A NEW PROCLAMATION
It’s over. The Irish love affair with property ownership is coming to an end and in future people will rent rather than buy, according to a new book by Gerard O’Neill, the chairman of market research company, Amarach.
Tag: Innovation
WORKY IS REPOSITIONED
Ray Nolan, who set up the successful Irish accommodations company Web Reservations International, is to relaunch his website Worky, which provides a service that matches jobs to candidate skills.
HOMEWORKING
“Homework pays off for start-ups” was the intriguing headline on a half-page feature in the Sunday Times. The article underlined the ever-expanding value of running small businesses from home.
GOOGLE OFFERS PC PHONE SERVICE
Google has set up an Irish-based software company that will allow users to place their calls from their PCs in Europe.
GOOGLE EXPANDS IN IRELAND
Google is to establish an operations centre at the Eastpoint Business Park in Dublin, creating 200 jobs. The centre will look after the technology firm’s location-based products, such as Google Maps and Google Local.
SELF SANITISING DOOR HANDLE LOSES OUT
What the Sunday Independent calls a “revolutionary” new boot which promises to bring comfort to the ski slopes has beaten a number of quirky Irish inventions to win the James Dyson Award For Design.
NEOVIA
Dermot Desmond has upped his stake in online payments company Neovia to 29.8% from 28% previously to become its single biggest investor, the Sunday Tribune reports. The deal cost the Gibraltar-based tycoon around £823,000 – the London-listed public company was valued last week at €89m.
INTERTEK
Independent quality control is a booming industry now valued at €75 billion and it isn’t difficult to see the reason for its growth over the past couple of decades. The damage product recalls can do to a brand both in terms of repeat production costs and subsequent reputation can be decimating.
FINDING YOUR WAY BY PHONE
An Irish software company has developed what it claims is the first real-time traffic navigation system for smart phone users. Twaffic Navigator provides traffic flow updates every five minutes to its users and can generate advance warnings of potential bottlenecks, such as accidents, road works or road closures.
THE RIGHT DIRECTION
Knowing where you want to go is an important factor in any business – but former naval navigator Greg Delaney made it the central part of his. Delaney launched a new compact digital address system last week that maps out every location in the country with a code.
COLLAPSE IN RESEARCH FUNDING
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) is predicting its research funding will collapse over the next five years, leading to a loss of 1,000 jobs.
IT ALLIANCE
Philip Maguire is quite content to acknowledge his company will probably never be a household name but the entrepreneur behind IT Alliance is laughing all the way to the bank and provides the main interview in The Sunday Business Post.
In one of the those ironic twists that permeate the new technology industry, Mark Zuckerberg comes across as one of the most anti-social individuals anyone would likely have encountered while in college.