The Irish Internet Association (IIA) is asking Irish businesses to participate in research designed to help the IIA advise Irish SMEs adopt best fit e-commerce solutions. The research powered by Qualtrics is now live. It builds on previous research carried out in 2015 by IEDR to highlight scale of the ecommerce gap in Ireland. This highlighted […]
Archive | February, 2016
Saoirse Ronan Teaching Americans How To Make Tea
Saoirse Ronan seems to be proving very popular with the US media. She’s been making appearances on a wide variety of high profile shows over the last few months. Her most recent piece, however, involves her trying to teach Americans how to make a cup of tea: Personally I prefer coffee, but I’d be happy […]
DeLorean Is Coming Back (Sort Of)
Remember the DeLorean? If you’re over a certain age you may recall when the DeLorean was being made in Northern Ireland. If not you’ve probably seen them in the Back to the Future movies. Either way DeLorean cars have a certain mystique about them and while there are still some “out there” that are roadworthy […]
Facebook at 12 [Infographic]
Facebook is 12 years old today and it’s certainly made an impact. Tom Hopkins from One Productions, a video production company based in Dublin, has put together this infographic to mark the occasion. Video marketing and social media go hand in hand, and he says the following points are worth noting: 1.5 billion people use the main core Facebook service, […]
GEN Ireland Announces Pipeline Global Innovators Summit
Global Entrepreneurship Network Ireland has announced it will bring 50 U.S., high-growth entrepreneurial leaders to Dublin for the Pipeline Global Innovators Summit from September 18-24. Pipeline is an organisation of successful entrepreneurs in the Midwestern region of the United States. Each year approximately ten new entrepreneurs are invited to join Pipeline as Fellows and participate in […]
Podcast: Compost, Lost Lobsters and Silly Traffic [Audio]
Blacknight CEO Michele Neylon and I got together in his office on Friday for our first podcast chat of 2016 – and it’s been a busy year so far. Michele brings us up to date on his recent trips to Las Vegas and Turkey and talked about a recent spate of phishing attacks which are specifically targeting […]