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 Times reports that co-founder and co-CEO Jay Bergman is leaving the company, leaving the other CEO, Tom Barr in charge. […]
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 dressed as multiple Johnny Depp characters! This year, New York Comic Con sold a record 151,000 tickets, beating San Diego […]
#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 it was to investigate Apple’s tax affairs in Ireland on the grounds that it could be viewed as ‘state […]
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 based on the fact that it’s open source. Volunteer developers from all over the world contribute to its development. […]
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 Kan. And if you find the idea of 500 speakers hard to get your head around, they’ve helpfully broken […]
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 channels grouped by theme. It sounds like a backwards step in some respects. Podcasting, streaming and media on demand has freed […]
Justin Mares Confirmed for the Final Growth Hackers Dublin [Audio]
Justin Mares will headline the sixth and final Growth Hackers Dublin event on November 3 at the Abbey Theatre. He’s the co-author of Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers, which he co-wrote with Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of search engine DuckDuckGo. Justin is the former Director of Revenue at Exceptional, a software company that Rackspace acquired for 8 figures in 2013. […]
Fujitsu Brings Omni-Channel POS Retailing to Ireland
Fujitsu has announced the global availability of its new omni-channel Point of Service (PoS) application that allows retailers to significantly increase revenue while reducing IT costs. FUJITSU Retail Solution Market Place achieves this by supporting enterprise-wide transaction and order fulfilment to deliver a consistent and seamless buying experience to their customers via traditional PoS, online […]
Penneys is Ireland’s Top Brand on Facebook, but 26% of its Fans are Abroad
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 […]
Two Irish Guys Explain Clickbait – You Won’t Believe What Happens Next
Irish comedy duo Peter Ganley and Chris Greene have had viral success with their YouTube videos such as 2 Irish guys watch Miley Cyrus. So Channel 4 On Demand commisioned a series from them. Episode 2 of Craic Addicts is all about clickbait: those teasing, misleading, ‘curiousity gap’ headlines that make you want to click – even though you […]