03/11/2010

Dublin Wins 200 Jobs From Betfair

An online sports betting firm has announced it will be creating 100 jobs at a new Dublin office.

Betfair said it is to open a new data-centre and relocate some of its customer operations teams to Ireland early next year. The company has already commenced a recruitment process to fill the posts.

There are over 600 engineers involved in maintaining the firms betting exchanges globally which process over five million transactions a day.

Betfair Chief Executive David Yu said the company was delighted to be relocating some of its business to Dublin.

"Ireland has become a primary destination for world-leading online companies and we are proud to be joining other global technology firms in making a significant investment here," he said.

Minister of State for Science Conor Lenihan welcomed the announcement and said it demonstrated the changing nature of Ireland's knowledge economy.

(BMcC)

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