Former Simply Zesty CEO to head up Digital Marketing Institute
19.06.2013 The former CEO of Simply Zesty Ken Fitzpatrick is to head up the rapidly expanding Digital Marketing Institute as CEO.
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Google pleads the First – wants removal of gagging order on data requests
19.06.2013 Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national US security requests. In the fallout over the Edward Snowden/PRISM affair, the internet giant is fighting to maintain the most vital component in its relationship with users: trust.
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€500k search for world’s top start-up to begin in Dublin
18.06.2013 Tech start-ups will have the chance to pitch in front of some of the world's top tech investors at PITCH, a new €500,000 search for the world’s top start-up at the Dublin Web Summit later this year. Start-ups will get to present at an event attended by major players, including the co-founder of Skype Niklas Zennström, Palintir Technologies’ Joe Lonsdale, Google Ventures’ Kevin Rose, Evernote board member Esther Dyson and renowned blogger Robert Scoble.
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Dylan Collins’ latest venture Box of Awesome goes live in Ireland
18.06.2013 Video games and software entrepreneur Dylan Collins’ next big venture Box of Awesome has begun shipping to Ireland. Box of Awesome, which offers the digital and 21st-century equivalent of the lucky bag, has already grown into a community of 100,000 boys and girls ages 8-14 in the UK.
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Advertising giant WPP takes a stake in microblogging service Muzy
18.06.2013 Advertising giant WPP has taken a stake in Muzy, a Pinterest-like microblogging platform that has about 20m users.
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Could Keek be the next king of the social networks?
18.06.2013 When some people try to espy the next big thing in social media, usually they look for an 18-year-old founder and software genius cloaked in fleece who is too cool for school or college. The last place they may look is in the direction of an entrepreneur with more than 30 years of starting technology and telecoms companies under his belt.
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Coors Light brings out social-to-real-life video game app
18.06.2013 Coors Light has attempted a new market first with a social-to-real-life video game that ties in with 800 pubs across Ireland to give thirsty punters up to 3,000 prizes, including free daily pints.
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‘Tweet’ gets a new social media meaning in the Oxford English Dictionary
17.06.2013 The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – considered to be the definitive guide to the English lexicon – is willing to bend the rules to include the new digital-age meaning of the word ‘tweet’ in its next edition.
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Is Instagram about to unveil a new video app?
17.06.2013 Rumours are emerging that Facebook-owned Instagram may reveal a new video service. Facebook is holding a press event at its San Francisco, California, headquarters on 20 June and so far rumours have emerged about a potential news feed to plug the glaring gap left by Google Reader and now video coming to Instagram.
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Google invests US$7m in bid to eradicate child abuse imagery online
17.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to step up its efforts to eradicate child abuse imagery online and is investing US$5m as well as supporting organisations in the frontline fighting this horrific crime. It is also establishing a US$2m Child Protection Technology fund to develop more effective tools to locate children and prosecute perpetrators.