Polaris Venture Partners, a US venture capital company, on Thursday announced the opening of Dogpatch Labs Europe, a technology company accelerator located in Dublin, with a $50m investment from the National Pensions Reserve Fund, provided via the Innovation Fund Ireland.

The prospects of saving up to 600 Dublin jobs at Pocket Kings at the Cherrywood Science and Technology Park in South Dublin, receded on Thursday when the operating licence of the Full Tilt Poker website was withdrawn. Pocket Kings provides technology and marketing consulting services to the online poker industry and its main client/associate is Full Tilt Poker.

US firms invested almost $18bn in Ireland H1 2011 but most of this investment likely came from existing affiliates in the country. Nevertheless, it was an increase  of 49% from 2010 and put Ireland on a similar level with the Netherlands, Canada and the UK.

Principal news stories from the Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Financial Times and New York Times.

September data signalled continued stagnation of China’s manufacturing sector while Japan’s manufacturing production declined for the first time in five months.

Residents on Roosevelt Island can cite a laundry list of businesses they would like to see open in the area.

A Los Angeles couple dress up their latest, and largest, downtown loft.

Three small homes with appealing outdoor space, in East Hampton, N.Y., Spring Island, S.C., and Okeechobee, Fla.

Retired Miami Heat player Alonzo Mourning and his wife, Tracy, have put their Coral Gables, Fla., estate on the market for $14.5 million. Plus, designer Donald J. Pliner has listed his Miami Beach home for $19.9 million, and the La Jolla, Calif., estate of the late scientist Roger Revelle’s family has come back on the market for $12.5 million.

A lodge in “The Park”: A 6,000-square-foot home in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., has seven bedrooms and 8½ bathrooms and is asking $2.7 million.