IBM

Tech company says the new roles will be spread across locations in Dublin, Cork and Galway

Former OpenText executive Helen Kelisky taking on the role

Iseq in Dublin creeps into positive territory as major bank stocks outperform

Shares of the IT giant jumped as much as 7% aftermarket before easing to trade flat

Our blindness to ageism is puzzling as it is a prejudice against our future selves

IBM’s z15 mainframe promises a better performance and increased efficiency

Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook account for quarter of index

Supply chain specialist to pay €10.35 per sq ft in long-term lease at Clonee scheme

Translation and localisation specialist bought by Italian company Star7

Emission-cutting proposals do not force commerce to rectify actions imminently

High-security cloud system will be used by GCHQ, MI5 and MI6

Heavyweight stocks drag down Iseq in Dublin but leisure stocks make small recovery

Move follows recruitment of new customers says Irish firm

Company reports near 10% rise in revenue to €19.9m as pretax profit climbs to €1.57m

Card issuer records 40% drop in pre-tax profits as revenues jump 60% to €284.7m

Chief executives from tech, energy, banking, insurance and education meet at White House summit

Next stage of development will be chatbots designed to be proactive, experts say

Mastercard to phase out magnetic strip, as Twitter introduces new features

Strip on the verge of becoming obsolete with chip technology being increasingly used

Companies orders moves given rapid spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19

Energy Services and Straightline Energy Solutions come together to form Action Zero

Sheehan is currently Vodafone UK’s enterprise director and will begin new role in October