Technology companies in Ireland’s South-East have launched a major recruitment drive, hoping to fill almost 700 roles across 40 firms.

Bob Savage of Dell Technologies predicts landmark year for Irish digital, with PCs and other computer devices able to optimise power and battery life for our most productive moments, and with innovations driven by AI, 5G and IoT

Senior executives in many of Ireland’s leading pharma, life sciences and technology companies did ordinary level maths in their Leaving Certificate.

Giants of Ireland’s tech sector were celebrated at last night’s it@cork Leaders Awards.

Joe Dermody looks at a selection of cyber security companies which IDA Ireland has helped establish in Ireland.

THE future for software development in Ireland has never looked brighter, with companies of all sizes from multinationals to indigenous start-ups steadily expanding.

As the incoming Chair at it@cork, Anthony O’Callaghan is well qualified for the challenge, having spent four years as vice chairman alongside his predecessor, Caroline O’Driscoll, who steps down as chair in next month.

Tommy Barker finds that grey clouds are lifting, as colour makes a come back in Macroom new homes development.

Cork is fast becoming one of Europe’s most active and growing tech regions with 29,000 employees, adding to rapid growth in Ireland’s technology industry.

Founders of outsourcing firm Voxpro, Dan and Linda Kiely, have been named joint ‘Tech Person of the Year’ at the IT@Cork Awards.

IT@Cork, the voluntary group which represents more than 200 companies working within tech in the Cork region, has launched its annual Leaders Awards.

A Tallaght-based crafts blogger and a 99-year-old former Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who now takes to the virtual skies in flight simulators were among those honoured at this year’s Silver Surfer Awards.

Shares in computer services firm VMware — whose main Irish offices are in Cork —plunged yesterday after broadcaster CNBC reported it is considering acquiring Dell Technologies in a reverse merger, bringing Dell back to markets in what could be the industry’s biggest deal ever.

Apartments of this high calibre are rare within the confines of Cork City, writes Trish Dromey

The bosses of a company whose burgeoning global reputation has attracted clients such as Disney, PayPal, eBay, and Spotify have been named as Cork’s Tech Persons of the Year by their peers.

Tommy Barker says although a few decades old, detached Red Gables is well-sized and well-kept

When Pat Lucey and Colum Horgan faced the axe from Motorola — along with 300 of their fellow employees — in 2007, they turned the situation around to start their own company, Mr Lucey tells Pádraig Hoare

The O’Flynn Group this weekend launches a brand new development of 144 new-builds. 

A programme that sees new graduates and those with no tech experience trained for free by one of Ireland’s best-known IT companies could soon be introduced around the country because of its success in Cork.

An estimated 50 Cork-based jobs are to be cut at newly merged technology giant Dell-EMC, it emerged yesterday.

Staff at Dell and EMC’s Cork offices were yesterday brought up to speed with the ongoing merger of their two businesses, as Michael Dell flew in to address them.

A price drop this month after a pre-Christmas launch on the big, big seven-bed home named Belvedere House by Muskerry Golf Club just south of Tower near Blarney has kick-started bidding on this golf clubhouse-sized property.

Computer maker Dell has clinched a record $67bn (€59bn) technology deal to buy data storage company EMC.

Dell, the world’s third largest personal computer maker, is in talks to buy data storage company EMC, a person familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest technology deals ever.

Dell, the world’s third- largest personal computer maker, is in talks to buy data storage company EMC in what could be one of the biggest technology deals ever.

One of the world’s leading cyber security experts has called on the Government to invest heavily in combatting cyber attacks as new research reveals that more than eight in 10 Irish businesses have been targeted in the past 12 months.

A warehouse building with other potential higher-end uses in Cork city’s western suburbs, close to third-level college CIT, has had a price slash, so that now it can be bought for one third the cost of comparable construction.

Tommy Barker finds two similar properties with similar prices to tempt both investors and owner-occupiers.

Irish-founded customer communication platform, Intercom yesterday announced a €30m funding round which will see it double its workforce across its offices in Dublin and San Francisco.

BACK a few decades ago, when the mansard-roofed detached dormer Springmount was first built, it might have seemed a bit ‘out in the sticks’. But, now — while it is still reached just after a charming rustic chicane bend in the road by Carrigrohane’s Rocklodge — it seems as if many metaphorical roads are leading towards it.

There are two sources of viewing interest being shown in this clean, modern Tower, Co Cork, bungalow, and they are more or less at far ends of the age scale.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny hailed small businesses as the backbone of the Irish economy, during a tour of Cork yesterday.

 

WHAT’S probably the biggest bar complex outside of Cork City centre has come up for sale in boom-town Ballincollig, with a price tag to match.