Sendmybag, the door-to-door baggage service based in Bangor, County Down, is creating 12 new jobs. The firm allows people to ship baggage at cheaper rates than those charged by airlines.

ALMOST 50 new jobs were announced yesterday as two firms unveiled expansion plans. Belfast-based software company Etain said it planned to almost double in size by taking on 34 new workers while luggage delivery service SendmyBag announced 12 new positions at its Bangor office.

Amazon's Cloud Drive was unveiled two years ago for the primary purpose of letting customers store music files purchased from Amazon. Although you could upload other files to Cloud Drive, it wasn't a replacement for cloud storage services like Dropbox because it didn't automatically sync files from one computer to another. From 1 April, that limitation is gone.

Profits at Microsoft’s Irish subsidiary rose in 2012, as revenues climbed to €13.7 billion. In accounts filed with the Companies Office, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (MIOL) revealed that pretax profit almost doubled to more than €1 billion in the year ending June 30th, 2012.