Job Spectrum

A new report blasting piracy's industrial effects has been released this week, and it includes some shockingly obvious falsehoods.The study, penned by Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Robbery ( BASCAP ), claims that robbery will cost ECU companies over 240 Bn. EU$ by the year 2015 and result in 1.2 million roles being lost in the same period.These job losses are not restricted to content makers, but oddly includes losses from device makers, retail workers, load handling and water transport.

Canada's biggest software company pronounced today it'll pump $1 bill into research, which contains a boost to its Ottawa operations.Open Text writes software usually for the business world. The firm's chief technology officer told CTV Ottawa this A. M. that one in 3 Net users around the globe uses Open Text products each day.

A local company is expanding internationally and that would mean more hi tech roles for the Valley.Last year, officers with Zethus Software accepted a financial award from the Creativity Fund to aid in getting their business off the ground.This year, they revealed a global cooperation with Bruker-AXS, a German-based company that manufactures systematic apparatus.

Searching for a job? You are most likely about to find one. By the year 2018 there'll be 1.4 million job opportunities for so-called "PC experts " - that is everybody from developers to database directors - according to the U.S. Bureau of Work Statistical data .

Fishers-based Exacq Technologies Inc. Will invest $1.1 million to grow its Exit 5 Parkway headquarters, making as much as 49 new roles by 2013.The Indiana Business Development Corp. Articulated the firm's plans early Tues.8 year old Exacq, which develops software systems that arrange video security and surveillance for local and global consumers, plans to start hiring this month. It already employs thirty, up from seventeen in 2007.

Travel agent software expert Comtec is making twenty jobs as it is to grow into international markets, it claimed yesterday.The roles have been made by the Cwmbran firm, which develops and installs complicated, searchable booking vacation software of vacations and similar products, for customers including Thomas Cook and TUI Travel.

Up to thirty new technical roles have been declared by an IT firm in Dublin.Citrix Systems Eire , which gives virtual computing solutions, is expanding its HQ of support for Europe, Middle East and Africa ( EMEA ).

Dublin software company Openet is to invest 3.65m in a research and development program assisted by Establishment Eire. As a consequence, the company will 35 new roles in Dublin over the next year.The company now employs 145 folks in Eire . The 35 new roles include engineers and software engineers.