AIB Seed Capital Fund made 32 investments totalling more than €5m in new and existing investees in 2011, and added 15 new investees to its portfolio, according to an... -
Eircom working to restore service after stormy weather News
15.12.2011 Internet and phone service provider Eircom will have crews working throughout the weekend to restore service to areas knocked out by recent stormy weather. -
Cork aims to become a global hub for water technology News
09.12.2011 The Cork region could be positioned to be the global innovation hub for water technology, it emerged today, with the creation of the new Water Systems and Services Innovation...Categories: Green, Energy, Economy, Green Computing, Infrastructure Management, Intellectual Property, Jobs, R&D -
€50,000 seed capital prize up for grabs for Genesis participants News
06.12.2011 The AIB Seed Capital Fund is to give €50,000 seed capital for one participant on the Genesis Enterprise Programme, based at Cork Institute of Technology’s Rubicon Centre,...Categories: Recruitment, R&D, Jobs, Investments, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Government, Economy -
Tyndall scoops EU awards for e-car nanoelectronics research News
29.11.2011 Ireland’s Tyndall National Institute is pioneering potentially groundbreaking research on energy-efficient nanoelectronics for electric cars. Its silicon-based sensor that...Categories: Systems, Sustainability, Science, Research, R&D, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Green Tech -
EU aims for an ‘Innovation Union’ via R&D link-ups News
25.11.2011 European Commissioner for Research and Innovation Máire Geoghegan-Quinn was in Ireland yesterday to visit Tyndall National Institute, where she gave a heads-up on the EU's new...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Life Sciences, Jobs, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, Global CIO, Financial Results, Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Economy, CIO, Careers and Employment, Bio Tech -
Cork becoming a global hub for cloud services News
22.11.2011 As well as being home to the operations of major computing and cloud giants like EMC, VMware, IBM and Apple, Cork Internet eXchange (CIX), which serves 20,000 homes and... -
Cork LED-lighting firm wins clean-tech award in London News
15.11.2011 Nualight has won the overall Judges Award at the 2011 Cleantech Connect Awards in London. Some of the hottest and fastest-growing green-tech firms in Europe came down to the...Categories: Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, R&D, Investments, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Green Tech -
Irish tech start-up spotlight: AirDryer Systems News
13.11.2011 This week’s one to watch is AirDryer Systems, a new green-tech firm that’s based at the Rubicon Centre at Cork Institute of Technology. The company has just won an...Categories: Sustainability, Science, R&D, Jobs, Investments, Engineering, Energy, Green Tech, Business Intelligence -
Azotel signs broadband deal with South Africa firm News
09.11.2011 Cork-based Azotel Technologies has secured a contract to provide its technology to Wirulink Pty Ltd, a South Africa-based broadband services and network provider. The deal is...Categories: Wireless Communications, Web, IT Management, Investments, Internet, Deals Done, Contract, Communications, Government