Excerpts: An Irish tech start-up is aiming to provide nurses and frontline healthcare workers with more than €1m worth of free employee health and wellbeing benefits. And it has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise the money to fund the project. It estimates it could cost €100,000 to provide the service at cost price for around […] Read on » ServiceNow, the leading digital workflow company making work, work better for people, has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Sweagle, a Belgium based configuration data management company. The transaction will extend ServiceNow's DevOps and IT Operations Management (ITOM) capabilities, giving customers the ability to leverage machine learning to identify and help prevent potential misconfigurations from causing outages in […] Read on » Emails remain the marketing professionals’ choice for a communication channel. Not just online marketers, even consumers choose to have relevant emails and press notifications instead of constant telephone calls. This, of course, puts down the demand to maximize email marketing to make sure that the email conversion rate rises. Thanks to customer-oriented advertising and marketing […] Read on » In a matter of weeks, colleges and universities across the country halted face-to-face classes and moved instruction online. Students displaced from dorms are now grappling with the reality of food insecurity and even homelessness as the broader economy has stalled and jobless claims have soared. Dreams of economic mobility have been deferred for millions of learners […] Read on » Interesting interview with Mia Tobin 1 min pitch for what you do? I started Brewery Hops in 2012 in response to a boom in craft brewing in Ireland. I wanted to provide tourists with a unique experience to visit small craft food and drink producers. Almost every tourist makes the Guinness storehouse their first stop […] Read on » The Irish data centre market is booming but how is it coping with COVID-19? I talk to Russ Barker, Director of Vertiv Ireland about this and gets other insights in the Irish data centre scene including the other challenges the Irish data centre scene is facing and what makes Ireland a huge market for data […] Read on » The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has today published an overview of energy demand trends (including electricity, gas and oil) in Ireland since 01 January 2020. The data includes insights into energy use during April 2020, the first full month of travel and business restrictions arising from the COVID-19 public health emergency. Some of […] Read on » A recent global report by Hiscox Insurance has found that 41% of Irish firms had experienced at least one cyber attack event in a six month period from September 2019 to February 2020. These are among the findings of a study of 5,569 companies across eight countries that was commissioned by insurer Hiscox, which includes […] Read on » Difficulties in recycling electrical waste from household clear outs during lockdown could derail Ireland's compliance with EU targets after a record year, the country's largest recycling scheme has warned. WEEE Ireland was the second-best performing recycling scheme in Europe in 2019, with 38,594 tonnes of waste electrical items and the equivalent of over 44 million used […] Read on » By Simon Cocking, review of 4IR, AI BlockchainFintech IoTReinventing a Nation. Available here. By Dinis Guarda and Rais Hussin. The Fourth Industrial Revolution also known as 4IR is here to stay. There is no turning back. Because of its ubiquitous reach, 4IR technologies raise all kinds of concerns, and nations have to adapt and change. […] Read on » As the 1 July CAO Change of Mind deadline approaches and in advance of International Women in Engineering Day on Tuesday, 23 June, Engineers Ireland has renewed its call for Leaving Certificate students to engineer their future and consider a career in engineering. Students reviewing their CAO selection prior to the 1 July deadline are […] Read on » “The Coronavirus fallout might slow global growth in renewable energy but keeping successful projects going is critical to renewable-energy entrepreneurship, reducing deforestation, and improving public health.” The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting many Kenyan communities, which depend on the tea sector, as the tea sector’s output and demand in tea is falling. However, an innovative Kenyan project […] Read on » There were grave concerns and allegations about the scandal surrounding how the London Inter Bank Offered rate (LIBOR) was being calculated. This had led to LIBOR going to be replaced Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA). This is in effect the interest rate payable paid by banks for unsecured transactions in the British sterling market. At the beginning […] Read on » | |