For this week’s Q&A, Kehlan talks with Micheal O’Gorman from Xanadu Consultancy, a global gaming technology services provider which recently signed a multimillion-euro contract with Matchbook.com, a global betting giant.    

Cork company Xanadu Consultancy has landed a deal worth millions of euro to “future proof” one of the world’s leading online betting exchanges.

Here’s a run down of today’s business headlines.

Having come agonisingly close to being named last year’s emerging company of the year, Xanadu Consultancy is bidding to go one better in the larger SME category this time around.

"Xanadu" has often been a word associated with strongholds, from the original centre of Kubla Khan’s empire to a media mogul’s imposing mansion in Orson Wells’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane.

Irish technology company Xanadu is creating 120 new jobs in Cork.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny was given his first reprieve from anti-water charge protesters last night after none turned up at a Fine Gael party meeting he was attending in Cork.

There are fears for the future of up to 100 jobs at pharma giant Novartis following confirmation that it has shed 70 jobs in recent weeks.

A judge has given artist and former international model Jennifer Fitzgerald three months to quit her home in Sorrento Rd, Dalkey, and hand the keys back to a bank.

One of the largest, and best trading pubs on Cork city’s Northside, the 9,000 sq ft Groves in Blackpool, has been put to market by a receiver for €525,000, via agents Behan Irwin Gosling.

SERVICING an online gaming company that does $3.5bn of annual transactions has made jobs growth at Cork IT specialist Xanadu a one-way bet.