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WP Engine’s chair and CEO Heather Brunner talks to us about her company’s growth in Ireland, why websites still matter in an AI age and what it takes to earn trust. Read more: WP Engine CEO on 10 years in Limerick and websites in the AI age
The New York-based start-up plans to use the funding to accelerate customer acquisition in the US, grow its go-to-market operation and continue expanding its engineering and product teams. Read more: Irish-founded legal-tech EstateMin raises €1m to scale in the US
New research from Origina suggests that companies may unknowingly be misusing their budgets when it comes to upgrading technologies. Read more: What is the ‘software tax’ and how is it affecting tech budgets?
Roughly 60pc of the reductions will come from within support functions, impacting developers and other professionals. Read more: Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as it seeks to reduce costs with AI
The probe will explore whether Booking.com’s efforts to identify and manage fraudulent listings and phishing scams is sufficient. Read more: EU regulators open investigation into Booking.com’s fraud response
Yvonne Coppinger discusses the skills she learned in the early days of her career, the joy of never knowing which might ones be needed next, and mentoring the future leaders of the industry. Read more: The engineer who didn’t write a line of code until she was 25
Digital twins will train humanoid robots at scale before they ever enter the world, CEO Daniele Pucci said. Read more: Italy’s Generative Bionics, AMD team up to train European humanoids
The round was led by Scaleup Europe Fund and the money raised will go towards accelerating Pigment’s autonomous planning capabilities. Read more: AI platform Pigment raises $250m in Series E funding round
Content chief Bela Bajaria and film division head Dan Lin announced their departures shortly before the latest quarterly earnings report. Read more: Netflix posts lukewarm earnings after 1,000 job cuts and key exits
Currently the live commerce platform employs roughly 130 people across Ireland, with plans to add across a number of its teams. Read more: Whatnot to double Irish workforce as it launches new European HQ
'Every part of it was shaped by the women we worked closely with throughout its development,' Aonghus O'Donovan said. Read more: Offaly engineer’s cooling bracelet named one of Time’s best inventions
PwC’s 2027 Digital Trust Insights survey finds Irish organisations trail their global counterparts on risk integration, incident testing, trust of AI agents and quantum security. Read more: PwC: Irish organisations ‘underprepared’ as AI reshapes cyberthreats
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