A Limerick-based company is aiming to target a global market with €500m, reports Trish Dromey.

An international anti-virus and cybersecurity company, Cylance, is to open offices on Cork city’s South Mall: a formal jobs announcement and commitment is due within days. It’s one of several new office moves on the South Mall, with Irish Life Health also taking space on the street from next week.

In a week that saw 1,300 jobs announced by Apple and Indeed, Kehlan Kirwan talked with Steve Collins, CTO of Irish company Swrve, which announced a $30m investment and the acquisition of American business Apaptiv.io.

The Oculus Rift, the Virtual Reality headset now in the custody of Facebook, is unlikely to be released in 2015.

Mobile phones can help create smarter buildings and reduce the amount of energy used to power cities.

Easytrip Services Ireland, the provider of electronic tolling tags formed through the merger of Eazy Pass and eTrip, have announced the appointment of Ken Tormey as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

IONA Technologies has announced that 3 Italy, the mobile video company of Hutchinson Whampoa Group Ltd (HWL), has selected IONA’s Artix to help achieve interoperability between the wireless providers’ multiple-packaged and home-grown middleware systems.

Belfast based company, Amphion has announced that it has closed its latest funding round during which it raised $5m (€4.29m).

MORE than 40 angry Aghada and Rostellan residents protested outside Cork County Hall yesterday against plans to build a second waste treatment plant in their region.