Conn and Michele recorded a podcast (37:19; 34MB; MP3) in Michele’s office at Blacknight HQ this afternoon. We discuss the Russian Blogging Crackdown and the recent US court ruling that Microsoft must hand over data on a server located in Ireland. Last week, Michele broke the news that ICANN’s 54th public meeting will be held in Dublin next […]
Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 259 million members worldwide, today announced its one millionth member in Ireland. The company, which employs over 400 people at its international headquarters in Dublin, also announced today that its Irish members are some of the most engaged in the world for LinkedIn. “One million Irish […]
“Best CIO” is a new award at this year’s Dot IE Net Visionary Awards. Sponsored by Intel, it was judged by a special panel chaired by Dennis Jennings, who explained that the award recognised the importance of data in modern computing, and the role of the CIO in managing data and using it to drive […]
This week’s podcast was recorded on Thursday night last as Michele prepared to depart for ICANN in Toronto. It should have been posted on Friday, but I screwed up! Once again we struggled with hotel WiFi – in fact – we gave up on it and I phoned the hotel room. And that’s where our […]
Paddy Power, the online betting giant based in Dublin, has announced over 600 new jobs for Dublin. With the new jobs the company will have close to 3000 staff. According to reports this morning the jobs will be in a variety of roles including social media, e-commerce, marketing and research. An Taoiseach, Mr Enda Kenny, […]
Irish online payment provider, Realex Payments, has announced significant growth. In a release earlier this afternoon the Dublin based company announced revenues up by 28%, transaction volumes up 44%, client base increase by 74% (!!!) They’re now processing 1.5 billion euro a month on average! During the year Realex Payments signed up an additional 3,550 […]
