Few people realize that Israel, despite all its political problems, is one of the world’s most successful economies. Since 2004 its GDP has grown about 5 per cent a year in real terms every year except 2009, when the global economy crashed. And Israel has proved to be...
Carnarvon – The first of the 64 antennas of the MeerKAT telescope, the largest and most sensitive radio telescope in the southern hemisphere, and a precursor to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), has been completed outside Carnarvon, in the Karoo. Standing 19.5m...
Dublin student Kelly McCabe from Scoil Carmel Junior National School was named the overall winner of the sixth annual Doodle 4 Google competition. Beating off tough competition from 74 regional finalists, Kelly’s winning doodle will now be seen by millions of...
As the hype of the Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition for a $ 19 billion is beginning to die down, the questions remain – what impact will this have on your business marketing strategies? Firstly, for those who aren’t familiar with WhatsApp? Their website...
Stage One Technology – the WRC’s decade-long dedicated, reliable and accurate timing supplier – has concluded an agreement with Swedish firm Racetiming Sweden for the acquisition of its cutting-edge timing system. From 2002 until 2012, British-based...
Activist investor Carl Icahn picked up another $ 500 million of Apple Inc shares on Thursday to take his investment in the iPhone maker to $ 3.6 billion, while ratcheting up his months-long campaign to pry open the company’s cash hoard. Icahn, who repeatedly has...
Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has welcomed a UK contribution of R1.7 billion to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. Implementation of Phase 1 “The significance of this announcement … is in the impetus that this provides to implementation of...
An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D. this week launched UPC’s new 500 Mbps superfast broadband service which will be offered to businesses across the country, more than doubling currently available speed offerings, making a significant contribution to regional economic...
A brand intelligence tech start-up company backed by Queen’s University Belfast has been crowned ‘best tech start-up’ at the ITLG Silicon Valley Global Technology Forum. Adoreboard scooped the Irish Technology Leaders Group (ITLG) University...
Online music streaming service Spotify is recruiting a U.S. financial reporting specialist, adding to speculation that the Swedish start-up is preparing for a share listing, which one banker said could value the firm at as much as $8 billion. Meeting U.S. Securities...
