Echelon Data Centres and SSE Renewables Deal Supports 250 New Jobs for Arklow . Irish-owned data centre owner and operator, Echelon Data Centres and green energy developer SSE Renewables have announced an agreement to develop a joint 220kV substation at the Avoca River Business Pa...

BOOST HER BIZ- Empowering black female business leaders . Global Invest Her has been running for the past 7 years, whilst hosting some in-person events in Paris, Dublin, and London. This year they are hosting their first BOOST HER BIZ global summit, and they ...

Mark Hughes Chargify on why the future office will be like SaaS, Pay to play . Ronan talks to Mark Hughes the EMEA manager of Chargify. Mark talks about the opening of their new HQ, why they’ve expanded their footprint to Europe, why they chose to do so in Dublin, who they’re loo...

Almost 2/3rds of Irish Businesses seek greater clarity on international data transfers . Uncertainty and ambiguity shroud the implications of the CJEU’s decision in the Schrems II ruling (‘Schrems II’) for Irish businesses. This is according to a survey from the Association of Compliance O...

VC funding increases 41% to €193m in third quarter despite Covid-19 . Despite the impact of Covid-19, venture capital funding into Irish SMEs increased by 41% to €192.8min the third quarter of 2020 compared to €136.4m last year, according to the Irish Venture Capital Ass...

Permanent TSB Brings Apple Pay to Customers . Permanent TSB today brings its Personal and SME customers Apple Pay, a safer, more secure and private way to pay that helps customers avoid handing their payment card to someone else, touching physical...

Accenture Report Finds Most Companies Continue to Struggle to Realise Full Business Value from their Cloud Initiatives . Despite years of focused effort, many enterprises are still struggling to realise the full value of their cloud investments, a new report from Accenture reveals.

In its latest report, “Sky High Hopes: ...

Spirited Away, BFI Film Classics, Andrew Osmond, reviewed . Published: 05-28-2020, ISBN: 9781838719524

Imprint: British Film Institute, available from Bloomsbury here

Spirited Away, directed by the veteran anime film-maker Hayao Miyazaki, is Japan’s most succes...

"The Read Aloud Cloud" Book Review . The Read Aloud Cloud is a new book by Forrest Brazeal who takes a comic book style look at what the Cloud is.

The Cloud has been transformative in many ways. Allowing startups to scale using a fraction...

Why Society 3.0 Needs us to Win Hearts, Rather than Minds, Damian Costello . Fascinating podcast interview and conversation with Damian Costello about his views on Society 3.0 and his conversion to the importance of environmental issues.

See more in his article for this year’s ...