Why can’t Ireland be more like Silicon Valley, is something we often hear. Well it turns out we’re the closest thing in Europe when it comes to VC investment, according to research published by the Wall Street Journal, which reveals that “high entrepreneurial activity” is most evident in the northwest of the continent, with Ireland […]
Via Budget Batteries, here’s a useful infographic on how to get the most out of your batteries. How To Maximize Battery Life – By the team at Budget Batteries
A new research centre, with the potential to position Ireland at the forefront of the Marine Renewable Energy Industry has been officially launched by the Minister for Research and Innovation Seán Sherlock, T.D. MaREI, Marine Renewable Energy Ireland, is based at University College Cork (UCC) and will receive funding of €19million from the Department of Jobs, Enterprise […]
TEDxCorkWomen was launched last night at Electric on South Mall in Cork. Technology.ie was there, and spoke to Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, editor of Cork Independent, who will MC the event on December 6. We were joined by Joan Walsh of Partnership Europe, one of the sponsors of TEDxCorkWomen. [youtube]http://youtu.be/BRwFG9zNttw[/youtube] Tickets for TEDxCorkWomen are limited to just […]
The first phase of Ryanair’s new web strategy went live on Friday, and this morning they held a webinar briefing for media. The new design is certainly less garish than the old one, and although you can still find plenty of examples of primary colour overdose, they’ve emphasised that this is a phased development, with the […]
Michael Jackson is a partner with Mangrove Capital Partners. They’re a venture capital firm based in Luxembourg with a European vision, who want to invest in businesses with “worldwide potential or people with great ambition”. He thinks the Irish startup scene is very interesting right now, which is why he took the Startup Express to […]
Google’s image recognition “deep learning” systems have evolved to the point where the engineers working on them no longer understand how they are “thinking”. At the Machine Learning Conference in San Francisco last week, Google Engineer Quoc V Le revealed that the company’s image recognition cluster has learned how to identify items which the programmers don’t […]
Here’s another video from Startup Express. Patrick Norris is originally from Dublin, but is based in London where he works for Notion Capital, “an entrepreneur-backed venture capital firm focused on Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service“. I spoke to him shortly before boarding the train to Web Summit. Loading the player … Related articles Trustev Closes $3 […]
We talk a lot about freedom of speech and net neutrality on technology websites such as this. Information should be free; search engines should not censor; and people should be allowed to make their own judgements about the kind of content they wish to access. There are sound reasons for this approach: for human rights, […]
Lorna Dollery won Best Blog Post at Blog Awards Ireland, for her piece on the reality of life for an Irish graduate. A media graduate, she thinks that blogging is essential for students and young professionals who are trying to get established in their field. Loading the player … Lorna has recently emigrated to the […]
