Hailo Quits ‘Unprofitable’ North America
Hailo, the taxi hailing app has announced that it is pulling out of North America because it says the price war between local ride-sharing startups Uber and Lyft is making it "impossible" to be profitable there. The Financial
Cosplayers of New York Comic Con
Thanks to Mashable for rounding up some of the more spectacular costumes from New York Comic Con at the weekend and putting 52 of them in a video, and hats off to the man who went
#Budget15: Goodbye Double Irish – Hello Knowledge Box
#457199556 / gettyimages.com The controversial 'Double Irish' tax loophole was abolished in yesterday's budget speech by the Minister for Finance Michael Noonan. The move had been widely expected following increasing international pressure, and the announcement by the EU that
Driving Open Source Participation in WordPress Development [Video]
Much of today's internet is built on Wordpress: there's one wordpress site for every 101 people on the planet! It's free and open-source, extendible as a platform for plugins, relatively secure and reliable. A large part of its success is
Three Weeks to Web Summit: 200 More Speakers Announced
With three weeks to go, Web Summit has just added 200 more confirmed speakers to the programme, bringing the total to 500. The latest speakers confirmed include food blogger Adam Richman, Eventbrite co-founder Julia Hartz, and YCombinator partner Justin
Sky Invests in Video Startup Pluto.TV
Sky Television has invested $500,000 into LA-based startup Pluto.TV. Pluto.TV aggregates online video content from the web and programmes it into themed video channels, i.e. it takes on demand video and turns it into video
