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.

Prime Minister David Cameron has postponed any decision on corporation tax in Northern Ireland until after the vote on Scottish independence.

Large businesses in Northern Ireland pay some of the highest electricity prices in Europe, new research has revealed. Smaller companies and domestic users fare better in a continental comparison, with charges around the European Union (EU) average, data produced by the region`s Utility Regulator found.