27,600 New Jobs Created in Ireland in 2014
There are 27,600 extra people at work in Ireland compared to one year ago, according to the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD. The Minister has commended all involved in making 2014 a great
Fund Recs wins Google Award for Online Business Promotion
Padraig O’ Scanaill, a young Waterford entrepreneur and finalist in Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur (IBYE) competition, picked up the award for the ‘Best Online Promotion of Business’ and won €1,000 worth of Google Adwords for his
US Internet Industry Group Takes a Stand on Irish Data Protection
i2Coalition, the DC-based Internet Infrastructure Coalition, has signed on to an amicus brief arguing that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York failed to properly analyze the extraterritorial application of the Stored Communications Act,
Is Facebook Ad Revenue built on Fake Likes?
Antonie Geerts pointed me to this video last night which makes an astonishing, but not very surprising, assertion about Facebook advertising. We already know that buying fake likes is counterproductive, because Facebook's algorithm penalises pages and users who have
Orkut To Close In September
Google announced earlier today that it will be closing down Orkut in September. Orkut was Google's first foray into social networks, long before social networks were really called social networks. The site was originally launched back
Facebook Experiments: The Ick Factor
Facebook is facing a storm of criticism after an academic paper revealed that they conducted an experiment in conjunction with researchers at Cornell University and the University of California, San Francisco, into how users moods are affected
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz took his own life in January of last year. Since then there has been a lot written about his short life and untimely death. The new documentary film by Brian Knappenberger "The Internet's Own
