Categorised as: ECommerce & News
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Google at #MWC13: Google Play is growing faster than Android News
25.02.2013 Senior Google executives who are guiding Google’s Android strategy said today that consumer spending on apps on Google Play is growing at a rate faster than Android activations.... -
Russian meteor fragments listed for sale on eBay News
22.02.2013 Enterprising citizens are heading to eBay to sell for hundreds of dollars what are purportedly fragments of the meteor that fell over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk last week. -
Disruptive digital economy measures dominate Ireland’s Action Plan for 100,000 new jobs News
22.02.2013 As part of a plan to generate 100,000 new jobs by 2016, Ireland will lead Europe in terms of ICT graduates as a percentage of all third-level graduates by 2018 and 2,000 extra...Categories: Unified Communications, Training, Tax, R&D, Investments, Internet, Green Tech, Green, Financial Services, Financial, Engineering, Energy, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Data Management, Data Centre -
OmniPay collects major European e-payments award for PaaS technology News
21.02.2013 Dublin-based electronic payments processing firm OmniPay has won the 2013 ‘Information Award’ at the Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) gala awards in Berlin.Tags: E-payments -
Digital economy is key to jobs growth, says Ireland’s Taoiseach News
21.02.2013 The digital economy has a major role to play in Ireland’s economic recovery and Ireland is in a position to claim the title of Digital Capital of Europe, Ireland’s Taoiseach... -
Pin this! Pinterest raises US$200m – company now valued at US$2.5bn News
21.02.2013 Social networking site Pinterest is now valued at US$2.5bn after raising some US$200m worth of venture capital in a round led by Valiant Capital Management and involving... -
Economic impact of the ‘Internet of Everything’ will be US$14trn – Cisco’s Chambers News
19.02.2013 The potential economic impact of the ‘Internet of Everything’ economy is US$14trn for global private-sector businesses in the next 10 years, Cisco CEO and chairman John Chambers... -
Failure to invest in fibre broadband could make Europe an economic backwater News
15.02.2013 European nations and their respective incumbents’ inability to embark on ambitious fibre infrastructure plans that will prepare their countries for the 21st century and beyond... -
Facebook to create 100 jobs in Dublin in new investment News
18.02.2013 Social networking giant Facebook is to create 100 new jobs in Dublin, where it already employs 400 people at its international HQ. -
Tech start-up of the week: JarStar News
17.02.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is JarStar.com, a new venture based in Derry that has come up with a novel way for people to save or donate change from a cash transaction by using... -
North-east SMEs urged to rise to e-commerce challenge News
15.02.2013 There are close to 1,400 businesses in the north-eastern Irish county of Monaghan but according to proponents of digital business from the area, the uptake is seriously low. -
Communications industry’s credit union ESCCU deploys e-banking News
15.02.2013 E-Services and Communications Credit Union, the credit union for Ireland’s communications industry for more than 50 years and which has €170m under management, has deployed a... -
More than 1 in 6 Irish SMEs lose domain names before registering companies - survey News
15.02.2013 More than one in six Irish SMEs lose their domain names before registering their companies and 68pc of small business owners in Ireland fail to register their domain names prior... -
The technology business week: Apple is poster child for post-PC revolution, Twitter strikes deal with American Express News
18.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Buyersclub.ie and IIA team up to offer e-commerce scholarships News
14.02.2013 The social store Buyersclube.ie is teaming up with the Irish Internet Association (IIA) to launch a scholarship programme for three people to undertake the IIA diploma in...Tags: E-commerce, Irish Internet Association, -
PCI Council releases guidelines to aid merchants with cloud and e-commerce choices News
13.02.2013 New guidelines on staying secure when using e-commerce and cloud services have been published by an open forum for developing payment card security standards. -
Say it with clicks: consumers prefer to buy their Valentine’s gifts online News
13.02.2013 Given the choice, up to 82pc of Irish consumers would be open to buying their Valentine’s Day gifts online rather than in a physical store, while 18pc would prefer to shop in a...Categories: Online Business, Internet, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Limerick brothers launch e-commerce solution for the retail sector News
13.02.2013 A Limerick duo has created a new e-commerce solution called CueCommerce, with the aim of helping the retail sector capitalise on the growth of online shopping.Categories: Online Business, Mobile, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech -
Online merchants to look to social network identity to eliminate fraud News
12.02.2013 Very soon online merchants will be using shoppers’ Facebook or Twitter identities as a way to boost sales and reduce fraud. -
Twitter’s new e-commerce adventure – ‘tweet to buy’ deal signed with Amex News
12.02.2013 Twitter isn’t just thinking of monetisation through digital marketing, it has its eye on e-commerce payments. The microblogging service has embarked on a new social commerce...