Stephen McIntyre, the Managing Director of Twitter EMEA based in Dublin, has announced that he is stepping down to join Frontline VC, a venture capital firm based in Dublin and London, as a partner. He will be replaced at the head of Twitter’s Dublin-based EMEA organisation by Mark Little, the former RTÉ journalist and entrepreneur […]
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Harnessing the Cloud: The First Step is Strategy says Dermot Casey [Video]
From big corporations to aggressive startups, Dermot Casey helps companies to work better. In particular, he helps them to think strategically about how to leverage technology in the service of their business goals. Formerly COO and CTO at Storyful, now he works with Keith Bohanna at Near Future. At the Vodafone Smart Business Show in the RDS, he gave a […]
Stephanie’s Viral Goal Nominated for FIFA Puskás Award [Video]
Remember this gorgeous goal by Irishwoman Stephanie Roche that went viral last year? Now it’s been shortlisted, together with goals by Robin van Persie, Diego Costa and others, for FIFA’s Puskás Award for the best goal of 2014! [youtube]http://youtu.be/c0L0WIK2Ync[/youtube] It’s a wonderful goal, and a wonderful reminder of the everyday heroics that sport can produce, in small competitions as well […]
Video: ‘Net Visionary’ Mark Little explains The Vision Thing
Mark Little was an inspiring winner of the Dot IE Net Visionary Award on Friday night. There’s been a lot positive comment on the video of his speech, and that of IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill. Afterwards he gave an interview to Technology.ie. I reminded him that, when he founded Storyful, nobody knew what a “social media news agency” was. […]
Video: Storyful’s Mark Little Accepts the 2014 Net Visionary Award
On Friday night, the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards was a heartwarming occasion. It’s great to see old friends and meet new ones. And after a night of awards in different categories, there is a special moment when one among us is singled out for that special recognition: the Overall Net Visionary Award. Reading the citation, […]
Promiscuous Mode [Audio]
Conn and Michele recorded a podcast (37:19; 34MB; MP3) in Michele’s office at Blacknight HQ this afternoon. We discuss the Russian Blogging Crackdown and the recent US court ruling that Microsoft must hand over data on a server located in Ireland. Last week, Michele broke the news that ICANN’s 54th public meeting will be held in Dublin next […]
Storyful’s Aine Kerr is an Honest Broker for User Generated Content [Audio]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
NewsCorp Buys Storyful
Storyful, the social news agency founded by former RTE anchor Mark Little, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for €25m. Founded in 2008, Storyful’s team of journalists work to find and verify user generated content of interest to media organisations, and help the owners of the content to monetise it. As the business […]
Web Summit Final Panel with Elon Musk
Here’s the video of the final panel discussion from yesterday’s web summit featuring Elon Musk, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and investor Shervin Pishevar. The discussion is chaired by Mark Little of Storyful. Related articles Elon Musk joins Taoiseach for a fireside chat Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is official name of Elon Musk-inspired startup Tesla’s Elon Musk flames […]