Online gift store makes value pledge
The launch of online gift store redribbon.ie represents a step into new territory for founder James Lenehan.
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Securing your good name
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. Or that’s the conventional business wisdom. But building an e-commerce website won’t necessarily cause a similar stampede. Before persuading anyone to part with their money on your website, the first thing you must sell to potential customers is a sense of security.
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Making the most of chaos
One of the characteristics of the IT industry over the decades is that it has tried to come up with plain language terms for general categories or related sets of technology, especially business software.
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New terminal may go biometric
The construction of Dublin Airport’s new Terminal 2 could see biometric equipment being considered as a security tool in an Irish airport for the first time.
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Survey highlights cost-cutting opportunities
Irish companies do not use 70 per cent of the software they have purchased, according to a new survey, while two thirds of Irish firms allow their employees to leave their computers on at nighttime and at weekends.
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Digitalfone creates 15 jobs
Mobile phone retail chain Digitalfone has created 15 jobs in a €1million expansion in the north-west. The company has opened three new O2 mobile phone retail shops in Ballina, Buncrana and Carndonagh. Company director Francis Callaghan said that Digitalfone would open a further two stores in Letterkenny and Sligo.
Paying the right price
At the best of times, the administration of payroll and human resources in any business is one of the most complex yet routine tasks in modern business. Implementing the rules of our national taxation and employee welfare systems can be a challenge, even for experienced administrators.
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Digicel share sale nets €20m for O’Brien
Denis O’Brien cashed in €20 million ($28.4 million) from his Digicel phone business this year, by selling some of his shares in an associate company to the main group.
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Cima report: Web 2.0 needs further consideration
One of Ireland’s biggest accountancy bodies has poured scorn on the” over-enthusiasm’‘ for Web 2.0 marketing strategies.
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UPC to offer Europe’s fastest broadband service
The country’s largest cable operator is to launch Europe’s fastest broadband service to 600,000 Irish homes.
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