200 JOBS AT NEW DIGIWEB CENTRE - Internet service provider and broadband firm Digiweb today opens its new technology centre in Blanchardstown, from where it will carry out work on its new mobile broadband national network and Ireland's first 4G networks.
Digiweb is also creating 200 jobs. Its managing director Colm Piercy said the company had a national network in place, and the data centre was the next logical step.
Mr Piercy said the company was looking for IP, Cisco and network engineers and other technical staff the next three years, with 80 new jobs immediately.
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IRAN ROW STIRS UP OIL MARKET - Stephen Flood of financial services company Gold and Silver Investments has said the abduction of 15 British sailors was having a significant effect on the oil market, with prices now up at $62.50 a barrel.
He also said the fall-out from defaults on sub-prime mortgage lending in the US could also spill over into other markets.
Mr Flood said there was a degree of confusion in the markets on the position of the head of the US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke. He said markets could previously interpret Alan Greenspan's comments fairly clearly.
Mr Flood said gold, which is usually seen as a safe haven, was doing well in the current volatility, trading at $659 an ounce, compared with a recent high of $685.
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NEWS IN BRIEF - Intel Corporation, the world's largest semiconductor maker, plans to build its first computer-chip factory in China, investing $2.5 billion in a country that assembles 50% of the world's personal computers.
Mobile services group Zamano has reported pre-tax profits of €2.2m for last year, up 71% on 2005, in its first set of results since its listing on the Dublin market earlier this year.
