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Pepsi licenses its brand to make US$200 smartphones in China

    Pepsi licenses its brand to make US$200 smartphones in China

With Android phones becoming so commonplace, so what if they are compared to sugar water? In fact, Pepsi appears to have gone full hog and licensed its trademark for use

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Twitter to cut 8 percent of worldwide workforce

    Twitter to cut 8 percent of worldwide workforce

Twitter is making rather significant cuts to its employee numbers after confirming it is to shed 8 percent of its staff. This is approximately 336 people and is part of

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SEKO Logistics awarded ISO 13485 certification

SEKO Logistics’ European MedTec control tower in Galway, has been awarded ISO 13485 certification. ISO 13485 is the known and trusted quality standard in the medical device industry and is adopted by authorities, suppliers and manufacturers

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JFC sets target of €100m

Plastic products company, JFC Manufacturing, is launching a marine products division in a move to double sales to €100m by 2020. The Glaway based company, which makes agriculture and civil

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Price increases of drug Daraprim could impact the global pharma sector

Overnight price increases of Daraprim drug by the US start-up, Turing Pharmaceutical is impacting pharmaceutical sectors worldwide. The company had acquired the right of the drug in August and immediately

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Over 5,000 Irish staff at Dell and EMC face wait on jobs news

    Over 5,000 Irish staff at Dell and EMC face wait on jobs news

The two computer giants confirmed the planned takeover yesterday in what is the biggest ever tech deal. Michael Dell, who founded the eponymous computer maker, and EMC boss Joe Tucci

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Aer Arann secures one-year contract to Aran Islands

Aer Arann will provide an air service to the Aran Islands until September 30th 2016. The Minister of State for the Gaeltacht Joe McHugh has announced that the extension of the

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Budget 2016: USC cut worth €1,000 for workers

    Budget 2016: USC cut worth €1,000 for workers

The final Budget before the General Election will see Fine Gael and the Labour Party seek to appeal to working families. Every worker in the country will be €1,000 better

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Oil market on course to stabilise with growing demand

    Oil market on course to stabilise with growing demand

Global demand for crude is growing while non-OPEC countries are producing less of it. This is helping to bring the supply and demand for oil back into equilibrium, OPEC’s Secretary-General

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Anheuser-Busch agrees £68bn take over deal with SABMiller

    Anheuser-Busch agrees £68bn take over deal with SABMiller

Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed in principle to buy SABMiller for approximately £68 billion or €92 billion, raising its bid after several rejections to clinch a record deal within the industry.

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Dell confirms acquisition of EMC for US$67bn in largest tech deal

Dell has confirmed it will buy data storage company EMC in a deal valued at about $67 billion, the largest on record in the technology sector. The offer is $33.15

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Despite a decline the construction sector continues to grow

The construction sector ended the third quarter of the year on a positive note, according to the latest construction Purchasing Managers index from Ulster Bank. Although the Ulster Bank Construction

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C&C under fire from shareholders after profit warning

    C&C under fire from shareholders after profit warning

C&C shareholders are pushing for a strategic overhaul of the company following a sequence of earnings downgrades, a profit warning and a massive writedown in the value of its US

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40 New Jobs at Connacht Whiskey Distillery

    40 New Jobs at Connacht Whiskey Distillery

A dream to bring pure pot still Irish whiskey back to the West of Ireland after an absence of over 100 years took its first official step when The Connacht

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Energy efficiencies delivered as RTÉ signs up to SEAI’s Public Sector Energy Partnership

  RTÉ has signed up to an energy partnership with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to adopt cost saving and efficiency measures to ensure its energy consumption is

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Budget package of tax cuts and spending hikes now set to be €3bn

    Budget package of tax cuts and spending hikes now set to be €3bn

In a note circulated this morning Conall MacCoille said the just-published White Paper on Estimates of Receipts and Expenditure showed that spending will finish 2015 €1.5bn higher than expected due

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Dell expected to announce $53 billion EMC merger today

    Dell expected to announce $53 billion EMC merger today

Dell will announce Monday that it’s acquiring data storage provider EMC, according to a person familiar with the matter, creating a corporate-computing giant in the largest-ever technology merger. Dell plans to

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National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition 2016 is Bigger and Better

Reflecting its continued expansion and development into an All-Ireland ‘must-attend’ annual event, the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition has switched to a larger and more conveniently placed

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3D printer Stratasys’ help save little girl with heart deformation

Heart surgery is no simple task, particularly when it comes to a five year old with a malformed heart and a potentially fatal condition. The surgical team at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital

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New Central Bank chief to be named after budget

    New Central Bank chief to be named after budget

Minister for Finance Michael Noonan will wait until after Budget 2016 to nominate a successor to outgoing Central Bank governor Patrick Honohan. Although the Minister had been expected to bring

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Consensus forecast predicts economy to grow by 5.6pc in 2015

    Consensus forecast predicts economy to grow by 5.6pc in 2015

The forecast, carried out by DKM Economic Consultants, based its estimate on projections from both Irish and international bodies such as the IMF, the EU and the OECD. It found

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Uncertainty for almost 6,000 Irish jobs amid Dell/EMC talks

    Uncertainty for almost 6,000 Irish jobs amid Dell/EMC talks

Dell, the world’s third-biggest personal computer maker, is understood to be in talks to combine with all or part of computer data storage giant EMC. A takeover offer would cost

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Applications now open for Accenture’s FinTech Lab

Today during the Startup Gathering it was announced that applications are now open for Accenture’s latest Fintech Innovation Lab. The Lab is supported by key players in the finance industry such

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Government actions the greatest challenge to exporters

Government actions and policies are some of the greatest challenges to UK exporters according to a new business survey conducted

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Laya healthcare appoints GMC and Neopost to plan for the future of customer communication

  Laya Healthcare has chosen GMC Inspire to deliver all customer communications. The agreement will enhance the customer communication process

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Tullow Oil regains it’s stake in Gabon

Irish-listed Tullow Oil has reached an agreement with the Gabonese government to regain its stake in oil fields. In a

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Dell reportedly in talks with EMC for one of biggest ever tech mergers

    Dell reportedly in talks with EMC for one of biggest ever tech mergers

Dell, the world’s third largest personal computer maker, is in talks to buy data storage company EMC, a person familiar

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Funds lost interest when O’Brien refused to budge on price

    Funds lost interest when O’Brien refused to budge on price

The warning lights started flashing over the weekend in the Carribbean, suggesting all was not well with Denis O’Brien’s plan

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Lidl to pay Irish staff Living Wage of €11.50 an hour

    Lidl to pay Irish staff Living Wage of €11.50 an hour

Lidl has become the first Irish supermarket chain to sign up to the Living Wage Campaign, pledging to pay staff a

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SuperValu create 20 jobs with new insurance venture

SuperValu has created 20 jobs after establishing a financial services division to launch a suite of home and car insurance

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Workday announces 200 highly-skilled jobs for Dublin

Workday a leader in enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, today announced the opening of its new European

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Sports Direct to acquire Heatons in €47.5m deal

UK firm Sports Direct International, founded by English billionaire Mike Ashley, has reached an agreement to pay a total of

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Credit union lending slumps to 15-year low

    Credit union lending slumps to 15-year low

Lending by Ireland’s 354 credit unions slumped to a 15-year low of €3.5 billion in the 12 months to June

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Irish Water to cut 1,200 jobs by 2021

Irish Water is to cut 1,200 jobs by 2021, according to parent company Ervia’s business plan published Wednesday morning. The

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Digicel IPO cancelled due to market volatility

Digicel, the telecoms group owned by billionaire Denis O’Brien, last night cancelled a planned stock market debut in New York

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McAuley Engineering to create 64 jobs

The engineering components firm McAuley Precision and McAuley Fabrication based in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland is to create 64 manufacturing jobs

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€130m made available for energy efficiency projects in Irish homes

The Government has set aside €130m as a dedicated fund to promote programmes for energy efficiency and renewable energy, with

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Whitewater Shopping Centre expected to sell for €150 million

The Whitewater Shopping Centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare has been put up for sale by its joint owners Ballymore Properties

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Hotel group Dalata planning to build up to seven hotels in Dublin

The publicly-quoted hotels group Dalata, which recently raised €160m in new equity capital to invest in buying existing or building

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Bord na Móna going green by 2030

Bord na Móna plans to stop harvesting peat by 2030 in what it described as the “biggest change of land

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Ryanair passenger numbers rose by 12 percent last month

Passenger numbers at Ryanair rose by 12 percent to 9.55 million in September, compared to the same month a year

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Ammeon expansion creates 100 tech jobs in Dublin’s city centre

Irish IT professional services company Ammeon is to create 100 new high-skilled jobs in Dublin over the next 12 months.

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Aryzta executives total pay packet drops by almost €10m in 2015

The total remuneration packages for executives at Swiss-Irish bakery giant Aryzta dropped by about two thirds to 5.2m Swiss Francs

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Rye River invests €4m in new Co Kildare brewery

Rye River Brewing Corporation has announced an investment of €4m to build a new brewery and visitor centre in Celbridge

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Central Bank raises 2015 GDP forecast to 5.8 percent from 4.1percent

Ireland’s economic recovery accelerated in the first-half, expanding from the export sector to the domestic economy, prompting the Central Bank

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Pretax losses double at Dublin-listed Merrion Pharmaceuticals

    Pretax losses double at Dublin-listed Merrion Pharmaceuticals

Merrion Pharmaceuticals says its survival is dependent on Declan Ryan’s Irelandia Investments not calling in an overdue loan as it

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Virgin Media is ready to launch its mobile service in Ireland

    Virgin Media is ready to launch its mobile service in Ireland

Virgin Media, formerly known as UPC, is to launch its new Virgin Mobile brand in Ireland on Monday 5 October

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Air France to announce “significant” job cuts next week

    Air France to announce “significant” job cuts next week

Air France will tell staff on Monday of “significant” job cuts after negotiations with pilots to boost productivity failed, the

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Paypal Ireland head warns of FDI threat due to rental crisis

    Paypal Ireland head warns of FDI threat due to rental crisis

Paypal has begun asking staff to make spare rooms available to new employees, because of the shortage of rental accommodation,

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Siemens ‘Partner 2020’ plan aims to lift Irish manufacturing to new heights

 Siemens is launching its ambitious Partner 2020 programme. The bold strategy is set to inject a fresh focus on supplying

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Irish energy R&D projects secure €18m EU funding in the last year

  Since last year, Irish energy research projects have successfully secured €18m in EU funds for Ireland.  That is according

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Ireland’s manufacturing sector expanding as exporters benefit from weak euro

Investec’s latest Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) improved marginally to 53.8 in September, comfortably above the 50 mark that indicates

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PM Group’s boss rules out flotation on profit rise

    PM Group’s boss rules out flotation on profit rise

Irish engineering firm PM Group doesn’t intend plotting a stock market flotation yet, with a strong enough balance sheet to

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280 new jobs as Accenture and Morgan McKinley expand

    280 new jobs as Accenture and Morgan McKinley expand

Accenture, the world’s largest consulting firm in terms of revenue, is to create 200 jobs new jobs over the next

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Irish manufacturing inches up from 18 month-low

    Irish manufacturing inches up from 18 month-low

After growing by over 5pc in 2014, Ireland’s economy is set to be the best performing in Europe again this

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Denis O’Brien’s Digicel is taking on Google, Facebook, and Yahoo

    Denis O’Brien’s Digicel is taking on Google, Facebook, and Yahoo

DIGICEL IS TAKING on the likes of Google, Facebook, and Yahoo as it becomes the first operator to block ads

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Ryanair chairman pours cold water on O’Leary plan

    Ryanair chairman pours cold water on O’Leary plan

Ryanair chairman David Bonderman has cast doubts on Michael O’Leary’s plans for his airline to provide connecting flights for long-haul

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New Zealand winery toasts deal with Musgrave to stock Graham Norton wine here

    New Zealand winery toasts deal with Musgrave to stock Graham Norton wine here

Cork retail group Musgrave – the owner of the SuperValu and Centra brands – has signed a deal with New

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