EU Business News Announces the Winners of the 2023 Irish Enterprise Awards

We have all been through so much thanks to the COVID pandemic over the course of the last year and a half. The amount of hard work, ingenuity and sacrifice it has taken to simply make it through to this point is incalculable and we all deserve a break. For anyone thinking about launching a new business during the pandemic, it has been a white-knuckle ride while waiting to see what state the marketplace would be in if and when things got better.

vScaler has incorporated NVIDIA’s new RAPIDS open source software into its cloud platform for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments. Deployable via its own Docker container in the vScaler Cloud management portal, the RAPIDS suite of software libraries gives users the freedom to execute end-to-end data science and analytics pipelines entirely on GPUs.

From an environmental standpoint, the hunger to focus on sustainability is hardly surprising given the positive impact felt during the lockdown period – some UK cities witnessed drops in nitrogen dioxide pollution by as much as 60 per cent. Perhaps as a direct result of such transformation the UK Government has promised a ‘green recovery’ from the COVID-19 pandemic and businesses will no doubt have a key role to play in this.

European nations are wasting nearly 7 billion euros a year on subsidies for the burning of wood for power or heat, a notoriously dirty source of energy that the European Union has allowed to be counted as clean energy.

Ecommerce has changed the way people shop across the world. No longer do we have to leave the house to buy new products, and all it takes is a few clicks to buy whatever we want.

Imagen, the leading SaaS video management platform business, has been selected by PROGRESS, one of the oldest and largest film distributors in Germany, to manage and distribute its vast content library of over 17,000 films to global media companies.

Brexit - a word that we are sure most, if not all of those reading this, are familiar with. While many people have switched off and tuned out the word entirely, there are companies across the country who are still needing to factor this element into their business decisions. None more so than when wanting to ship construction goods and products to mainland Europe.

Interest in setting up an online business in the UK is up by 555% compared to last year, as the country continues to navigate through this financial crisis.

The UK Faces its Highest Levels of Employee Absenteeism Since 2004, Causing Concern for Businesses and the Economy, Employment lawyers, Winckworth Sherwood, explore some strategies employers can use to mitigate these risks and cultivate a healthier, more productive workforce.

The effects of Brexit and the global pandemic continue to have a ripple effect on UK-based businesses that are trading internationally. As well as managing the day-to-day challenges that accompany such activity, they need to put in place a new strategy for a more volatile trading environment.