• SPECIAL EVENTS

  Digital Ireland Forum 2012 highlights

  Ireland's tech leaders discuss the country's opportunity in the next economy

  

• SPECIAL EVENTS

  The Silicon Valley 50

  06.03.2012 The Silicon Valley 50 most influential Irish-American people in the tech world

  

• STRATEGY

  The five minute CIO: Henry Minogue

  18.05.2012 UPC Ireland's IT chief on changing the conversation from cost to value

  

• NEW MEDIA

  RTÉ’s new digital strategy revealed

  21.05.2012 On the way is a new-look RTÉ Player and a RTÉ Shop for buying digital content

  

• CLOUD

  Help for Irish firms moving to the cloud

  21.05.2012 Government rolls out cloud computing standards for Irish organisations

  

Breaking News

• Gift voucher giant Smartbox to create 70 new digital economy jobs 23.05.2012

  One of Europe’s leading players in the production of gift vouchers and rewards Smartbox is to create 70 new jobs by establishing an international strategy, B2B, project management, digital, supply chain and IT centre of excellence and expanding its financial shared services centre in Dublin.

• 36pc of CV padders lose job when found out - survey 23.05.2012

  Recent headlines have brought the issue of CV padding under the spotlight and job applicants should also heed the fact the internet provides employers with means to verify information, a new survey suggests.

• Nearly half of consumers will be ‘social shoppers’ by 2021 – Barclays 23.05.2012

  Sales from social commerce, driven by the influence of social media, are expected to more than double within the next five years, according to research from Barclays.

• 10 social entrepreneurs get €700K from Arthur Guinness Fund 23.05.2012

  Ten social enterprises are set to receive financial and business support to the value of €700,000 from the 2012 Arthur Guinness Fund. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD will be at the Guinness Storehouse to recognise the 10 social ventures this morning.

• Get your electronics organised (infographic) 23.05.2012

  Gadgets to organise gadgets - a new infographic reveals products that can help you get the most out of your living space.

• Eircom to exit examinership on 11 June 22.05.2012

  The High Court has approved a scheme recommended by Eircom’s examiner Michael McAteer that will allow it to exit examinership on 11 June. Under the scheme of arrangement Eircom’s debt is to be reduced by 40pc.

• SpaceX blasts off for International Space Station 22.05.2012

  The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft have successfully blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida to carry out an unmanned test flight to the International Space Station. Today’s lift-off followed an aborted attempt by SpaceX last Saturday due to a faulty check valve on one of its engines.

• 12-year-old game developer brings out his first PC game 22.05.2012

  The 12-year-old Waterford-based programmer Jordan Casey has written a new PC game called Green Boy. Casey, who emerged earlier this year as one of Europe’s youngest iOS developers, is also planning a Mac version of the game Green Boy.

• Google acquires Motorola Mobility, names new CEO 22.05.2012

  Google has closed its deal to purchase mobile device maker Motorola Mobility, Google CEO Larry Page announced on the company’s blog. The US$12.5bn deal is Google’s biggest acquisition to date.

• Is it time for CRM to get social? (interview) 22.05.2012

  With the launch of Facebook integration with LiveOps Social, a CRM tool that aids customer service on social media and other channels, we ask LiveOps senior vice-president and chief marketing officer Ann Ruckstuhl: is social media the ideal customer service tool?

• EMC acquires file management solutions provider Syncplicity 22.05.2012

  Data storage giant EMC has acquired Syncplicity, Inc, a privately-held, next-generation, cloud-based synch and share file management provider for an undisclosed sum.

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