Wayra Ireland Accelerator Programme to Shut Down
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,
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
Web Summit tickets Go on Sale at 2pm – but only the First 1000 get the Discount
Last week, Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave revealed that over 24,000 people had registered for the 2-for-1 discount price on tickets for Web Summit 2015. Faced with with a potentially huge surge in demand for the
Gene Murphy on Irish Startup Weekends [Audio]
It's Global Entrepreneurship Week, and four Irish cities are taking part in the Global Startup Battle. Galway Startup Weekend was on last weekend, and Dublin, Cork and Limerick are repeating the exercise next weekend. Gene Murphy is
PITCH Finalists Announced – Finals On #WebSummit Centre Stage From 2pm
Pitch, which is the largest start-up competition in Europe, is being held in Dublin as part of Web Summit. The competition is sponsored by Coca-Cola. With over 200 entries from over 36 countries the last two
“It’s Always About the People”, says PCH’s Liam Casey [Video]
PCH founder and CEO Liam Casey is having a busy week in Dublin. He's attending Web Summit, of course - he says that Silicon Valley was full of talk about that event last week. But before the Summit, PCH was involved with
