Actavo, a major international strategic operations partner in the British Isles and the Caribbean, has entered a contract worth over €500,000 with Dublin and Galway-based software company Storm Technology. Storm is aiming to benefit from Actavo’s recent €3m IT upgrade…
Japanese technology giant Fujitsu unveiled a shake-up for its 80th birthday, spinning off its computer and tech products into subsidiaries and focusing on delivering connected services to big clients. Tatsuya Tanaka, president of the conglomerate since June, said the plan…
Mobile telecoms equipment maker Huawei has opened a new research and development centre in Dublin that is expected to create 50 jobs by 2016. The move is part of the company’s investment in R&D in Ireland, which will total €35 million…
“This is fun for me,” Michael Dell says. “If you told me I couldn’t do this, I’d be depressed.” The head of one the biggest technology companies in the world is candid about his motivation for growing the company he…
Irish cloud and information management company Kefron has invested €1m in acquiring both Evolution and Lightspeed, with plans to expand the overall workforce by the end of the year. The staff at both Lightspeed and Evolution will be retained, which…
A new European Digital City Index compiled by the Nesta foundation has ranked Dublin eighth out of 35 European cities that are considered attractive cities to establish a start-up, with London ranked No 1. The European Digital City Index (EDCI) covers all…
Virgin Media, formerly known as UPC, is to launch its new Virgin Mobile brand in Ireland on Monday 5 October with unlimited data, voice and texts for €25 a month, the CEO of Virgin Media in Ireland Magnus Ternsjö told…
Home to the international headquarters of the biggest tech companies on the planet and a vibrant community of promising start-ups, Dublin needs to remind the world it wears Europe’s digital crown. But it has work to do first, writes John…
Ratheniska in Laois has been picked as the pilot point for SIRO’s rural broadband programme, with 17 premises connected to the network. Ratheniska is, of course, currently hosting the National Ploughing Championships so, in purely promotional terms, SIRO could not…
Following the first anniversary of the publication of ISO 27018 – an international privacy standard governing the processing of personal data in the cloud — Mason Hayes & Curran looks at how successful the new standard has been and the…
