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EMC EXPANDS RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT PRESENCE IN CORK
EMC has expanded its cloud computing, big data and
data centre research programmes with the establishment
of EMC Research Europe, which is headquartered
in the company’s Centre of Excellence (COE) in
Ovens, Cork.
The new facility will advance the EMC Innovation Network,
a worldwide collaboration of advanced technology
researchers across EMC and its university research partners,
and strengthen the company’s longstanding commitment
to technology innovation and university research
and collaboration across the region. EMC’s anchor university
research partner in Ireland is University College
Cork.
“The collaborative nature of this announcement highlights
the strong relationships which exist between industry
and academia as part of Team Ireland,” said Barry
O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland.
Jim Murren, IDA manager western region; Minister
for State at the Department of Enterprise,
Jobs and Innovation, John Perry TD; Peter
O'Hara, Metal Improvement Company’s VP of
sales and marketing for Europe and Asia; and
Ben Hayes, regional sales manager for UK and
Ireland for Metal Improvement Company
PAYPAL CREATING 150
NEW JOBS IN DUBLIN
Online payments provider PayPal
is creating 150 new jobs at its European
operations and customer
service headquarters in Blanchardstown,
Dublin.
These new roles, which are in addition
to over 200 already announced in
the last two years, will support the
company’s growing European business,
which achieved US$1bn in revenues
for the first time in 2010.
“PayPal’s continuing success story
means that we need to expand our excellent
team in Dublin for the fourth
time in the last two years,” said
Louise Phelan, senior director for
global customer services and EU
merchant services, PayPal European
operations.
PayPal’s European operation centre
opened in Dublin in 2003. Since then
staff numbers have increased from
just 25 to more than 1,200 today. In
2009, the company invested €15m in
the establishment of a European Centre
of Excellence in Blanchardstown,
with the support of IDA Ireland. The
Dublin centre manages all direct customer
contact for PayPal’s businesses
across Europe.
LINKEDIN
ANNOUNCES 100
ADDITIONAL JOBS
IN DUBLIN
Online professional network
LinkedIn recently marked its
first year in Ireland with the announcement
that it would be
creating 100 new jobs during its
second year here.
“LinkedIn has continued to expand
since we opened our international
headquarters in Dublin
in March 2010, working closely
with IDA Ireland,” said Connie
Gibney, international human resources
director at LinkedIn.
“Since then, we’ve added more
than 70 people to our team here
and 40 million additional members
worldwide.
“Ireland is increasingly one of
the world’s centres of talented
people with international language
skills and experience in
working for fast growing internet
companies,” she added. “This
makes it the ideal place from
which to support our continuing
growth in Europe and further
abroad.”
GALWAY FACILITY
FOR METAL
IMPROVEMENT
COMPANY
Metal Improvement Company
(MIC), a provider of
advanced surface treatments
and technologies,
has opened a new high
technology coating facilityinGalway.
The company will initially
create 20 technical
manufacturing jobs, with a
further 20 to 30 jobs
planned by 2015.
The new operating facility
in Galway will specialise
in the application of Parylene
PVD coatings typically
used in the medical device,
electronics and aerospace
market.
Barry O’Leary, CEO, IDA
Ireland, said the company
will greatly add to the medical
device infrastructure
already operating from Ireland
by offering a very specialised
and technically
advanced service to the
EMEA market.
Issue 2 Spring/Summer 2011 INNOVATION IRELAND REVIEW 11