Categorised as: Digital Business
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Google pleads the First – wants removal of gagging order on data requests News
19.06.2013 Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national security requests. In the... -
Irish firm CarTrawler snaps up online assets of Holiday Autos News
19.06.2013 CarTrawler, the Irish-based online car rental platform, has its sights set on extending its global reach as the company has acquired the online assets of the car rental broker... -
Digital Hub CEO: digital competency needs to be pervasive across EU News
18.06.2013 Every country in Europe needs to ensure that digital competency is all-pervasive, the chief executive of the Digital Hub in Dublin told a gathering of the heads of eight...Categories: R&D, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Internet, Government, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
€500k search for world’s top start-up to begin in Dublin News
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... -
Killarney to become the first regional town in Ireland to roll out free Wi-Fi News
17.06.2013 Killarney, Co Kerry, is about to become the first town in Ireland to roll out complementary Wi-Fi to passers-by and tourists after signing a deal with Bitbuzz. The move follows... -
Dylan Collins’ latest venture Box of Awesome goes live in Ireland News
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... -
Advertising giant WPP takes a stake in microblogging service Muzy News
18.06.2013 Advertising giant WPP has taken a stake in Muzy, a Pinterest-like microblogging platform that has about 20m users. -
3,000 hires generated in Ireland’s booming digital media sector News
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... -
Apple reveals US law agencies made up to 5,000 data requests News
17.06.2013 In the fallout over revelations of the PRISM programme, technology giant Apple has said it does not provide any government agency direct access to its servers and revealed it... -
Clean, digital economy the focus of Dublin ‘gathering’ News
17.06.2013 It is gatherings galore in Dublin this week. As well as a meeting of Europe’s digital clusters in the Irish capital tomorrow, representatives from the IT, environmental and...Categories: Web, Sustainability, Software, Search Engines, Search, Science, Research, Networking, Internet, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Government, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Weekend news round-up: Snoopgate fallout continues; Saudi Arabia to ban Whatsapp News
17.06.2013 The fallout over Edward Snowden’s leakage of sensitive information about US intelligence surveillance of the internet continues and tech giants are taking it upon themselves to... -
Europe’s digital clusters to gather in Dublin this week News
17.06.2013 Eight digital clusters from around Europe, including Dublin’s Digital Hub, are to gather in the Digital Depot this Tuesday. The gathering precedes the European Digital Agenda... -
Tech start-up of the week: GetBulb News
16.06.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is GetBulb, a new Dublin-based venture that has come up with a data visualisation tool to allow people to create infographics to communicate their...Categories: Web, Multimedia, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Design, Data Management -
CIOs on the frontline of the war for 21st-century talent News
14.06.2013 With every business effectively now a technology business, the role of CIO has never been of greater significance. However, not only do CIOs have to be concerned with keeping...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Recruitment, Mobility, Mobile, Global CIO, Digital Business, Data Management, CIO -
The social good: an interview with Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s News
13.06.2013 In 1978 in rural Vermont in the United States, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen founded an ice cream brand that has resonated around the world chiefly thanks to their ethic of... -
Ireland’s Trustev named Europe’s Top Start-up by European Commission News
14.06.2013 European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes last night named fast-emerging digital fingerprint start-up Trustev as Europe’s Top Start-up, as part of the commission’s Tech...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, R&D, Investments, Internet, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Jobs boost potential as Govt makes €6.4bn available to invest in infrastructure News
13.06.2013 Thousands of new jobs may be on the cards in the construction of vital infrastructure in the areas of broadband, transport, energy and essential services after the Government of... -
Propertygate staves off 13 start-ups to win NDRC competition News
13.06.2013 A new start-up called Propertygate, which is developing an online solution for the property management industry, is set to get access to a €30,000 investment fund after winning... -
Software industry calls for overhaul of college access model News
13.06.2013 A group representing Ireland’s indigenous software sector has called for a shake-up of the college entry system so that the much-maligned points system is not the only way... -
First look: IDA Ireland's new global advertising campaign (video) News
13.06.2013 IDA Ireland, Ireland’s agency responsible for attracting major digital giants such as Twitter, Google and Facebook, is about to kickstart a global advertising campaign that...