The Malahide-based cloud provider Ekco has bought a second leading Irish cybersecurity firm. It now employs 420 people in Europe, and has bigger growth plans.
Pharmapod’s assets were sold last year through a pre-pack receivership for around €1.5m. Now, creditors of the Irish software company are poised to wind up the remnants of the company.
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.
First, it went into examinership. A liquidation followed. Now, the company behind Slendertone has gone into receivership following a move by its main backer, the British lender Beechbrook Capital. The move could yet salvage the brand.
The High Court has appointed a liquidator to Galway-based wearable technology company Bio-Medical Research, the maker of Slendertone. The business had been in examinership since March but had failed to find a new investor.
KPMG is looking for a tech company to represent Ireland at the Global Tech Innovator final in Lisbon later this year. And that company will come from a shortlist of eight announced today.
Having raised €5m to date, the Dublin-based environmental data analytics start-up is about to add flood defence monitoring to its existing products monitoring the presence of contaminants in a range of situations. Its founder Stephen McNulty is on this week’s podcast.
The stocks of tech giants and start-ups alike are taking a beating. Some hire freezes will affect Ireland, but the type of multinationals operating here are least exposed to the crunch – for now.
It may have been a coincidence, but the days surrounding the billionaire’s deal to acquire Twitter with the self-confessed goal of deregulating the platform saw a series of events going in the opposite direction in Europe.
The Currency first revealed how the US semiconductor multinational had squeezed through the gap left between the ban on the double Irish and single malt structures. Now we have the full picture of how it works – and how efficiently.
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