Popular food delivery service Just Eat will invest in a new 25,000 sq ft flagship office on Shelbourne Road in Dublin, creating space for a significant workforce expansion. The company has announced 160 new jobs as part of its Irish investment, most of which will be based at its new office. Just Eat added that this will still leave room for further growth. “A continued increase in demand for our services has justified this investment and we are very excited about what the future holds for us here,” said Amanda Roche-Kelly, MD of Just Eat Ireland. “With the welcome reopening of the hospitality ..read more

This is why she was driven to create M-Farm. In late 2010, she and her co-founders started out with a simple, novel idea: to bridge the information gap between farmers and buyers. They didn’t just want to get the two talking, but also to give the farmers “accurate, reliable and actionable” information. Words by Elaine Burke Inspirefest is Silicon Republic’s international event connecting sci-tech professionals passionate about the future of STEM. Book now to get your Early Bird tickets. The post Transforming farming in Kenya with mobile technology appeared first on Silicon Republic ..read more

Electronic payments giant PayPal has reported Q3 revenues of $3.6bn, up 14pc based on massive growth in online and mobile payments volumes. The company said that during the quarter, it completed its sale of $6.9bn worth of credit receivables to Synchrony – this negatively affected growth by around 7pc. Despite this, it added 9.1m active accounts and ended the quarter with 254m active accounts, up 15pc on last year. PayPal said payment transactions were up 27pc to 2.5bn and that it managed $143bn in total payment volume. P2P performance Crucially, person-to-person (P2P) volume grew 50pc to more ..read more

Swedish mobile payments platform iZettle has been acquired by PayPal in a deal worth $2.2bn. The takeover comes just weeks after iZettle, creator of an ingenious card-reading device for smartphones, revealed its intention to list on the Stockholm stock exchange. ‘Small businesses are the engine of the global economy’ – DAN SCHULMAN The acquisition, which is the largest in PayPal’s history, will potentially catapult the company into hundreds of thousands of bricks-and-mortar retailers around the world. Once complete, PayPal will have an in-store presence in 11 markets in Europe and Latin Amer ..read more

Lynsey Thornton is vice-president of user experience (UX) and core product at Shopify. Shopify is an e-commerce technology company with a $19bn market cap. Headquartered in Ottawa, it develops software for online stores and retail point-of-sale systems. ‘It is already true today that more consumers purchase from Shopify stores on mobile phones than they do from desktops’ – LYNSEY THORNTON It was originally founded after its owners wrote software for their online snowboard store. The platform today powers more than 600,000 merchants, ranging from small businesses in Ireland to Fortune 500 co ..read more