Hundreds of high-tech jobs are coming to Ireland

Innovate businesses use the Web Summit to reveal expansion plans, writes Emmet Ryan.

The new jobs are spread across a range of sectors including Software Development, Online Security and Digital media. The companies are: Adroll, Nitro, EtQ, StorageCraft, Zendesk, Clio and Pearl Street Enterprises. Photo: Kim Haughton/IDA.

They came, they gathered, and they announced jobs - a number of international companies used last week's Web Summit to announce the creation of hundreds of new jobs in Ireland.

Adroll, an advertising software provider, is set to create 100 new roles by the end of 2014. The company, based in San Francisco, is integrated with major suppliers like Google and Yahoo.

The Irish operation is currently housed in temporary offices but Adam ...