Stephen McIntyre, the Managing Director of Twitter EMEA based in Dublin, has announced that he is stepping down to join Frontline VC, a venture capital firm based in Dublin and London, as a partner. He will be replaced at the head of Twitter’s Dublin-based EMEA organisation by Mark Little, the former RTÉ journalist and entrepreneur […]
Remember this gorgeous goal by Irishwoman Stephanie Roche that went viral last year? Now it’s been shortlisted, together with goals by Robin van Persie, Diego Costa and others, for FIFA’s Puskás Award for the best goal of 2014! [youtube]http://youtu.be/c0L0WIK2Ync[/youtube] It’s a wonderful goal, and a wonderful reminder of the everyday heroics that sport can produce, in small competitions as well […]
TV and radio producer Pat O’Mahony has a reputation as someone who is as comfortable with new media as with old. That’s partly due to a series of Christmas programmes he made for RTE in 2009, 2010 and 2011 called Now That’s What You Called News. Based on Google’s Zeitgeist Report on popular searches, the show […]
Mark Little was an inspiring winner of the Dot IE Net Visionary Award on Friday night. There’s been a lot positive comment on the video of his speech, and that of IIA CEO Joan Mulvihill. Afterwards he gave an interview to Technology.ie. I reminded him that, when he founded Storyful, nobody knew what a “social media news agency” was. […]
On Friday night, the Dot IE Net Visionary Awards was a heartwarming occasion. It’s great to see old friends and meet new ones. And after a night of awards in different categories, there is a special moment when one among us is singled out for that special recognition: the Overall Net Visionary Award. Reading the citation, […]
Aine Kerr, Managing Editor of Storyful, is our guest on today’s podcast (15:59; 9MB; MP3). Storyful calls itself “the world’s first social media news agency”. Founded by ex-RTE anchor Mark Little in 2010, it was acquired by News Corp in 2013 and has offices in Dublin, New York and Hong Kong. “When everyone is a publisher […]
Storyful, the social news agency founded by former RTE anchor Mark Little, has been bought by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp for €25m. Founded in 2008, Storyful’s team of journalists work to find and verify user generated content of interest to media organisations, and help the owners of the content to monetise it. As the business […]
Here’s the video of the final panel discussion from yesterday’s web summit featuring Elon Musk, Taoiseach Enda Kenny and investor Shervin Pishevar. The discussion is chaired by Mark Little of Storyful. Related articles Elon Musk joins Taoiseach for a fireside chat Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is official name of Elon Musk-inspired startup Tesla’s Elon Musk flames […]
