Ireland's tech giants are continuing to find creative ways to address the gender imbalance in the STEM sector, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

Joe Dermody looks at the people who made moves in business this week.

Facebook moderators, who claim their mental and physical health has suffered because of the graphic content they have had to view as part of their work, are to take personal injury claims against the social giant through the Irish courts.

The annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), the representative body for HR professionals, took place recently at the conference centre in Croke Park.

Eve Kelliher gets the inside track from leading interior designer Deirdre Whelan.

Once upon a time, when black-and-white televisions were generally rented and butter was spared, planning a career path was straightforward enough. Go to school, get your exams — solely academic exams — and eventually get a job.

Cork-based Enterprise System Partners (ESP), which provides consulting and manufacturing services to life sciences firms around the world, has been bought by the international giant Accenture.

Most of us have heard all about the ‘gig economy’ — all those perspiring Deliveroo cyclists and exhausted Uber drivers, slaving away for pin money.

There was “very little documentation” provided to justify continuing a multimillion-euro contract for the provision of IT services to An Garda Síochána, the Public Accounts Committee heard yesterday.

Barry McCarthy tells Trish Dromey his firm’s software provides SMEs an automated foreign exchange solution

Kerry Group shares rose nearly 3% despite management cutting the upper limit of its full-year earnings expectations, writes Geoff Pervical.

The Department of An Taoiseach paid out over €120,000 to two firms to help run a two-day technology event in June. Leo Varadkar opened the Data Summit at the Convention Centre Dublin which hosted speakers included vice president and chief internet evangelist at Google, Vint Cerf, and Ireland’s data protection commissioner Helen Dixon.

The Department of An Taoiseach paid out over €120,000 to two firms to help run a two-day technology event in June.

How do we encourage young girls to pursue careers in STEM? Andrea Mara meets the women who think they’ve found the answer. 

Parents and teachers must be better informed if they are to encourage girls to pursue science studies and careers, new research suggests.

Parents and teachers must be better informed if they are to encourage girls to pursue science studies and careers, new research suggests.

Three out of four Irish financial services companies believe their business is at risk because of the burgeoning fintech industry, a new report has found.

A cancer survivor who used his time in treatment to come up with a way to match schools and substitute teachers has been shortlisted for a youth enterprise award.

Some 4,000 teenage girls will meet role models for advice on careers in science and technology next month.

Women’s portraits have been hung on the walls of the country’s leading academic body for the first time — 230 years after its foundation.

An Irish SME has been recognised as one of five companies at the forefront of healthcare innovation alongside some of the world’s most recognisable businesses including Apple and Uber.

An exciting initiative helping secondary school students make the right choices in terms of colleges and courses is expanding to cover Cork, Limerick, and Galway this year.

A leading linen and laundry company plans to create up to 200 jobs over the next two years as part of a €12m investment in a huge new facility in Cork.

The 2016 Olympic Games have forced the PGA Tour to make one-off changes in their schedule for the 2015-16 season.

Children’s Minister James Reilly yesterday defended a decision by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla, to pay a company over €120,000 to review the organisation six months after it was established.

Stereotypes and negative perceptions are holding girls back from science and technology subjects and careers they know to be well paid and rewarding, a survey showed.

Margaret E. Ward and Norah Casey debate whether or not an arts degree is a waste of time.

Choosing a career is one of the most important decisions of a woman’s life and it’s never too early to start planning, writes Paula Neary

Smartwatches for kids that serve as electronic tagging devices with panic buttons were among the hi-tech gadgets showcased at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Big Four accountancy firm PwC was accused of promoting “tax avoidance on an industrial scale” to numerous multinational firms in a scathing report by MPs today.

Global management consulting and technology services company Accenture is to create 250 jobs here by the end of August while a sales firm is to create 100 jobs in Dundalk.

Accenture is set to hire around 250 people into its workforce in Ireland by September this year.

An organisation that denies it pays bonuses — but admits its staff can earn "performance related awards".

Children will be allowed just one free shower and one toilet flush a day under revised water allowances ahead of the introduction of charges next year.

One in four current account holders in the UK would consider using a purely digital bank with no branches or call centres, according to research.

Something needs to be done to increase female representation in the science, technology, engineering, and maths sectors, and McAfee is to the forefront, writes Claire O’Sullivan.

The HSE paid almost €200,000 for two widely criticised external reports claiming up to €210m could be cut from the medical cards system — 10 times more than was ultimately slashed from the budget.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that Cork-based firm Abtran was last year paid €3.58m inclusive of Vat for providing telephone call handling for the local property tax and household charge.

A Dublin City centre hotel, which previously traded as a Holiday Inn, is for sale for €9m.