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NDRC seeks applicants for LaunchPad accelerator News
20.06.2011 The National Digital Research Centre’s (NDRC) LaunchPad accelerator programme is looking for applications from entrepreneurs with great concepts in the digital space by the...Categories: Web Development, Web Design, Social Media, Research, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Design -
ICANN approves massive expansion of domain names News
20.06.2011 The board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has approved a plan to usher in one of the biggest changes to the internet’s domain name... -
Irish EU's fourth biggest users of social networking - research News
17.06.2011 Sixty-eight per cent of Irish internet users use social networking sites, the fourth highest figure in the EU, research from the European Commission suggests.Tags: EU, European Commission, Ireland, Data protection, Spam, Social Networking, Data Theft, Europe, -
Next big thing: social commerce gets a beauty makeover News
16.06.2011 Fast-emerging social commerce player Owjo has struck a vital deal with major cosmetics wholesaler The Beauty Store in a move that could revolutionise how more than 1,000 small...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Surfing website wins students enterprise competition in Galway News
13.06.2011 Two students from NUI Galway have won an enterprise competition and a €15k investment in their project WestCoastSurfer.com, which they aim to develop into the premier Irish... -
Weekend news roundup News
13.06.2011 A trawl through some of the weekend newspapers’ tech coverage, including the US planning a "shadow" internet that will help citizens in oppressed countries speak freely, how the...Categories: Wireless Communications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Government, eCommerce -
Spin-out company Seevl aims to reinvent music discovery News
10.06.2011 A spin-out company from the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway called Seevl has developed a new online discovery user experience for music lovers. -
BT 'Connected Communities' to support Moyross enterprises News
07.06.2011 Moyross Community Enterprise Centre in Limerick is to be one of the beneficiaries of the BT ‘Connected Communities’ initiative, which aims to help communities across Ireland get... -
Realex in e-commerce deal with UK high street firm News
07.06.2011 One of the UK’s largest high street greeting card and gift companies, Clinton Cards, has selected Irish firm Realex’s payments engine to drive its multi-channel e-commerce...Categories: Software & Web Development, Online Business, Investments, Internet, Financial, eCommerceTags: E-commerce, E-payments, -
Irish start-up to revolutionise in-game payments at E3 News
07.06.2011 A new payments model that allows gamers to purchase in-game upgrades and currency in less than 10 seconds via their mobile bills rather than credit cards is being unveiled today...Categories: Wireless Communications, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Financial, eCommerce, Apps -
AIB rolling out digital card readers with ‘one time’ passwords News
07.06.2011 AIB has signed a deal with global digital security player Gemalto to roll out EMV card readers to online banking customers and enhance a user’s protection when online banking...Categories: Software & Web Development, Security, Internet, Hardware, Funding, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Sage unveils new FX global payments service News
07.06.2011 Sage’s Irish operations have launched a new, free global payment service aimed at making it faster and cheaper for businesses or individuals to make foreign currency transfers... -
Apple unveils iOS 5 – iMessage could kill BBM News
06.06.2011 Apple today told developers at its WWDC that its operating system for iPads, iPhones and iPod touch devices – iOS 5 – will be released directly to developers today but it will...Categories: Software & Web Development, Phones, Operating Systems, Networking & Telecoms, Hardware, eCommerce, Computers, Apps Zone, Apps -
As Groupon files US$750m IPO, questions emerge over deficit News
03.06.2011 Three-year-old social commerce leader Groupon is aiming to raise US$750m in an IPO. However, questions have emerged over how a company everyone believed was turning over US$1bn... -
Ireland’s top e-commerce sites flunk at social media News
01.06.2011 Tesco, Ryanair and UPC are among the companies at the bottom of a survey of social features on e-commerce websites, while Amazon and HMV emerged as Ireland's most sociable sites. -
3V's latest partnership will help it expand to Spain News
02.06.2011 3V has made a partnership agreement with Spanish transaction company Disashop, expanding the pre-paid Visa voucher product across 13,000 points in Spain. -
Sligo brothers’ cloud firm Eventovate raises €700k News
03.06.2011 Eventovate, a cloud services company focused on the hotel sector and set up by two returned emigrants from Sligo that last year made the TechCrunch Euro Top 100 list, has just... -
Dublin’s Digital Skills Academy impresses EU Commissioner News
01.06.2011 EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, László Andor, has visited the Digital Skills Academy in Dublin, which is seeking applicants for its WebElevate... -
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with a 20-year-old Irish tech millionaire News
01.06.2011 Two years ago, the entire nation was stunned when the news emerged that two Limerick teenagers – John and Patrick Collison – had sold their first technology company for US$5m....Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Investments, Funding, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Business, Digital 21, ComputersTags: Limerick, Twitter, MIT, Foursquare, Skype, Silicon Valley, Angel Investors, eBay, Google, Venture Capital, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Collison Brothers,