EMC's $220m profit in sales boost

EMC CORP, the world's third-largest maker of data-storage computers, had a fourth-quarter profit of $220.1 million as acquisitions helped boost sales 25%.

EMC, which employs 1,300 people at the data-storage manufacturing plant at Ovens, Co Cork, made a loss of $63.9 million, or 3 cents, a year earlier.

Sales rose to $1.86 billion from $1.49 billion.