Remember payphones? They used to be everywhere, distinctive green and yellow in Ireland, red in Britain. These days you might find one in a retro pub, a nod to the ‘good old days’. Nowadays we don’t just all have phones in our pockets: we’ve got media hubs, portable WiFi hotspots, TVs – and TV stations! So we […]
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Trustev Closes $3 Million Seed Funding Round
Irish startup Trustev has announced the closing of a $3 million seed funding round to finance the further development of its groundbreaking e-commerce security and online fraud protection technology. Participants include US venture capital fund Greycroft Partners, Mangrove Capital Partners, ACT Ventures, Telefonica and Enterprise Ireland. Since launching at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City […]
Spark.me Startup Competition
The guys over at the .me domain registry are running a competition for startups in conjunction with their conference – spark.me. The conference, which is being held in Budva, Montenegro will feature a number of international speakers and include the startup competition. If you’re involved in a startup that has received less than $2.5 million […]
Podcast with Ken Hansen of .NYC
Ken Hansen of Neustar and .NYC joins Michele and Conn for this week’s podcast. With over 20 years of Internet and telecom, sales, marketing and business development experience, Ken led the business development efforts that resulted in Neustar’s entry into the registry business, the award of dot-biz by ICANN and the Department of Commerce selection of Neustar […]
Delorean “Taxi”
I’d love to be able to get into one of these, wouldn’t you? Unfortunately though you won’t be able to grab a DeLorean taxi in New York, or anywhere, just yet. The NYC taxi / DeLorean is just part of a clever marketing campaign from Mike Lubrano to promote Nooka.. Pity 🙁