BRIAN DE STAIC, who runs a chain of jewellery shops in Munster, was named entrepreneur of the year at the Business As Gaeilge awards in Dublin on Friday night.

COGNOTEC, the Dublin-based company that provides foreign exchange software to banks, made a profit for the first time in 2004.

The woman at the centre of the UK High Court “Indecent Proposal” slander case is to be questioned by a QC via video link from Israel today.

TAKE one Irish multi-millionaire businessman, a rabbi and another man’s wife. Throw in $1m and some sexual innuendo and what you get is a ‘Jewish Indecent Proposal’.

Cognotec has been reducing its losses and increasing revenues in the past couple of years and it hopes to become profitable towards the end of 2003, according to its CEO Brian Maccaba.

Irish company Eontec has announced the opening of a new office in Tokyo, Japan, that will serve as the foundation for the company's expansion across Asia Pacific.

Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless company [NYSE:CWP] has announced that Cognotec, the e-commerce financial trading solutions provider, is using 2Way Web Services to facilitate its global internet transaction platform.

Standard Chartered has announced its adoption of FXall CONNECT from Cognotec.

The financial software company Cognotec is to shed 50 jobs, 30 of these will go in Dublin.