Last week we went to the OMiG Digital Summit in Galway, where Blacknight were sponsors, and 500 people gathered at Galway’s Radisson Hotel to hear from experts in online and social media marketing. One of those experts is Natalie Roper, Digital Engagement Manager with The Guardian. I asked her about the Guardian’s recent Keep it in […]
Those wacky physics-bending guys from Steorn are back! It’s free lunches all round, and unlimited energy for everyone! Well, not quite everyone. Not exactly free either. The Irish Times reports that the Dublin company is taking orders for its first product, after 15 years of research and more than €20 million invested. The product: well it’s a big clunky phone […]
From today (January 25), Leap Card users with Near Field Communications (NFC)-enabled Android phones can check their card balance and instantly top-up their card with travel credit or collect pre-purchased tickets, including TaxSaver tickets, onto their Leap Card – all by touching their card against their phones. The Leap Top-Up App uses NFC technology to […]
Irish Water has been targetted in an email phishing scam sent to Irish internet users this morning. The email, in common with most phishing scams, uses elements from the Irish Water corporate branding, but is rather badly worded: If you click on the hyperlink in the email you will end up at what appears to […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has confirmed – in a tweet, naturally – that four of the company’s top executives have resigned their positions. Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: pic.twitter.com/PcpRyTzOlW — jack (@jack) January 25, 2016 All four will be […]
Spotted this morning. Fred & Ginger, Gene Kelly, all the old dancing heroes are here to remind us of the heyday of the Hollywood dance musical. They’ve got the funk! [youtube]https://youtu.be/M1F0lBnsnkE[/youtube] HT: Boing-Boing
Facebook has announced that they have started building a data centre in Ireland. The new data centre will be their second one in Europe and sixth overall, following on from Luleå in Sweden. The location they’ve chosen is Clonee, County Meath. The artist’s impression of the facility gives a good impression of size. It’s pretty big! […]
Irish taxi technology company iCabbi has announced that it is targetting €15M annual recurring revenue (ARR) within two years with expansion in the UK and US. The company has seen exponential growth of 300% in the past year on the back of seed funding rounds totalling €1 million in 2012 and 2013. These were led by Dublin […]
Irish music discovery startup Soundwave has announced its acquisition by the music streaming service Spotify. Launched in 2012 it was jointly named as ‘One to Watch’ in the IIA Net Visionary Awards the following year, together with Trustev, which had its own successful exit just last month. The terms of the deal have not been made public, but The […]
The Government yesterday launched Action Plan for Jobs 2016, the fifth in the annual series of jobs plans, led by Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton, and the final plan of the current Dáil. This years plan marks the first in a new phase of the process after the original target of 100,000 extra jobs by 2016 was hit last […]
