AdRoll hires 100th Employee Ahead of Schedule and Celebrates First Birthday in Ireland
AdRoll, the world’s most widely adopted retargeting platform, announced it has hired its 100th employee in Ireland ahead of schedule and is celebrating its first year in Dublin. AdRoll established its EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) headquarters in Dublin last October with plans to create 100 jobs by the end of 2014, and has […]
Web Summit Tweets and Treats
Web Summit has published details of Twitter traffic over the three days of the event: 120,000 tweets published (from over 40,000 unique Twitter accounts) Tweets per minute peaked between 11am and 2pm on Tuesday (coinciding with Eva Longoria’s Main Stage and Food Stage appearances). Longoria was the most-mentioned speaker at the Summit to date – […]
Scredible Uses AI to Help Users Build Socially Credible Brands Quickly
A new app launched today at Web Summit promises to apply Artificial Intelligence to the problem of building a successful social media presence for brands. The possibilities of social media to engage with key audiences are endless. But so, frustratingly, is the time it takes to build and execute a successful online social presence. Researching the hot […]
‘Internet of Things’ Emerges as a Dominant Theme at Web Summit 2014 [Video]
Connectivity between devices and people in their homes, work and cars has emerged as the big theme to dominate the discussions, deals, and bars around Web Summit 2014. Paul Daugherty, CTO of Accenture, pointed out that there will be 50 billion digital devices by 2020 and believed that ‘the internet of things will dwarf the […]
Ding Rings Family Phones Around the World [Video]
Ding is a service which allows anyone in the world to buy phone credit and apply it instantly to the phone of a person in the developing world. It’s a simple but wonderful idea one, conceived and executed by founder and CEO Mark Roden, and it won him the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award just last month. [youtube]http://youtu.be/4Av6mu9OnTE[/youtube] […]
Centre Stage Highlights to Watch for at Web Summit Day 3
It’s third and final day of Web Summit at the RDS. There’s a drone demo starting shortly on centre stage. Liam Casey and Tim O’Reilly will talk about The Future of Wearables at 10:35am. (Check out our conversation with Liam here). Peter Thiel is on stage at 4:35pm , and Bono at 5. If you can’t be here, you […]
PITCH Finalists Announced – Finals On #WebSummit Centre Stage From 2pm
Pitch, which is the largest start-up competition in Europe, is being held in Dublin as part of Web Summit. The competition is sponsored by Coca-Cola. With over 200 entries from over 36 countries the last two days have seen a lot of activity and heated competition between the start-ups who made the original list. So […]
“Appointment viewing is dead” says House of Cards Producer Brunetti
Dana Brunetti, the producer of House of Cards and The Social Network, spoke on Day 2 of Web Summit, in an interview with Matt Garahan of the Financial Times. The Netflix-produced House of Cards, he said, truly disrupted the traditional television space. “Conventional companies only wanted to commit to a pilot for House of Cards,” said […]
RTÉ’s GAAGO Selects Stripe as Payments Partner
GAAGO, RTÉ and the GAA’s online streaming service for Gaelic Games outside of Ireland, announced today at Web Summit that payments disruptor Stripe has been selected as the long-term payments partner of GAAGO. Since the service was launched in May this year, Gaelic Games fans in over 150 countries have been enjoying the new reality of […]
“It’s Always About the People”, says PCH’s Liam Casey [Video]
PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey is having a busy week in Dublin. He’s attending Web Summit, of course – he says that Silicon Valley was full of talk about that event last week. But before the Summit, PCH was involved with running the three-day Design and Hardware Hackathon at DCU Innovation Campus over the weekend. That’s where he spoke to Technology.ie. […]