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Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

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Top 5 Business Apps To Simplify Your Day

1 GOOGLE DOCS


Edit, export and view documents efficiently while you are on the go. Create new documents or edit existing files on an easy to use app that also allows you to collaborate with colleagues in the same document at the same time. You can even work offline if you need to.

2. SLACK


Create teams and message each other, assign tasks and create deadlines. Helpful for managing multiple projects with different groups of people.

3. REVAPP


Easy and secure access to Revenue’s services to help you manage your Irish tax affairs, on the go. This also gives you access to Receipts Tracker – the easy way to record and manage receipts for your expenses.

4. FLIPBOARD


This app brings together news, popular stories and conversations around any interest or passion. Download the app, select your interests and Flipboard will create a magazine just for you.

5. TINY SCANNER – PDF Scanner App


You will never have to worry about not being near a scanner again. Use this app to turn your smartphone into a scanner. This app also turns the scanned documents into PDF’s for safe distribution.

MUSICIANS ROYALTIES

Musicians are awaiting a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling this week on the payment of royalties to artists for music, or music videos, played in hotel rooms. The case challenges whether or not a section of Irish copyright legislation, the 2000 Copyright and Related Rights Act, goes against an EU directive on rental and lending copyright. Section 97 of the Irish act specifically exempts hotels from paying royalties to musicians for music played in hotel rooms by guests.

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THE FALLOUT FROM MORIARTY

It may have cost taxpayers €250m, taken aeons to publish its weighty conclusions and few people believe anyone will ever be prosecuted over its findings, but parsing the implications of the 2,300-page Moriarty report provides copious fodder for the Sunday broadsheets.

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END OF THE TV LICENCE?

Now there is no escape. Or so it would appear. The Programme for Government has proposed an end to the TV licence and its replacement with a public broadcasting charge which every household will have to pay “regardless of the device they use to access content”, The Sunday Times reports.

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THE SUNDAY TRIBUNE

The decision to pull the plug on the Sunday Tribune after decades of losses, may have more significance than most for Ireland’s political classes than many other closures (or threatened closures in this case as a stay of execution is still pending).

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BUDGET 2011 & FILM FINANCE

Taoiseach aspirant and minister for culture Mary Hanafin has lobbied her colleague Brian Lenihan to extend tax breaks for investment in film production in Tuesday’s Budget, The Sunday Business Post reports.

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JOSEPH O’CONNOR’S MOVIE

Author Joseph O’Connor is probably as well known these days for his radio diary on RTE’s Drivetime programme  but the prolific scribbler is on the verge of a major movie deal, according to a report in The Sunday Times.

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ELECTRONIC MEDIA

It looks like inveterate tweeter Ryan Tubridy has had enough of Twitter – learning the hard way it can be better for self-confidence to insulate oneself from the hoi polloi.

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ENTER THE DEN

If anyone wants to apply for the new series of Dragons’ Den, they have until the end of November to do so. The Sunday Business Post profiles the new female face of the panel, publisher Norah Casey, who replaces Sarah Newman.

Online applications can be made at www.rte.ie/tv/dragonsden.

NEW IRISH MOVIES

Is nothing beyond the reach of the Politically Correct brigade these days? Heck, you can’t even make a film featuring a few stereotypical paddies falling around the place after a few scoops too many.  Or can you?

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