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UP TO 1,500 building jobs could be created over the next two years on the back of ten recent foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, the IDA announced today.
The IDA said that the recent flow of FDI projects would require a combined total of 1.5 m square feet, creating as many as 1,500 new jobs over two years.
The new buildings are required for life sciences, information and communications technology (ICT) and data centre sectors – with companies such as Eli Lilly, Boston Scientific, Allergan, Microsoft, Analog Devices, Google and Apple planning to construct new buildings.
IDA chief executive Barry O’Leary said the demand demonstrated the importance of the “secondary or spillover effects” that the recent FDI announcements posed for the construction industry.
Similarly, the Construction Industry Federation’s director general Tom Parlon said that FDI has been “one of the few sources for optimism” in construction at a challenging time for the sector.
“Many of the companies being brought to Ireland are undertaking major commercial and office construction projects to meet their needs, with the announcement by Apple that they are to construct a new building in Cork being the latest example,” he said. “The jobs and economic impact generated by these new projects will be a shot in the arm to the industry and we hope to see further investment in the months and years ahead.”
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Not another one !
Facebook wastes enough of my time.
No one wants another social networking site.
It looks like Facebook already.
What a waste of resources
Awful name.
A social network site aimed at older fold would be a winner. Oh no, wait, we prefer just to be in the same room as the person to whom we’re speaking. How old fashioned.
Sean, you meant older FOLK, didn’t you? Now just drink your Horlicks and go to bed.
So, Sean, what are you doing on Twitter?
Let me pass you the werthers originals there Sean
Thank you, Adrian. Ask nurse to turn off the light.
I giv u the new google plus
Microsofts “ideas” department’s next challenge is to take on the Super Nintendo
I’m not working there so its not defeatist talk but really? This will flop. Facebook does so many things better than anything they’ll come up with. Just leave it alone and try some other market.
google will usually produce (buy) better apps than microsoft, and they’re still not even in the race…
Now wheres the sign in with google here? Doh…
Facebook is a marketers wet dream. When those telephone directory size surveys land on your mat, offering the free carriage clock and fountain pen, do you fill them in? No! They go straight in the bin!
Yet people willingly sign over all their personal data (including the fact they flip their pillow to the cold side) in a heartbeat to social networks.
I stopped using Facebook about 3 years ago. Given their handling of privacy and constant T&C amendments and new feature bungles. I use Diaspora, Twitter and G+, but I limit the data I provide them and think before I post. If Socl can get right what Facebook gets wrong (taking Microsoft’s stake in the company to account) then they could be on to a winner.
In the words of The Miz on WWE Really. Microsoft feels left out they try to after another corp because they got beat before they let the world know about Bing.com. Really come on.
http://www.unthink.com is worth a look
Microsoft really needs to just stick to enterprise software, on the consumer end they have no new ideas, they never had. They just copy everything badly, thats fine, the problem is that they do it about 4 years too late and waste cash. Look at the Zune player, Sliver-light and possibly Windows Mobile to name but a few.
I had a first-generation zune and it was a quality device… A lot better than the iPod in fact. Pity it didn’t sell better than it did, but it had no chance against apple.
Windows Mobile also looks good from any time that I have played with it….
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