The inaugural Blacknight SME Awards was held last night at the Radisson Hotel in Cork, and the Grand Prix went to LearnUpon, a learning management system provider, which is growing internationally and exporting its services around the globe. As well as the Grand Prix, LearnUpon also won awards in the ‘Customer Focus’ and ‘B2B Export […]
We’re at the Smart Business Show today, on the second day of a two day event sponsored by Vodafone Ireland. The event got underway yesterday with Dara Murphy, Minister for European Affairs & Data Protection, and Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach and the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke officially opening the show. More […]
The IEDR have launched this year’s “Optimise” with a video featuring Francis Brennan: While many Irish small businesses have websites (though a lot still don’t!) of those that have sites only a small number of them are currently selling online. Applications are open until Friday 15th May 2015 and you can find full details on […]
A second Irish eCommerce Expo will be held on April 21st 2015 at the Crowne Plaza in Dublin Northwood. It’s billed as an opportunity to hear from Irish online retailers who have been through it all and to learn from their experience. The Expo is organised as a series of learning seminars featuring over 15 speakers […]
The final shortlists have been announced for the first ever Blacknight SME Awards, which will be held on April 25 at the Radisson Hotel in Cork. Check out the full list below. Sponsored by Ireland’s leading hosting company Blacknight, and hosted by RTÉ’s Rick O’Shea, the SME Awards are organised by Mulley Communications. Tickets for the event are on sale […]
At Mobile World Congress, Fujitsu recently unveiled a no-nonsense, fully ruggedized industrial business tablet, the FUJITSU Tablet STYLISTIC V535. Designed to roll with the punches and soak up the knocks and scrapes of use in environments that would normally overcome consumer-grade tablets, the STYLISTIC V535 stands up to liquids, dust, bumps, and even to being […]
Nominations have opened for the Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG) Digital Awards which will be held in the Town Hall Theatre in Galway on April 8th. The organisers are looking to find Galway’s best Website, Blog, and Social Media Campaign, and there’s also a People’s Choice Award and an Overall Marketing Leadership Award. Nominations close Friday March 13th at […]
It’s been a little quiet here at Technology.ie the last few days. I’ve been out and about meeting my favourite kind of interesting people: entrepreneurs. I’ve got three new videos up on the Blacknight Blog: quick interviews with people involved in Irish SMEs. You can expect to see more in that vein in the coming weeks as […]
On Wednesday next, February 18, The Sales Institute is running a breakfast seminar on the ‘Solution Centred Approach to Selling ICT‘, at the O’Callaghan Alexander Hotel in Dublin at 7:30am. In most cases when you sell an ICT product or service to a customer it has a complex impact on multiple aspects of the customer’s organisation. […]
Wayra, Telefónica’s startup accelerator, has announced that it will close its academy in Dublin this June, once the current cohort of nine startups has completed the programme. The decision was confirmed by the Managing Director of Wayra Ireland, Karl Aherne, in an email to the organisation’s email subscribers this morning. Telefónica has today confirmed that Wayra Ireland will close on May […]
