Facebook today announced that the company plans to more than double the size of its operation during the official opening of its new EMEA headquarters in Dublin.
Facebook’s European operations have been headquartered in Dublin since October 2008 with over 70 employees currently on site.
The company expects to double the size of its [...]

Imagine Communications Group today launched a new broadband service in Ireland based on WiMax, wireless technology, supported by Motorola and Intel. With an initial investment of some €100 million, the service is currently available in greater Dublin, Wexford, Sligo, Tralee and Athlone, with plans for rapid expansion.
Though concentrated in population areas initially, the service will [...]

US firm Lumension is setting up a new research and development centre in Galway, which will create 30 new jobs. The initiative is being supported by IDA Ireland.
Lumension, headquartered in Arizona, develops, integrates and markets security software that helps businesses protect their vital information and manage risk across firms’ networks.
The new centre in Galway will [...]

So as most may know and some may not, Boxer DTT pulled out of providing a digital TV service for Ireland late last month. Boxer had won the contract last year to provide the service throughout ireland. The company blamed the economic downturn(who isnt these days!) and “challenges” in reaching a deal on transmission facilities [...]

Electricity prices will fall by some 10 per cent and gas prices will be reduced by 12 per cent from the end of April, it was announced today.
Minster for Energy Eamon Ryan said the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) had carried out a review of energy prices over the past month after he asked them [...]

Ericsson is to lay off 300 workers over the next 18 months. All of the redundancies are to be sought at the company’s plant in Clonskeagh in Dublin.
In a statement, the company says that some of its Irish operations will be moved to other low-cost locations as part of its efforts to cut down on [...]

Dell will cut almost 2,000 jobs in Limerick in a cost-cutting measure.
The company plans to move all manufacturing from the Raheen facility to Poland over the next 12 months following a global review of its operations.
The measures at the 18-year-old Dell plant, which became a symbol of the Celtic Tiger boom years, dealt another blow [...]