Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to buy Nimble Storage in a deal valued at about $1bn (€943m), bolstering a higher-growth segment of the market for data storage.

Consumer confidence levels have dropped again, after a strong start to the year.

Staff are “devastated” after it was announced that 500 jobs are to go at the Hewlett Packard (HP) global print plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare as cost- saving measures to invest in new opportunities such as 3D printing.

Upwards of 500 people are to lose their jobs at the Hewlett Packard (HP) global print plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare, within the next 12 months.

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Since the opening of Digital Equipment Corporation in Galway in 1971 its legacy — now in the guise of Hewlett Packard Enterprise — is still as strong as ever, writes Dr Chris Coughlan.

Irish startup Pulsate has gained the backing of global payments company PayPal as well as government agencies and a leading investment fund as part of a $1.5m (€1.34m) funding round.

Dell increased the amount of debt it will raise in the investment-grade bond market after the computer maker received over $80bn (€70.7bn) of orders from investors.

When Cathal Mullane moved out of Limerick he had an idea he’d play on with his club back home, Kileedy. A couple of hours’ drive home for games? No problem.

The IFA’s former general secretary Pat Smith and president Eddie Downey find themselves as household names for all the wrong reasons.

The global investment landscape has been transformed since 2009.

Pre-tax profits at the Galway-based unit of computer giant Hewlett Packard (HP) last year plummeted in spite of revenues topping $413m.

It doesn’t take long to realise David Collins is not your typical county player or young man.

The Government’s spring statement, and Finance Minister Michael Noonan’s pledge to lure thousands of emigrants home, via more favourable tax measures, were as welcome as the flowers in May. Or would be, if either had an iota of credibility!

One hundred new jobs have been announced for Galway.

The Central Bank has encountered technical problems which have forced it to push back the deadline for firms to submit a key document in the regulator’s fitness and probity regime.

The war of words between Tipperary-born entrepreneur Mike Lynch and Hewlett Packard over the allegations of accounting irregularities at Mr Lynch’s former company, Autonomy, escalated in advance of the HP annual shareholder meeting yesterday.

Hewlett Packard saidAutonomy, the software firm it bought in 2011, overstated profits at one of its main British units by 81% in the year before it was sold in Britain’s biggest technology deal.

Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, has said its latest quarterly profit rose 36% as sales of smartphones and tablet computers more than doubled.

The expanding Galway unit of computer giant Hewlett Packard plunged into the red last year in spite of a 8% increase in revenues to $279.3m (€212m).

The Central Bank’s new multi-million euro outsourced computer system has already crashed following a power outage at Hewlett Packard which has been hired to handle the bank’s IT systems.

Of the 2,000 job losses reported this week, the 280 at Hewlett Packard are most significant. This is not to minimise the other losses; but people are accustomed to banks reducing staff levels.

A total of 280 jobs are to go at a Hewlett Packard facility in Dublin, it was announced today.

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has confirmed the revamp of the new welfare.ie website is costing the State €570,000.

The British Government will face a protest today as it launches a new benefit as part of a “fundamental cultural shift” of the welfare system.

A VISIT to the World Credit Union conference in Ottawa, Canada in July is expected to yield dividends for Kerry company ViClarity.

Ballybrit in Co Galway will spearhead the development of new software and cloud services for one of the world’s biggest technology firms, Hewlett Packard.

There is outrage among opposition TDs that the Central Bank has chosen to go ahead with the outsourcing of its IT systems, despite high profile failures of crucial banking systems in Ulster Bank last year.

The €300m funding for seven research centres by Government and 150 industry partners is a major step on our road to recovery, writes Seán Sherlock

The Government will today announce the investment of €200m in seven key research projects, directly creating 800 top-level jobs.

Dell, which intends to go private in a $24.4bn (€17.9bn) deal led by founder and CEO Michael Dell, plans to stick to its current turnaround strategy to diversify away from personal computers.

A total of 150 jobs are to be created with the establishment of a new manufacturing plant in Leixlip, Co Kildare, it has been announced.

Auditors are coming under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons and it appears that the profession’s public role of giving a ‘true and fair’ view of the state of a company’s finances is far from straightforward, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

A Co Tipperary man at the centre of a multi-billion euro corporate writedown said he was shocked at allegations of accounting malpractice levied against him by Hewlett Packard (HP).

Having defected from Google to head up its struggling rival, Marissa Mayer faces a daunting challenge to revive moribund tech giant Yahoo!, but her first set of quarterly results gives some cause for optimism, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

The Galway-based unit of computer giant Hewlett Packard (HP) returned to profit last year in spite of a 26% drop in revenues to $258.1m.

Touch-screen, app-enabled technology is revolutionising life, unifying phones, tablets laptops, TV and domestic appliances says Ed Power

Hewlett-Packard expects that Irish staff will be among the 27,000 jobs to be shed as part of a three-year global restructuring plan.

Some 4,000 workers at Hewlett Packard in Ireland are waiting to hear if their jobs will be affected after the company announced its to cut its global workforce by 8%.

Hundreds of new jobs could be in the pipeline for Kildare after Intel chose its plant in Leixlip as one of three places where it will create its future generation of chips.

THREE years ago Stephen Smith’s wife noticed something odd about his chest. The nipple was inverted.

Visitors to Blanchardstown’s retail mecca yesterday had a very different type of shopping list in their hands. At the top of it was ‘jobs’.