Archive | January, 2013

Realex Payments Q4 2012 figures graphic

Realex Payments Visualise Christmas Online Sales

Realex Payments have released another graphic. This time round it’s a visualisation of Q4 2012, which of course includes the Christmas ecommerce activity. It’s pretty interesting to see what the busiest times of the day are as well as the breakdown of the types of cards used along with a wealth of other information:

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Mega Launch Event – Video

Yesterday Kim Dotcom launched Mega. The new service was launched exactly one year after MegaUpload was shutdown by the US government The new service is being run out of New Zealand and will be competing against the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. In the first 24 hours the new service reported hundreds of thousands […]

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High Street Retailers Feeling the Pinch

It’s been a pretty bad week for high street retailers. Earlier this evening it was announced that  HMV Ireland has been put into receivership only a couple of days after the company was put into administration. Also today Blockbuster in the UK announced that they have gone into administration. The company has over 500 stores […]

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Irish Horse Meat Memes

Horse meat or, more specifically, horse DNA, made its way into some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets. You can read about the story over on The Guardian (we’re avoiding Irish newspapers at the moment!) So of course the Irish internet community had to find the funny side. Here are a couple of the […]

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Instagram Reminds Users of Terms of Service Change

Remember the Instagram debacle? While the company may have listened to users’ outrage (and there was a lot of that.. ) they’ve still made changes to their terms of service, although the changes are much less drastic than the originally planned ones. In an email sent to users of the service today the company underlines […]

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