Kainos, the Belfast-based IT firm, has announced a major expansion that will create 403 new jobs.

Internet activists scored a landmark victory on Thursday as the top US telecommunications regulator approved a plan to govern broadband internet like a public utility.

Following on from the success of last year's Web Summit in Dublin, that had over 20,000 attendees, organisers have announced that two major sister events ― EnterConf and MoneyConf ― are set for Belfast.

Ireland may have looked like the underdog, a tiny nation, just four-and-a-half million people-strong, when it was facing economic ruin in the financial crisis of 2008, but you should never underestimate the strength of its entrepreneurial spirit.