Some 59% of small and medium business owners in Ireland expect the trading environment here to improve over the next year and a half, according to research published today.

A NUMBER of company directors in Ireland are being investigated in connection with an alleged lucrative phone scam.

THE cloud computing industry has the ability to revolutionise the economy over the next decade in the same manner as the IFSC did over the past 20 years — with nearly 20,000 new jobs a possibility — according to a new study.

A DUBLIN software company will create jobs after securing funding of €1.8 million.

SCHOOLS are to get the classroom laptop computers and digital projects promised by the Government under a €22 million investment in the new year.

Paul Rellis, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, has welcomed the appointment of Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn as EU Commissioner for Research and Innovation.

A €150 MILLION investment over three years in a laptop computer for every classroom in the country has been likened to supplying cars without roads because of inadequate internet access in schools.

Microsoft has today announced the availability of its new Windows 7 operating system.

IRELAND may have to wait another three years before seeing any economic recovery, delegates at the Small Firms Association (SFA) annual conference in Dublin Castle, heard yesterday.

Lisbon Treaty supporters and opponents clashed today trading insults and accusing one another of spreading lies to win votes in the looming referendum.

Fianna Fáil TDs are due to be briefed today about the details of the Government's planned NAMA legislation and the level of debt in the Irish property sector.

IRELAND’S rejection of the Lisbon treaty has created uncertainty among multinational companies here, according to the head of one of the country’s largest employers.

ALL students and teachers need access to the latest technology in class if young people are to meet the challenges of the 21st century, the head of software giant Microsoft Ireland has warned.

A GROUP of students are using flower power to impress the judges in an international technology competition by driving to the contest in Paris in a car fuelled by sunflower oil.

OVER the past few weeks, considerable media coverage has been provided to a small number of “high profile” business people who are calling for a no vote on the Lisbon Treaty.

AN EU think tank says Ireland will have the fastest-growing western European economy between now and 2020.

IN his letter (April 24), Brian Geoghegan tries to contend that the Lisbon treaty will bring about common corporate taxes in Europe.

TAOISEACH BertieAhern will deliver the keynote address at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) national management conference tomorrow.

I BELIEVE the recent call by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ireland for a ‘yes’ vote in the EU Reform Treaty referendum is the most significant development to date in the context of this campaign.