Categorised as: Leadership & Management
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Tech giants and colleges join forces to make execs masters of the big data universe News
15.03.2013 If data is going to be the oil of the 21st century, business leaders will need an edge when it comes to capitalising on opportunities in big data. Tech giants EMC and SAS have...Categories: Leadership & Management, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO, Business Intelligence, Analysis -
The technology business week: UK fraud office wades into HP-Autonomy case, Dell clears Icahn to study its books News
19.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Security Industry Association elects its first female president News
14.03.2013 Sheenagh McCullagh has been elected the 22nd president of the Irish Security Industry Association and is effectively the organisation’s first female president. -
Google’s Chrome and Apps VP takes over reins of Android division News
13.03.2013 Changes are afoot at internet search giant Google – its senior vice-president of Chrome and Apps Sundar Pichai is taking over from Andy Rubin in leading the Android division,... -
VMware appoints Bill Fathers as VP for new hybrid cloud unit News
14.03.2013 Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure player VMware has appointed Bill Fathers as senior vice-president and general manager of VMware’s new Hybrid Cloud Services business unit. -
Dragons’ Den’s Cisco kid to advise start-up hopefuls at Exponential event News
13.03.2013 NUI Galway students, as well as members of the public, will be able to get the scoop on all it takes to start a business at an event in Galway City featuring Barry O’Sullivan,... -
Irishman’s Middle East deals website Cobone.com acquired News
11.03.2013 Irishman Paul Kenny’s Cobone.com, the largest daily deals website in the Middle East, has been acquired by international investment firm Tiger Global Management. -
Noel Meaney sells ownership stake in Citadel100 data centre group News
11.03.2013 Irish data centre and telecoms entrepreneur Noel Meaney has sold his ownership stake in Dublin-headquartered Citadel 100 Datacenters Ltd. The 50pc stake was acquired by Securus... -
Weekend news round-up: YouTube founder plans video rival, Intel’s CEO hunt News
11.03.2013 In our round-up of the weekend's top tech news, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley is working on a mysterious new start-up that will enable video collaboration, Intel is believed to...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Operating Systems, Leadership & Management, Internet, Consumer Tech -
Tech start-up of the week: ALR Innovations News
10.03.2013 Our start-up to watch this week is University of Limerick spin-out ALR Innovations, a developer of recycling equipment for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in worldwide markets. -
High-potential start-ups to create 1,600 new jobs in three years News
06.03.2013 Some 97 high-potential start-ups (HPSUs) backed by Enterprise Ireland this year will generate 1,600 new jobs and will generate exports of €300m within three years, Small... -
Icahn vies for a 6pc stake in computer giant Dell News
07.03.2013 Renowned US corporate raider Carl Icahn, who urged Yahoo! to sell to Microsoft when it had a chance, has waded into the US$24bn refinancing of computer giant Dell and is aiming... -
Despite the gadgets, the mobile economy faces growing pains News
06.03.2013 Barcelona became the epicentre of all things mobile last week, as more than 70,000 telecoms and internet industry people gathered to reveal and observe the latest breakthroughs,... -
European business leaders worry most about losing competitive edge - study News
06.03.2013 European business leaders are more concerned about keeping up with the pace of technology-led change than those in Asia and North America, a new study about the impact of... -
Google team drives the creation of 19 new digital marketing jobs in Irish firms News
05.03.2013 Up to 19 jobs have been created in Irish companies as a direct result of the work of Google’s Large Customer Sales (LCS) division in helping educate the CEOs and marketing teams...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Internet, Digital Marketing -
AirSpeed turnover grows 40pc to exceed €10m News
04.03.2013 Wireless broadband and cloud services provider AirSpeed has reported a turnover in excess of €10m for 2012, up 40pc on the €7.2m reported the previous year. -
Cork's IT cluster looks to China to achieve its potential News
02.03.2013 Tech industry group it@cork has expanded its European Tech Cluster programme ‘Innovation That Matters’ to focus on building innovation networks between Cork and China.Categories: Upskilling, Training, R&D, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Intellectual Property, Digital Business -
The technology business week: tech M&A activity to increase this year, Facebook buys Atlas from Microsoft News
04.03.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Andrew Mason is out as CEO of Groupon News
01.03.2013 The co-founder and CEO of Groupon Andrew Mason, who pretty much kickstarted the daily deals facet of e-commerce but who in recent days presided over a considerable fall in the...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, Leadership & Management, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Compromise would soften Yahoo!’s ban on working from home News
26.02.2013 Employees of internet giant Yahoo! received a memo last week telling them that come 1 June, there would be no more working from home – a confusing order, considering what Yahoo!...Categories: Mobility, Management, Leadership & Management, Internet, In the Workplace, Communications