Archive | March, 2016

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CurrencyFair Raises €8 million, Appoints New CMO

CurrencyFair has today announced a new €8 million funding round, led by Octopus Ventures and supported by, among others, Proxy Ventures, while announcing the appointment of Unibet Group PLC’s former CMO Nils Andén. The latest round brings the total investment to date by CurrencyFair to over €20 million. Before joining CurrencyFair, Nils Andén was CMO of […]

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Newswhip co-founders Andrew Mullaney and Paul Quigley. Picture Conor McCabe Photography

Newswhip Announce Jobs, New HQ

NewsWhip, the Irish tech start-up company launched in 2012, today announces a move to new Dublin headquarters and the 100% expansion of its workforce. From March 22nd, 2016 NewsWhip will be located at NewsWhip House on Merrion Square. The move to the 4 story 200 year old Georgian building facilitates the expansion of the company’s […]

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Apple’s Recycling Robot is called Liam

Yesterday Apple announced a bunch of new products including the the handy little iPhone SE (6S spec in a 5S size), and a developer platform for healthcare apps called Carekit. Better, smaller, cooler – nothing really new or fundamentally groundbreaking – except for Liam. Liam is Apple’s new recycling robot, which carefully and quickly disassembles iPhones and […]

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Thoughts as Twitter Turns Ten

Ten years ago today, the first tweet was sent. It was a time when lots of people were excited about something called ‘Web 2.0’, which was a kind of shorthand for “trying to figure out where the Web is taking us now”. There was a lot of talk about blogs and podcasts. There was something called Technorati, […]

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Google sells ‘Terrifying’ Robotics Company

It’s reported that Google’s parent company Alphabet is selling the pioneering robotics company Boston Dynamics, less than three years after acquiring it in 2013. I’ve had some fun making jokes about Boston Dynamics, and the Terminator-style future suggested by their two and four-legged robots. Now it appears that the PR division at Alphabet actually took the creepy factor […]

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Kevin Spacey Website Looks into your Soul!

It’s become Kevin Spacey’s iconic role, and that’s saying something for the star of The Usual Suspects and American Beauty. In the process House of Cards has broken new ground for Netflix, and for us the audience: a wildly popular TV show that’s not even on TV. And as America is caught up in election fever, life imitates art as the […]

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Irish Woman Honoured by EU Innovator Prize

Dr Sarah Bourke, co-founder of Dublin based space technology company Skytek Limited was announced as one of the winners of the 2016 EU Prize for Women Innovators at a ceremony in Brussels yesterday evening. The EU Prize for Women Innovators is the largest prize of its kind worldwide, and aims to raise public awareness of […]

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Pictured at the launch of HBAN's WxNW syndicate are (l-r) Ultan Faherty, business angel partnership coordinator, HBAN; John Mullen, chair, WxNW; and Ger Barry, angel investor, WxNW

New Business Angel Syndicate to Focus on Western Seaboard

HBAN (Halo Business Angel Network – a joint initiative of InterTradeIreland and Enterprise Ireland) has unveiled its new angel syndicate. The ‘West by North West’ (WxNW) syndicate, together with Enterprise Ireland, will invest €2 million in start-ups located around the western seaboard in 2016. The new syndicate includes 12 business angels based in or connected […]

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Pictured in PayPal's Ballycoolin office at the ‘Young Women in Technology' workshop are female transition year students from Luttrellstown Community College and Castleknock Community College

PayPal Supports Female Students in STEM

PayPal recently welcomed female Transition Year students from Luttrelstown Community College and Castleknock Community College into its Ballycoolin, Dublin office for a workshop as part of the Institute of Technology Blanchardstown’s Young Women in Technology Project. The workshop reflects PayPal’s drive to encourage more women to seek careers in leadership, business and technology. The event gave […]

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