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More good news in the Irish employment market – Citrix is expanding its Irish operations.

See Up to 30 new jobs for Citrix in Dublin for more details.

Tags: Citrix, Ireland

In Openet Expansion I recently expressed the opinion that the economy was picking-up in Ireland. The trend seems to be continuing, because eBay, LinkedIn, and IBM all made job announcements during the week:

• eBay to create 150 jobs at Dublin headquarters
• Networking site to open Dublin HQ
• New jobs at IBM ‘smarter cities’

It is great news, although I think that this trend is mainly confined to the ICT industry.

Tags: eBay, IBM, Ireland, LinkedIn

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

I was delighted to read that TerminalFour has won a contract to supply Aer Lingus with a new content management system for its web site. For more details about this read Aer Lingus invests in web content management system.

Congratulations!

Tags: Aer Lingus, CMS, TerminalFour

I was delighted to read yesterday that Openet has launched an expansion program for its operations in Dublin. This expansion consists of creating 35 new jobs. Perhaps more impressive is the fact that these jobs are being described as R&D type jobs! For more information about this read Openet’s R&D investment creates 35 new jobs.

I have recently heard a lot of anecdotal evidence from friends and colleagues that the economy is slowly starting to improve again in Ireland. This would appear to be more evidence of this!

Tags: Ireland, Openet

I have almost completed my Christmas shopping for 2009. I did all of this online for the second year in a row! (Last year’s shopping is described in Online Christmas Shopping 2008.)

I did not buy a single item in Ireland this year, and this was mainly due to the ridiculously high costs. I understand that part of this is due to the higher VAT on items in Ireland (see Online Shopping just got Cheaper), but I also think that retailers are still ripping-off consumers. Indeed, the most expensive single item I bought was a piece of Japanese electronics. The Irish price was over 50%  more expensive than the price I bought it for abroad!

While I am writing about shopping, I came across a very entertaining online shop – http://producten.hema.nl/ (You need sound, and a small amount of patience, for this :D )

Tags: Ireland, Tax

I read yesterday that an Irish company called Cauwill Technologies won the Best Emerging Company category in the 2009 Seedcorn Business Competition. For more about the winners see Intertradeireland Seedcorn Competition Announces Winners.

Cauwill Technologies develop GPS based solutions for use with LBSs.

Tags: Cauwill Technologies, GPS

I came across an interesting article on company names during the week – List of company name etymologies.

I was familiar with the reasoning behind a lot of the listed companies, but some really surprised me such as Adobe and Apple!

Tags: Adobe, Apple

There were two interesting conferences on in Dublin this week.

• BizCamp Dublin in The Digital Hub
• The Global Irish Economic Forum in Farmleigh (I am sceptical about the number and quality of the Irish politicians involved in this conference!)

Unfortunately, I did not have time to attend either conference :( (Even if I did have time, I would not have been invited to one of them :D )

Tags: BizCamp, Ireland

I just heard this afternoon that a friend of mine has recently launched a new company called Glorsoft. In the company’s own words…

Glorsoft is a leading software company focused on the development of .NET based IVR and Voice Application development tools.

Our goal is to simplify telephony programming to the extent that any .NET developer can create voice applications without the need to learn any new skills.Velocity 2.0 is our flagship development toolkit.

I hope that this new venture experiences great success!

Tags: .NET, Glorsoft

A friend told me about this lovely graphic depicting the acquisitions and investments made by Amazon.

Amazon Acquisitions and Investments

Tags: Amazon