TWO years after its first outing, the Irish Global Economic Forum returns today, this time to Dublin Castle and not to Farmleigh, where it was held amid much fanfare in September 2009 by the previous government.

Former US president Bill Clinton will join hundreds of influential figures from the Irish diaspora for a major economic forum in Dublin next month, it has been announced.

FORMER US president Bill Clinton has been approached about attending Ireland’s second global economic forum in October.

FROM an Irish standpoint, capitulation on the 12.5% corporation profit tax would set the prospects of the economy back a step too far.

THE University of Limerick will welcome, Craig Barrett, chairman of the Irish Technology Leadership Group (ITLG), along with a delegation of technology executives and investors from Silicon Valley for the third annual Silicon Valley Comes to Ireland 2010 event this week.

IRELAND must work harder to expand its indigenous hi-tech sector, in order to drive economic recovery, former Intel boss Craig Barrett said yesterday.

Cork: The Engineers Ireland Annual Conference will take place at Silver Springs Hotel in Cork on April 22 and 23.

UNIVERSITIES have rejected concerns that student grades are being hiked, despite Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s ordering an analysis of awards going back over a decade.

CRAIG Barrett, former CEO of Intel, has repeatedly pointed out that Ireland must invest a higher percentage of GDP in education and research and development.

FORMER Intel CEO Craig Barrett, quite rightly, has said our education system, especially in the sciences, is on the high road to disaster.

THE recently retired chairman of technology giant Intel has predicted we will end up an economic backwater if we do not radically reform how we educate our workforce.

OUR schools are producing students whose maths and science capabilities are less than the international average. That’s what Craig Barrett believes and if his views are shared widely in American business circles then we are in trouble.

A formal network of top minds from the Irish diaspora was launched today to help kick-start the economy and boost Ireland’s image abroad.

THE Government is establishing a secretariat in Silicon Valley through a €200,000 investment following a recommendation at the recent think-in at Farmleigh.

WE ARE, in so many deeply challenging ways, at a crossroads and tomorrow’s meeting of the Green Party to consider a revised programme for government represents just one of the many ongoing exercises to try to decide which path we might take.

THE quality of broadband connections in Ireland is inferior to that of less developed economies like Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania, according to an international survey of high-speed internet connections in 66 countries.

IT’S fair to say that the economic forum held in Dublin last weekend delivered a strong positive message to a nation that has become totally obsessed with the banking crisis.

IT seems Craig Barrett might be the man to give us a state of the nation address.

NEARLY 200 of the best international business brains converged on Dublin over the weekend to help inspire those charged with grasping an ailing Celtic Tiger by the scruff of the neck and forcing it back to its former winning ways.

THE former leader of one of the world’s biggest technology companies has warned Ireland is spending far too little on education and needs to correct the shortfall immediately if the country is to have any economic future.

Almost 200 influential figures from the business and cultural worlds will descend on Dublin today for a major economic forum to help pull the country out of recession.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has announced that 180 international thinkers and business experts will attend the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin later this month.

Details have been announced of the first ever Global Irish Economic Forum, which will be modelled on the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.

THE Taoiseach has written to some of the world’s top entrepreneurs and business leaders with Irish roots in an appeal to inject capital and initiative into the ailing economy.

Technology giant Intel is slashing its Irish workforce by up to 300 just three weeks after the multinational's chief said there was no immediate danger of cuts.

THERE must be more competition between retailers to ensure the country’s economy recovers as speedily as possible, the EU has warned.

CHIP maker, Intel Corporation, has revised upwards its projected sales figure for the second quarter to between $9.1 billion (€7.5bn) and $9.3 billion (€7.7bn).

INTEL chief executive Craig Barrett received $6.74m in pay last year and Paul Otellini, who will replace Mr Barrett in May, was paid $5.44m.

INTEL, the world’s biggest computer-chip maker, said fourth-quarter profits fell after the company slowed factories to work off inventory.

US stocks rose modestly in uninspired trading today as investors looked past a mix of economic data and falling profit forecasts from Google Inc. and Applied Materials Inc.

INTEL has named president Paul Otellini as its next chief executive officer, choosing a salesman instead of an engineer to run the computer-chip maker for the first time.

INTEL’S chief executive Craig Barrett hailed a new $2 billion factory in Leixlip, Co Kildare, as one of the best of its kind anywhere in the world when he opened the plant in June.

Chip maker Intel Intel has reported first-quarter profits up 89% and revenues up 20% as global spending on information technology picked up.

Intel chief Craig Barrett has urged government and business leaders to increase investment in information technology in northeast China, in order to improve the region's competitiveness.

MICHAEL BUCKLEY, the Corkman who heads AIB, saw a massive 48% rise in his pay packet in 2003 to almost €1.4 million, the bank’s annual report reveals.

Intel, the world's top semiconductor maker, has said fourth quarter earnings more than doubled from a year earlier as revenue rose to record levels.

Semiconductor giant Intel helped keep European markets on the front foot today after announcing a sharp improvement in quarterly sales and profits.

JACK DANIEL, an editor of papers for publications such as the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, spent $1,300 on a computer with an Intel chip to replace a three-year-old machine he said was too slow.

INTEL CORP, the world's biggest computer-chip maker, plans to invest $375 million (€345m) to build a second factory in China, expanding to take advantage of lower-cost manufacturing in the company's second-largest market.

INTEL, the world’s largest computer microprocessor maker, launched a set of chips that promise to make wireless internet access a standard feature on laptops within a year, changing the habits of computer users.

Share prices were higher in choppy trade as defensive buying in the pharmaceutical sector, gains among technology stocks and tobacco companies helped offset a weak retail sector after Sears issued a third-quarter profit warning, dealers said.

Intel will remain profitable despite the worst recession to hit the information technology sector in 30 years, according to its chief executive Craig Barrett.

Intel Corporation chief executive officer Craig Barrett said no signs of recovery in the global electronics industry are in sight as corporations are not yet seen making any additional investments.