WASup Kerry! Wild Atlantic Startups is Coming to Tralee
Dairymaster CEO Edmond Harty, Conall Ó Móráin of the Sunday Business Show, Paul Hayes of Beach-Hut PR and investor Ian Lucey will be among the speakers at Wild Atlantic Startups: WASup Kerry, being held at IT Tralee on Friday October 17. We’ve featured WASup before on Technology.ie: you can hear a podcast we did with organiser […]
Pranker Pretends to Be Humans of New York [Video]
Humans of New York is a famous photoblog, whose author takes pictures of people in public places and publishes them along with a snippet of conversation he had with each subject. This video shows what happened when an actor pretending to be the HONY photographer interacted with people on the street. It’s funny, especially when he tells people […]
Dublin’s Pop-Up Radio Station for Mental Health [Video]
Today is World Mental Health Day, and a Dublin hospital has been taking its message to the airways this week to promote positive mental health. Ireland’s first all-digital pop-up radio station, Upbeat On-Air, has been broadcasting since Monday from St Patrick’s University Hospital. On-air each day from 7am to 10pm, the programmes are presented by volunteers: […]
Seirbhís Nua Tuairisc.ie le Seoladh Tráthnóna
Tráthnóna inniu ag a 6 a chlog, seolfar Tuairisc.ie: an tseirbhís nuachta idirlín tré mheán na Gaeilge. Tá an tseirbhís maoinithe faoi chonradh le Foras na Gaeilge. Is é Seán Tadhg Ó Gairbhí, a bhí in a eagarthóir ar Foinse, tráth, an t-eagarthóir ar an suíomh nua. An mhí seo chaite, sheol RTÉ seirbhís nua idirlín […]
CurrencyFair’s Brian Monaghan on Hacking Growth [Video]
Brian Monaghan is Head of Online at CurrencyFair, having joined the company from Paddy Power last year. He was one of the speakers at the last Growth Hackers event in Dublin, and afterwards he spoke to Technology.ie. CurrencyFair is an online currency exchange marketplace and money transfer company, currently transferring €100m a month. Typical savings, they […]
Government’s New Plan to Create 93,000 jobs from Start-Ups
A new plan aimed at creating an extra 93,000 jobs from start-up companies in the next five years was today launched by Minister for Jobs Richard Bruton TD together with Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash TD and Minister of State for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English TD. Central Bank research […]
Boxing Kangaroos Brawl in the Street [Video]
Male kangaroos often ‘box’, fighting for dominance and mating privileges. But these two have taken their disagreement into the street in this Australian video which is racking up thousands of views online. Interesting fact: kangaroos eat virtually the same diet as cows, yet they produce virtually no methane. Agriculture accounts for about 18% of the global […]
Electricity Exchange Founder is Limerick’s Best Young Entrepreneur
A University of Limerick engineering graduate has won €20,000 after being named Limerick’s Best Young Entrepreneur at a function hosted in the Castletroy Park Hotel. Founded by Dr. Paddy Finn, Electricity Exchange provides systems and expertise for Demand Side Units, used by large electricity users to manage their own generation of some of their own power. […]
Microsoft Ireland is Hiring 100 New Graduates and Interns
Microsoft Ireland today announced that it is seeking to recruit 100 top graduates for a broad range of graduate and internship positions within Microsoft’s operations in Ireland. Roles will include programme manager positions, sales opportunities, HR, legal functions as well as finance and marketing positions. On the technical side there will be opportunities for candidates […]
Authenticity is the Key to Social Media says Paul Buckley of Aer Lingus [Video]
Paul Buckley, Head of Social Media at Aer Lingus was at the Disruptors conference recently in Dublin. Like all brands, Paul says, they’ve found it can be a challenge to reach their audience through Facebook’s Edgerank filtering. “What we’ve been finding is that it’s the authentic content that is making a difference for us” That authenticity has to permeate […]