A bad month is getting worse for US and European semiconductor stocks.

More than 230 jobs are to be created through the construction and operation of a €14m engineering training centre of excellence at Limerick Institute of Technology.

Could the problem of flooding in Ireland be solved using cloud technology? That is one of the questions being thrashed out at a two-day Hackathon hosted by Analog Devices International in Limerick.

Career opportunities in the engineering industries in the Mid-West will be showcased at an event in Limerick next week.

The US stock market eked out another record close ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday as investors assessed the latest reports on the economy and some corporate earnings.

Cash-strapped third-level students are being offered hot meals for €3 in a bid to put healthy and affordable eating at the top of their menu.

A REUTERS examination of accounts for hundreds of subsidiaries of the biggest US technology companies shows most do not declare a tax residence for their main business in the biggest European markets.

A tired but exhilarated BT Ireland team are reflecting on what was certainly the best ever BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition.

Analog Devices last night reported its fourth-quarter net income was $179.19m (€138.48m) or $0.58 per share, compared to $183.53m or $0.60 per share in the comparable quarter last year.

Funding worth a total of €39m was announced today for 30 flagship scientific research projects which will support the work of over 150 researchers.

It’s nearly two years since former chairman of Intel Craig Barrett delivered his broadside, warning that unless we dramatically improved our education system we will become a European backwater.

Limerick Institute of Technology has unveiled two major funding initiatives to help companies get off the ground.

Groundbreaking research in the area of life sciences and information technology was recognised at the Invention of the Year Awards at University College Cork last night.

MICROCHIP maker Analog Devices Inc last night posted a quarterly profit that missed market expectations, hurt by a fall in revenue at its industrial and communications segments, and forecast a first quarter below Wall Street view.

THE IDA said it is trying to lure cloud computing and financial analytics firms to Ireland, as it announced 560 jobs are to be created.

UP to 100 highly-paid engineering jobs are to be created at a new €50 million R&D facility at the Analog Devices plant in Limerick.

TECHNOLOGY ideas will be nurtured into start-up businesses in two industry- led institutions launched yesterday by Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton.

GERRY WYCHERLEY is a director of Templeford Ltd and the Marina Commercial Park.

IRELAND’S research reputation and job-creation potential is to get a major boost through a €359 million investment that will create almost 2,400 jobs, according to Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

Analog Devices has announced a €23m investment in Research and Development at their operation in Limerick.

SOME of the leading global and Irish names in technological and medical devices will have their key research work carried out in a Cork facility under a €5 million investment by Enterprise Ireland over the next five years.

Analog Devices Ireland today announced a partnership with the University of Limerick’s engineering faculty to develop a scholarship programme valued at in excess of €125,000.

STUDENTS at a Limerick boys’ secondary school yesterday received bursaries to encourage them to pursue studies in the sciences.

FOR a second successive day, the mid-west yesterday took another serious hit on the jobs front.

Analog Devices announced today that, as part of its overall strategic manufacturing plan, the Company will close its separate Limerick 'Wafer Fab six inch' operations by the end of 2008 and integrate it with the 'eight inch fab' operation.

EMPLOYERS from across the mid-west will gather for a bigr business meeting in Shannon tomorrow amid concerns that the loss of Aer Lingus’s Heathrow link will cripple the regional economy.

GOVERNMENT plans to develop a knowledge-driven economy were given a massive boost yesterday with the announcement of 170 high-end research jobs at the country’s largest information and communications technology (ICT) research centre.

Life threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes could soon be diagnosed at home, it emerged today.

THE University of Limerick has been given €4.34 million for its mathematics research programme from the Science Foundation of Ireland.

BT IRELAND has cut costs at Analog Devices and increased their network speed with the introduction of a converged voice and data network.

An €11.7m national centre for software engineering research will be established in Limerick to ensure the country is equipped to excel on the world stage, it was confirmed today.

THIRD-level scholarships worth up to €160,000 and financed by JP McManus were last night presented to eight students who completed their Leaving Certificate exams at CBS Sexton Street in Limerick.

US computer giant Analog Devices is to provide a full-time research scholar for the University of Limerick as part of the university’s latest fundraising campaign.

BT Ireland saw its first-ever operating profit in the final quarter of the financial year to the end of March 2005, the company announced today.

WORKERS at a Limerick factory frantically tried to resuscitate a man after pulling him unconscious from a duct he was cleaning, an inquest heard yesterday.

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan is expected to press ahead with the appointment of three new Aer Rianta boards this Wednesday — despite the refusal of three current members to resign.

LEADERS of cutting edge electronics companies yesterday urged Leaving Certificate mathematics and physics students to make a last-minute switch to technical subjects on their university applications.

THE boundaries of Limerick will have be extended to allow the mid-west capital develop into a prosperous gateway city.

TWO Cork students have brought face-recognition techniques seen in the movies to real life.

A total of 94 jobs are to be cut at Analog Devices at Raheen Industrial Estate in Limerick City.