Tagged: Cork
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Greenpeace activists protest on Apple’s Cork HQ’s roof News
18.04.2012 Four Greenpeace activists protested on the roof Apple’s European base in Cork this morning, saying the company's new cloud service iCloud is powered by fossil fuels. -
E-commerce grant open to south and east Cork businesses News
13.04.2012 Businesses in south and east Cork that operate in the food, craft and tourism sectors can now apply for funding so they can set up e-commerce websites. South and East Cork Area...Categories: Web, Social Media, Online Business, Internet, Enterprise, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Electric Ireland and Abtran to partner in outsourcing contract News
12.04.2012 Cork-based Irish business process outsourcing company Abtran has won a tendering process with Electric Ireland to extend its contract with the energy utility for another five... -
Number of jobs advertised online up 4pc - IrishJobs.ie Jobs Index News
05.04.2012 The total number of jobs advertised online has increased by 4pc, driven by certain sectors achieving large gains, the IrishJobs.ie Jobs Index for the first quarter of 2012 reveals.Tags: Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Employment, Jobs, Telecoms, Marketing, Legal, Pharmaceutical, Science, Report, Online, Advertising, -
Students win TechnoDen prize for VisualEyes invention News
02.04.2012 A group of transition-year students have won the TechnoDen competition in Cork for their VisualEyes product, a portable visual aid that’s based on echolocation.Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Graduate, Global CIO, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Computers, Careers and Employment, Career Advice -
Buyandsellyourgames.com to let gamers set prices for used games News
20.03.2012 Two Cork entrepreneurs have launched Buyandsellyourgames.com to let people set their price when selling their old video games and to buy used games online. -
Wavebreak Media get €400K investment; plans 10 new jobs News
15.03.2012 Wavebreak Media, the visual content producer based at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), has received €400,000 in follow-on investment. It now plans to create 10 new jobs over... -
Irish student designs iSpoted app for creatives News
13.03.2012 Katie O’Sullivan, a final-year student at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), has won the top prize in the institute’s APPrentice competition for her iSpoted location-based app... -
The latest gaming positions from our Jobs Board News
09.03.2012 We take a look at the latest jobs in the video-games industry on our Jobs Board. A Forfás report has predicted that the number of people employed in the sector will more than...Categories: Software, Marketing, Management, IT Management, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Development, Design, Careers and EmploymentTags: PopCap, Activision Blizzard, Design, PopCap Games, Engineering, Software Engineering, Gaming, Dublin, Cork, Ireland, Jobs, Video Games -
Class moments at a meeting of tech minds in Cork (video) News
09.03.2012 A portrait of youth and industry discussing tech’s future. Entrepreneurship and the empowerment of kids through coding was the key theme of it@cork’s recent Tech Tuesday... -
Enterprising students get €10K at innovation awards News
09.03.2012 Inventive third-level students are today being awarded for their commercially applicable innovations, with €10,000 being given out to the winning teams at the finals of the...Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Science, Research, R&D, Multimedia, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Life Sciences, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Funding, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Design, Apps, Application Design and Development -
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,