Categorised as: Business & News
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Ripplecom acquires Ice Broadband assets News
11.05.2010 Ice Broadband, the regional wireless broadband provider owned by former FAI chief exective Fran Rooney’s daughter Yvonne, has been acquired by up-and-coming regional broadband... -
Newspapers are wrong – Google is not your enemy News
07.05.2010 New media pioneer and one of the UK’s leading tech writers Bill Thompson told Siliconrepublic.com he believes newspapers are misguided if they think paywalls will save them and... -
Lessons on leadership and delegation News
10.05.2010 An individual entrepreneur can take things a long way – but only to a point, according to Will McKee and his son John who together authored a book entitled 'STAR: Leadership...Tags: Entrepreneur, Customer Service, -
Falling Wii console sales hit Nintendo’s profits News
06.05.2010 Declining sales of its Wii games console have hit Nintendo’s bottom line, as it reported a fall in annual net profits.Categories: Business, Financial ResultsTags: Nintendo Wii, -
EirGrid secures full funding for Ireland-Wales electricity link News
06.05.2010 EirGrid has completed the final phase of funding for its Ireland-Wales electricity link, having recently secured €160m of commercial debt from Barclays and BNP Paribas.Categories: BusinessTags: -
Irish Association of Online Publishers established News
06.05.2010 An Irish branch of the Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has been set up with irishtimes.com, independent.ie, RTÉ.ie and entertainment.ie as its four founding members.Tags: -
Semiconductor industry set for highest growth in 10 years News
07.05.2010 The last time the global semiconductor industry achieved annual revenue growth greater than 30pc was when Bill Clinton was US president, Gladiator was topping the box office and... -
Deals done this past week News
10.05.2010 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish technology sector, including internet search giant Google’s acquisition of BumpTop, creator of a 3D desktop system.Categories: Business, Mergers & AcquisitionsTags: Google, -
The Tech Week Ahead News
10.05.2010 Financial results and technology events taking place the week of 10-14 May.Categories: Business, Financial Results -
The digital business week News
10.05.2010 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week. -
UPC hits 160,000 broadband subscribers News
07.05.2010 Cable TV and broadband provider UPC has revealed its Irish broadband subscriber base has jumped from 110,000 in the last quarter to 160,000 by the end of Q1 2010. -
Technology brands most valuable globally News
04.05.2010 The value of the Top 100 brands in the world now stands at US$2trn, up 40pc in the last five years, a new survey from Millward Brown suggests.Tags: Google, -
How the computer giants could become the new media moguls News
06.05.2010 Anyone who kept an eye on the spat last week between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and digital media software company Adobe would realise that a seismic shift is happening in the... -
FeedHenry spins out in Waterford News
05.05.2010 The Telecommunication Software & Systems Group (TSSG) at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) has announced the spin-off of FeedHenry, an award-winning software firm. -
Did HP pay too much for Palm? News
04.05.2010 HP’s purchase of Palm raises as many questions as it does answers, an analyst firm has railed, arguing the Palm brand is virtually unknown outside the US and has limited... -
Google goes 3D with acquisition of BumpTop News
04.05.2010 Google’s plans to become an even bigger force in the computing world are becoming clearer now that the company has acquired BumpTop, the creator of a 3D desktop system that runs... -
Apple claims to have sold 1m iPads News
04.05.2010 Apple has revealed it has sold its one-millionth iPad tablet computer, just 28 days after it was introduced on 3 April. The company also revealed that iPad users have already... -
Intel, Dell on Irish list for 2010 European Business Awards News
30.04.2010 Ten Irish firms, including three technology companies, have been selected to represent the country in the next stage of the 2010 European Business Awards.Categories: Business -
UL life sciences spin-out bought for US$33.4m News
29.04.2010 A spin-out from the University of Limerick has been bought by Life Technologies for US$33.4m. The company develops technology that radically advances life science research and... -
The Tech Week Ahead News
03.05.2010 Financial results and technology events taking place the week of 3-7 May.