Pat Divilly is a business phenomenon. With a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition, he was waiting tables in Galway just two years ago when he started doing bootcamps on Silver Strand in Bearna. Through word of mouth and social media he’s grown his operation to over 800 subscribers generating €60,000 per month – and he doesn’t […]
A Deloitte report released today analyses Facebook’s impact on the global economy. Some headline takeaways: Facebook enabled $227bn of economic impact Enabled 4.5m jobs globally in 2014. The full report, which was commissioned by Facebook, goes into more detail about how Facebook’s impact was felt in various regions of the world, but the graphic below […]
The latest Ipsos MRBI social media survey results were released earlier today. Facebook continues to reign with 60% of Irish people having an account. 72% of them use Facebook every single day, while only 37% of Twitter users are active on a daily basis. Dating app Tinder is apparently being used by 5% of Irish […]
UTV Ireland will launch on January 1st 2015 and will be carried on SAORVIEW, Sky, eView and UPC. In common with most companies in 2014 UTV Ireland is also present on social media, including Twitter. Unfortunately they may have made a wee faux pas earlier today: https://twitter.com/UTVIreland/status/539796410217291777 While the tweet may not have been retweeted […]
On the biggest day for online purchases in the calendar, new research from the Irish International Business Network (IIBN), reveals that almost a third (29.6%) of Irish businesses now believe e-commerce could help them grow their business, up from 16.2% last year. The IIBN Inter-trade and export report, which looks at the attitudes of Irish businesses […]
Eoin Kennedy joins us on today’s podcast. Click on the player above to listen to the show, or download it here: 9:59; 6MB; MP3. Eoin is the organiser of CONGregation, the one-day ‘un-conference’ on social media held in the quiet and lovely village of Cong, County Mayo, now in its second year. Technology.ie went along to the inaugural CONGregation […]
Popular photo sharing service Twitpic was meant to be shutting down definitively today and taking with it all its content. The shutdown came as a result of a dispute between Twitpic and Twitter over trademarks and API access. However earlier this evening Twitpic announced via their blog that they’d reached an agreement with Twitter. While […]
The Realex Fire Web Awards was held last night at the Ballsbridge Hotel in Dublin. Prizes were awarded in 32 categories with the overall Best Website in Ireland title going to Firefly Friends, which also took the honours in the “Most Beautiful”, “Most Responsive” and “eCommerce Trading International” categories. Organised by Damien Mulley, the event was presented by […]
Penneys is the top brand among Irish Facebook users with 442,740 fans in Ireland according to the latest report from Social Bakers which tracks social media performance of brands and breaks it down by country, sector and other factors. Interestingly, the Penneys Ireland page has an additional 159,000 fans in countries other than Ireland, accounting for about […]
There’s a new social network in town, one which promises not to advertise to you or to sell your data. It’s called Ello, and it’s still very much “under construction“. So, do we need another social network? Well apparently 40,000 people are signing up per hour: and it’s still invitation-only. Much of Ello’s initial growth has […]
