Full coverage: Software

Investors and staff in National Broadband Ireland set out to commercialise the skills acquired in open-access telecoms software and made a deal in the UK, but a major shareholder has now written off the value of X3T.

Tines is on course to hit revenues of $100m in the next quarter. Its co-founder Eoin Hinchy explains why it is launching a new product called 3B to help enterprises govern AI workflows, apps and agents.

Jake Ryan and JD O’Hea are spending the initial funds raised by their Amazon seller assistance start-up on hires in the megacity. They explain how AI is shaking up software engineering and developer recruitment.

Principal Logistics Technologies, which is more than 30 years old, builds software for the logistics and warehousing sectors and is active across Ireland and the UK.

Eoghan Mulcahy was selected for the world’s most sought-after start-up bootcamp with his software company Ten.Dev, which is about to launch its first product. This is what the experience taught him.

Aislinn McBride is one of the most senior technology leaders at Kainos. As the Belfast software group’s international expansion pushes revenues past £300m, she openly discusses its next challenges: finding and keeping staff, fending off cyber attacks and exploring the ethics of AI.

The US software multinational has just revealed how a simple intra-group balance sheet reorganisation with no gain in value allowed it to generate a $1.4bn tax benefit in Ireland.

In the latest installment of the Mapping Multinationals series, we unlock Microsoft's Irish presence - the tax tactics, the IP moves and the dividend strategy.

Con Conlon’s data intelligence business took toil to make a success. But his backers showed patience and were rewarded with a 20-fold return when the business was sold earlier this year.

Irish companies are making their mark on the software-as-a-service industry – despite emerging concerns that the sector’s breakneck growth rate could hide the risk of a bubble.