Financial boardrooms 30 years away from 30 female representation

June 13th 2016

It will take 30 years at the current pace of change for women to attain just 30% of the seats on executive committees in the financial services industry globally, an Oliver Wyman report said on Monday. Globally women account for only one-fifth of boards and 16% of executive committees in financial services, the management consultancy said. […]

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79% of Irish consumers will not forgive companies that mislead them

June 10th 2016

New research conducted by PSG Plus amongst a nationally representative sample of 1,000 consumers and 40 of the top Irish business leaders showed a potential disconnect between how consumers and Irish organisations perceive crises. The biggest fear for business leaders was loss of customer data through a breach or hacking (90%) while consumers’ biggest business […]

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Irish women are a lot less proud of their work achievements

June 08th 2016

Irish women are a lot less proud of their work achievements compared to other women globally according to survey findings released today by LinkedIn. Nineteen percent of Irish women which is marginally ahead of UK at 18%, say that they’re proud of their work achievements compared to 26% internationally. This lags far behind countries like […]

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UK company helps Irish SMEs with funding

June 07th 2016

It was announced today that a UK-based consultancy company today has launched their strategic operations centre in Dublin, creating 19 jobs. Alien Technology Transfer specialises in project financing, project management, development of concepts and business models for innovative products. They are planning to support their Global growth from their new Irish hub in Dublin City […]

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Dublin now one of top 5 transatlantic hubs in Europe

June 03rd 2016

Decades after long-range airliners ended Ireland’s role as the stepping stone to Europe for Americans, who sipped Irish coffees as their propeller-driven planes refuelled, the country is slowly re-establishing itself as a major transatlantic aviation hub. Last year Dublin for the first time entered the top-five rankings for transatlantic hubs in Europe, data showed, after British […]

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Facebook, Twitter YouTube, Microsoft back EU hate speech rules

June 02nd 2016

Facebook, Twitter, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft pledged on Tuesday to review requests for the removal of hateful content posted on their platforms within 24 hours as part of a code of conduct agreed with EU regulators. Authorities across Europe have been trying in recent months to get social platforms to crack down on rising online […]

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Digital Economy worth €12.3bn to Ireland

June 01st 2016

reland’s digital economy represents 6% (€12.3bn) of Ireland’s GDP and it is growing fast at approximately 40% since 2012. This is according to two reports which were published yesterday by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Denis Naughten. The digital economy is expected to expand to about €21.4 billion or 7.9% of GDP […]

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Ireland moves up competitiveness rankings in latest Global survey

May 31st 2016

It was announced yesterday that Ireland ranks 7th of the 61 countries benchmarked in the 2016 IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. This means that Ireland has moved up nine places in overall competitiveness from last year’s ranking. Furthermore, Ireland achieved top ranking position in a number of important sub factors such as Real GDP Growth, Flexibility […]

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