Ryanair are currently on a recruitment drive to fill a number of positions related to their online presence. As the airline is pretty much 100% online it only makes sense that they’d want to invest in staffing the teams that manage their online presence.. So Michael O’ Leary’s face might be following you around LinkedIn […]
This pretty clever video is shot from the perspective of a startup founder and captures key moments in a startup’s evolution – assuming that things go well of course [youtube]http://youtu.be/X-b2Zrr8BEk[/youtube]
This video has been doing the rounds over the last few days and while it is hilarious it also does a very good job of explaining why conference calls and “remote participation” at meetings is far from ideal. Anyone who spends time on conference calls should be able to relate to it. Enjoy 🙂
Today, in front of an audience of entrepreneurs at The Digital Hub, Dell launched a new initiative to support the start-up community in Ireland. The Dell Centre for Entrepreneurs is a global initiative by the company, and today’s announcement follows similar initiatives in the US and UK. The programme will provide access to funding, mentoring […]
Hot on the heels of the announcement by Intercom that it raised €23m in Series B financing, Stripe, the online payments company founded by Patrick and John Collison, have announced a Series C round of $80m dollars which values the business at €1.75bn dollars. Both companies are founded by Irish people and both are growing […]
Today’s podcast (40:09, 24MB, MP3) was recorded by Michele and Conn at Blacknight HQ, as painters put the finishing touch to the recent rennovations, in preparation for the official launch of Blacknight’s brand new datacentre (more on that soon!) Michele reports from Namescon, which he attended last week in Las Vegas. Â We talk about domain […]
Disney films are popular in the four corners of the globe, so they get dubbed into a lot of different languages. And with the animated films the songs are, in many cases, an extension of the spoken dialogue, so they get dubbed too. Here’s “Let It Go” from the Disney hit “Frozen” in 25 languages […]
Realex Payments have announced their Q4 results by way of a nice graphic, as they’ve done in the past. Their growth is continuing with over 40% growth in Q4 2013 compared to Q4 2012. Here’s the lowdown: Nicely done! Related articles What are Ireland’s hottest start-ups: is there a new Google out there? (independent.ie) Congrats […]
There’s a scene in an episode of Black Mirror, where a couple is having sex. Â In that fictional society, most people have an implant, called a ‘grain’, which records their every waking moment, and can replay any experience for the user, privately, ‘in their mind’s eye’. It turns out that, while making love, both partners […]
Here’s some more great research on social media for business by Social Bakers. Â The #SociallyDevoted report is out for Q4, 2013, with Dutch Airline KLM topping the poll for customer service on social media. Â Airlines in general are better at social media with a 76.4% response rate on Facebook compared with 59.4% average across all […]
