Term Time Campus Accommodation System (TCAS) Online has signed three licence agreements with thirdlevel institutions in Ireland in nine months. Valued at €100,000, the deals with Griffith College Dublin, NUI Maynooth and NUI Galway are for the provision of an integrated web-based solution to manage student accommodation.
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A market research firm based in Britain has paid €500,000 to take a minority stake in Irish-owned social media agency Simply Zesty. The move, by The Oxford Research Agency (Tora), a market research company specialising in FMCG and customer experience, values the Dublin agency at more than €1 million.
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Net Communications has announced a new partnership with Promethean, a British-based provider of interactive technology to the education sector. Under the terms of the agreement, valued at €1 million over 12 months, Net Communications will implement Promethean’s software in schools around the country.
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By Caroline Allen
Dublin firm VigiTrust has partnered with Comply Guard Networks, a US provider of network security services, to launch compliance software for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).
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FTI, an Irish-owned company based in Dublin’s IFSC, has secured a South African deal valued at €300,000.
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Dublin-based managed services provider Servecentric has secured a three-year deal with Tesco Diets, a provider of subscription-based weight loss services.
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In the basement of the Louvre in Paris, the queue for Apple’s iPad was far longer than that at the underground entrance to the museum to see the Mona Lisa and other iconic art treasures.
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By Catherine O’Mahony
Rupert Murdoch is to make good his promise to start charging for online content at the Times and Sunday Times. Readers will shortly have to pay £1 (€1.17)for a day’s access to the Times, or £2 for a week.
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By Dick O’Brien
S3, a Dublin software and semiconductor firm, expects revenues to rise this year and may raise fresh funding after launching a new product for cable television operators.
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It was always going to take something special to help dispel the jobs gloom – so who better than a jedi knight to bring some good news? Gaming giant Electronic Arts (EA) plans to hire 200 people at a customer service and operations centre in Galway after landing a deal to develop a Star Wars video game. It is expected that many of the new Irish recruits will work on the project.
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