Daily deals website Dealsireland.ie has been acquired by a Cork-based deals site, Foffit.com, for an undisclosed sum. Dealsireland.com says it will remain operational for the next couple of weeks and merchants will honour all acquired coupons.
15.May.2013 16:21
The rise of smartphones is not happening fast enough to stem the decline of feature phones in key markets, with users not upgrading or replacing old devices at a pace the mobile device manufacturers would like to see, new first-quarter figures from Gartner reveal.
14.May.2013 10:45
Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
14.May.2013 09:59
In Ireland, €4bn of the total €35bn spent on retail goes to online retailers, but not necessarily those based in Ireland. This figure is predicted to grow to €11.3bn over the next four years, and, with this in mind, two new initiatives have been established to help Irish retailers maximise their opportunities online.
13.May.2013 14:32
A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.
13.May.2013 10:59
Irish companies have today embarked on a four-day Enterprise Ireland trade mission in order to increase their exports to Poland and the Czech Republic.
13.May.2013 10:08
In our round-up of some of the top tech stories from the weekend, Mega's founder wants 3D gun designs off the site, the International Space Station switches to Linux, and police flood Apple with decryption requests.
13.May.2013 09:53
Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.
13.May.2013 06:00
Eircom has sold its security alarm monitoring operation PhoneWatch to the Norwegian company Sector Alarm Corporation. While Eircom did not the reveal details of the sale, the telecoms provider indicated that PhoneWatch was no longer a core business unit.
10.May.2013 16:09
Cloud software giant Salesforce.com has acquired social bookmarking service Clipboard in a deal valued between US$10m and US$20m.
10.May.2013 12:16
Investment in communications infrastructure, and strong demand for networked IT services helped boost BT Ireland’s revenue up 4pc in 2012/2013 to stg£739.9m.
10.May.2013 10:07
Just over a year after it was announced that Facebook would shell out US$1bn for photo-sharing app Instagram, the social network is apparently gearing up for a second billion-dollar acquisition – this time with its sights set on Israeli driving community start-up Waze Mobile.
09.May.2013 15:28
Pre-market trading saw shares in Barnes & Noble rise 23pc following a report claiming that Microsoft is planning to buy up Nook Media’s digital assets.
09.May.2013 14:14
Hewlett-Packard (HP) shareholders are taking the PC giant to court, accusing the company in a lawsuit of failing to properly examine the financial practices of Autonomy prior to acquiring the software firm.
08.May.2013 14:40
More retail banking customers in Ireland will be able to have virtual face-to-face meetings with banking specialists from any branch, in real-time and via high-definition video, now that Cisco has launched a new technology.
08.May.2013 12:56
Telecoms company Telefónica, owner of O2 Ireland, reported a 20.6pc increase in first-quarter net income of €902m, up from €748m a year ago.
08.May.2013 10:10
#OI2Dublin - Digital economy is actual economy, IIA CEO and award winner Joan Mulvihill says
Number of M&A deals in Ireland down 11.5pc in Q1
#OI2Dublin – Interview with Alexander Osterwalder of Business Model Canvas fame (video)
US senator deems Ireland the ‘Holy Grail of tax avoidance’ following Apple investigation
