Preparing for the launch of a computer game called Kings of the Realm this summer, Dublin games company Digit Games Studio expects to have hundreds of thousands of players by the end of the year and several million by 2014.

Limerick firm EpiSensor is to create 10 new sales and development jobs, it was announced today.

Eventovate was formed in 2009, offering hotels in the area of event management a cloud-based option. Last year it secured €700,000 in funding. And now its founders are setting their eyes on the British market, writes Trish Dromey.

CORK-based technology company, Sensl Technologies, has attracted €1.5m in new funding — led by a €500,000 investment by the AIB Seed Capital Fund.

A €17m fund is being launched to encourage new firms to create jobs.

A €17 million fund for firms, aimed at creating jobs, will be launched today by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O’Keeffe.

XIAM, a Dublin-based technology company, has been sold for €20.8m.

CORK needs to establish an embassy in Dublin.

VENTURE capital investment in Irish companies has fallen overall by 22% in the last three months according to the latest Techpulse survey by Ion Equity.

SHARES in AGI Therapeutics got off to a flyer on the company’s first day of trading on the Dublin and London stock markets yesterday.

A PHARMACEUTICAL company fronted by former Elan executives plans to raise over €40 million from a stock market flotation.

A DUBLIN technology company which had retained losses of €2.3 million at the end of 2004 has been sold for about €45m.

A CONSORTIUM of investors has pumped e14 million into a television station due to launch this year.

Ireland’s newest national television station has secured €14m in funding from investors, it was claimed today.

EMBATTLED UCC president Gerry Wrixon is to pocket €8.4 million from the €24m sell-off of the campus company, Farran Technology, to British defence giant the Smiths Group.

SensL Technologies, a spinout from the National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC) at University College Cork (UCC), has raised €1m in an investment round led by Delta Partners.

SOFTWARE company Altamedius, formerly called Artic Web, has been acquired by American company Qpass for an undisclosed sum.

IT firm PXIT has acquired the Boston-based FiberGrade, a developer of optical transmission monitoring technologies, for $3 million.

IRISH venture capitalists’ investments in Irish companies broke all records in 2003 hitting €255m and there is a further €250m looking for suitable deals.

Prime Carrier, a Dublin based telecoms software company, has raised €5.25m in second round funding to go towards financing its expansion.

Telenor Interactive, the US arm of Norwegian mobile communications company Telenor Mobile, has purchased the XIAM Media Platform. It will use the platform to provide mobile interactive services to North American broadcasters.

SchlumbergerSema and XIAM have announced details of a new business alliance that will enable the two companies to bring powerful telecom operators throughout the world.

Similarity Systems, the Dublin based data quality management software vendor, has announced it has secured an additional €2m in a round of financing led by AIB Equity. Other new investors in this round were Ion Equity and HotOrigin.

Irish call centre solution company Braxtel has gone into receivership.

BuildOnline has announced that it will combine its German operation with rival collaborative software company, MyBau, making it the larges independent supplier of eBusiness software and services to Europe's € 815 billion construction industry.

BuildOnline has announced that it will combine its German operation with rival collaborative software company, MyBau, making it the larges independent supplier of eBusiness software and services to Europe's €815bn construction industry.

Headway Software has announced that its reverse engineering product, Headway reView, has won the Crossroads A-List Award for Software Visualisation and Comprehension.

Dublin company Altamedius, formerly Artic Web, is to provide micro payment services to Eircell Vodafone's 1.6 million customer base.

Aircraft Management Technologies and Fujitsu have announced a long-term global alliance for developing and marketing solutions for airline operations.

The venture capital company DeltaPartners has closed its EUR 90 m fund named "Equity Fund II" by adding another €25m, compared to its initial closing in February.