A €1.7m Government investment aims to turn 20 good research ideas into jobs with Irish and multinational employers.

The ESB is to enter the broadband market, with the network being used to roll out high-speed internet to 500,000 homes across rural Ireland.

The Irish-based unit of Alcatel-Lucent last year returned to profit to record pre-tax profits of €2.2m after revenues increased by 47% to €15.5m.

Alcatel-Lucent has said it will slash costs and cut 5,000 jobs after it posted a net loss for the second quarter of €254m.

Rescuers began a race against time to save the Haiti earthquake survivors today as a trickle of aid began arriving in the country.

Dublin: Mobile TV developer Solaris Mobile has teamed up with two French firms to pioneer trials of its product that uses satellite transmissions to stream content to hand-held devices.

Former BT chief executive Ben Verwaayen was today named as the new boss of troubled telecoms equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent.

Half of all consumers stop doing business with a company partly or wholly due to a poor customer service experience, according to a recent international survey.

SEVENTY jobs are to go in Dublin and Cork though employees have been spared the worst from thousands of job cuts announced by the telecommunications giant Alcatel-Lucent.

There's uncertainty surrounding hundreds of jobs at French-American firm Alcatel-Lucent in Blanchardstown, Dublin.

A packaging firm based in Co Limerick is set to lay off 80 workers after losing a lucrative contract with the Dell computer firm.

FRENCH stocks declined yesterday, paced by Alcatel-Lucent, the world’s biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, and STMicroelectronics, Europe’s biggest chipmaker.

Wall Street rebounded today, rising moderately as crude oil surged more than two dollars a barrel and triggered a rally among energy producers.