Amy Hughes has taken on a new role as sales manager with Envisage Cloud. Plus a selection of other people beginning new roles with companies in Ireland.

Apple and other large multinational firms are unlikely to scale back their Irish operations due to the abolition of the so-called "Double-Irish" tax loophole but it will prove challenging to encourage similar companies to set up here in future.

Irish telecommunications company Blueface Mobile is lining up a potential acquisition in Italy.

Voice over IP - using IP networks like the Internet to make phone calls - is making substantial inroads into Irish homes, according to new research commissioned by Blueface.