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ResMed Inc has announced the launch of the first product in Japan using technology developed by its BiancaMed division headquartered at University College Dublin (UCD). The product, launched by BiancaMed partner Omron Healthcare, is a new wireless sleep monitoring device. The Omron Sleep Design HSL-101 uses BiancaMed technology to offer wireless, non-contact sleep monitoring, which in turn connects to healthcare support services in Japan. The device is part of a new ‘All for Healthcare’ strategy by Omron. To use the Omron Sleep Design HSL-101, a patient places the device beside the bed. With the non-contact sensing technology it measures sleep throughout the night and can report key sleep quality metrics,…

Sensorpro Chris Byrne Limerick-based software company Sensorpro has signed a global partnership agreement with Danish headquartered firm Sitecore, which has significant operations in the US. The reciprocal arrangement will involve Sensorpro’s messaging and feedback platform being offered to Sitecore customers, and Sitecore’s content management system – which allows for the intelligent delivery of highly personalized content for every website visit – being offered to Sensorpro’s customer base. Founded 12 years ago by Christopher Byrne, Sensorpro has over 10,000 customers globally and employs 11 people in Limerick. Irish users of the Sensorpro platform include An Post, Arnotts and Motortax.ie, and it counts global brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Kraft and…

Ivanka Trump has taken on an official job as assistant to the President of the United States, for her father, Donald Trump. Even though she has publicly stated she won’t take a salary, ethics experts have said she would have to be extremely careful in trade negotiations with countries that export clothing for her label. Just has her husband Jared has a seemingly endless list of priorities and responsibilities, Ivanka’s role is equally as “unknown.” She has been called “assistant to the President” and has shown up for meetings with foreign leaders with no prior experience or official title to be present at such meetings. Ethics experts are concerned because…

Dublin headquartered mobile marketing business Brandtone has signed a new agreement with Unilever that will mean its consumer engagement platform is to be deployed in Thailand, Vietnam and The Philippines reaching millions of customers. Building on an existing global partnership between the two parties, the two parties first began working together in the South East Asian region last year. Since then, Brandtone’s work with Unilever has seen its promotional campaigns for Sunlight and Magnum in Indonesia become among its most successful mobile engagements to date, according to the Irish firm. Donald Fitzmaurice, CEO, Brandtone, said: “When we announced our expansion into Indonesia almost a year ago, even we could not…

Chief executive and co-founder of Irish tech start-up Trustev Pat Phelan describes the past year or so since he moved to the New York to oversee the company’s US expansion as a “whirlwind” and it’s hardly surprising. Trustev is a software platform with new technology that can analyse accurately in real time which buyers are fraudulent. The impact for companies that deploy it is dramatically reduced fraud and increased sales. Phelan started the company in Cork in 2012 where it currently employs 20 people. Since launching Trustev has set up an office in New York, grown to multi-million dollar annual revenues and secured large customers such as global information solutions…

IEA and American Airlines Partner to Enhance Business Opportunities with the US The Irish Exporters Association (IEA) and American Airlines are to partner on a series of business briefings aimed at providing chief executives, managing directors and business leaders with a platform to network and share best practice when doing business with the US. These events aim to create a platform for exporting companies to come together, collaborate, and identify solutions to challenges encountered in international trade. The briefings will be held in key cities including Dublin, Cork, and Galway, offering participants across the country valuable opportunities throughout the year. Leveraging Favorable Trading Conditions The IEA said the aim of…

Mallow-based EPS today announced plans for a new €3m design and manufacturing centre of excellence that will create 50 new high-skilled jobs. EPS is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through Enterprise Ireland. Founded in December 1968 and with 340 employees throughout Ireland, UK and Middle East, EPS provides water and wastewater treatment solutions. The new facility is subject to a planning application with Cork County Council and if that’s successful, the company intends to begin construction in the summer, with an expected completion time of 12 months. The construction process will create 35 construction jobs. “The proposed expansion is the next necessary step in the development of…

Sláinte Healthcare said today that it has won a contract with Bendigo Health, a 653-bed teaching hospital in Regional Victoria that conducts more than 300,000 treatments a year. The contract will see Sláinte Healthcare implementing its Vitro software as the digital medical record within the new US$630m hospital development and will pave the way for a paperless hospital in Bendigo in less than 12 months. It’s the company’s fourth contract win in Australia and follows the establishment of paperless hospitals at Calvary Health Care and the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Centre in New South Wales. To date, Sláinte Healthcare has partnered with and implemented its software in more than 53 hospitals…

The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) has signed a memorandum of understanding with Indian multinational Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with the aim of creating a large worldwide digital community of physicians. IT services brand TCS will now work with RCPI as its first Irish education partner to rapidly develop an online hub of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). TCS was introduced to the heads of Ireland’s third level institutions by former Dragons’ Den investor and entrepreneur Peter Casey last November, and since then the company has been progressing the project swiftly on the ground. The Irish team were joined last week by the global head of Ion TCS…

Co Louth engineering solutions provider to the offshore oil and gas industry Suretank has acquired a majority stake in US manufacturer AmGulf Fabrication for an undisclosed amount. The Louisiana-based company will be rebranded as Suretank USA with immediate effect. Having acquired a minority shareholding in 2013, Suretank developed “a strong working relationship” with AmGulf offering its full range of DNV 2.7-1 certified offshore tanks and cargo carrying units (CCU’s) from the company’s state of the art facility in Houma, Louisiana. “In pursuing our long-term strategy to build local in markets worldwide we are continuously looking for companies that help us to achieve this goal,” said John Fitzgerald, Suretank CEO. “The…