Archive | March, 2016

Ray Tomlinson

Ray Tomlinson, Who Put the @ into Email, Dies

Tributes have been paid to computer programming pioneer Ray Tomlinson, who died at the weekend. Mr Tomlinson, who was 74, is widely credited with inventing email, while he was working on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971. He is said to have said to a colleague, when showing him his invention: “Don’t tell anyone! This isn’t what we’re supposed […]

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Louise Phelan of Paypal

Paypal Announces 100 New Jobs in Dublin

PayPal has announced the creation of 100 new jobs at its Global Operations Centre for Europe, the Middle East and Africa in Ballycoolin, Dublin. The positions will be filled by mid-April and will contribute to bringing the number employed by the company in Ireland to 3,000 by 2018 – including 1,600 in Dublin and 1,400 […]

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