17.06.2013 In its largest deal for original first-run content to date, Netflix has secured a multi-year arrangement with DreamWorks Animation for over 300 hours of new programming directed at a young audience.
17.06.2013 In the past year digital media companies based in Ireland hired 3,000 people with the majority of the hires by large multinational internet and e-commerce firms, a study by Prosperity Digital Recruitment reveals.
17.06.2013 This Thursday will see the full release of Soundwave, a music-discovery app created and developed in Ireland that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak called “a music product that so perfectly fits my life”.
16.06.2013 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features a handy instructional video from PlayStation, a Photoshop magician at work, a trippy optical illusion, ‘Get Lucky’ through the ages, a parody of Ireland’s racism problem and a scaredy-cat.
14.06.2013 It is almost 50 years since then-US President John F Kennedy visited Ireland and to mark the occasion, Ireland’s State broadcaster RTÉ has chronicled the visit in a major online exhibition consisting of more than 50 film clips, as well as audio and documents from the station’s archives.
13.06.2013 Netflix vice-president of product innovation Todd Yellin revealed this week that Netflix accounts with multiple user profiles are currently undergoing testing and could be made available by late summer.
12.06.2013 The season 3 premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones was the most pirated file on BitTorrent within 24 hours after its original broadcast – that was, until Sunday night’s season finale broke this record once more.
12.06.2013 Now is the time for media firms to invest in digital products or face being left behind when earnings from traditional media lose out to digital sales, a new report from Ernst & Young suggests.
11.06.2013 Daily deals site Groupon has kicked off a recruitment campaign for its newly established Software Development Centre in Dublin and is looking to fill more than 20 new full-time positions. Currently there are 12 people already employed at the operation.
10.06.2013 A job posting online is seeking a fully qualified cat meme generator to work on a freelance basis in London for a fee of stg£200 to stg£300 per week.
