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Love and Robots wins ESB Spark of Genius Award at Web Summit

Yesterday at the Web Summit, the winners of the ESB Spark of Genius Award were revealed. A shortlist of 30 finalists was announced on September 3rd. All finalists then pitched for a panel of judges, with entrants

By |November 5, 2014|Categories: General|Tags: , , , |2 Comments

Come and talk to Technology.ie and Blacknight at Web Summit

I'm at Web Summit for the next three days reporting for Technology.ie, and the Blacknight team are here too. You can talk to Gianni about domains and hosting, dedicated servers and colocation in our state-of-the-art datacentre. Or you

By |November 4, 2014|Categories: Events|Tags: , , , , , |2 Comments

Silicon Valley CEOs Evacuated by Dublin Fire Brigade as Web Summit gets Underway

The CEOs of Dropbox and Evernote were among a group of about 50 high profile technology figures who were evacuated from the home of Paddy Cosgrave last night after his chimney caught fire. The Web Summit founder told the story as

By |November 4, 2014|Categories: Events|Tags: , , , , , , |4 Comments

Cash Up wins Dublin Design and Hardware Hackathon Weekend

Ireland’s first multidisciplinary Design and Hardware Hackathon has been one by Cash Up, the team which developed and prototyped a connected cash register over the course of the three-day event which finished last night. Following on the success

Engineering Serendipity: Why Web Summit hires Data Scientists to Help You Network

Excitement is building in advance of Web Summit next week. In just four short years it has grown from just 400 attendees at the first event, to 20,000 who will throng the RDS next week. In a post on

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