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AOL announces 40 new jobs in Dublin

The US tech giant is expanding its Irish operation.

THE TECHNOLOGY COMPANY AOL has announced that it will create 40 new software engineering jobs in Dublin over the next year.

The new roles are for junior and senior positions within AOL Ireland and candidates will need industry experience  work as well experience working with programming languages such as Java, Erlang and C++.

AOL, which stands for America Online, has been based in Dublin for 16 years and currently employs 170 people.

“This investment by AOL involves significant levels of innovation and will lead to the Dublin operation becoming a Centre of Excellence for a strategic growth segment for AOL,” IDA Ireland chief executive Barry O’Leary claimed today.

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    Jun 24th 2013, 12:34 PM

    AOL still exists?

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    Jun 24th 2013, 1:47 PM

    Yeah they still exist. The only tech company whose stock price has tripled in the past year.

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    Jun 24th 2013, 2:05 PM

    woah 1998 called to offer me a job! hurrah!

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    Jun 24th 2013, 12:14 PM

    Great news for Dublin and Ireland now maybe Matt who is on the dole in London can come home to his council pad and hgelp his mum.

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    Jun 24th 2013, 1:26 PM

    A face only a mother could love. Bless!!

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    Jun 24th 2013, 1:23 PM

    AO who?

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    Jun 24th 2013, 7:51 PM

    AO,AO AO

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    Jun 25th 2013, 12:32 PM

    Pity AOK sold off the Waterford operation to talk talk which eventually cost that city 570 jobs!

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