Categorised as: Digital Marketing & News
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Tablet computers account for 20pc of all online ad impressions News
24.05.2012 Millennial Media’s Q1 Mobile Mix report has claimed that non-phone mobile devices like tablet computers accounted for 20pc of all impressions on its advertising platform during... -
Microsoft lists Belfast app firm JamPot among Europe’s top start-ups News
24.05.2012 Belfast start-up JamPot is among 15 companies across Europe vying to be named Europe’s top start-up company as part of the Microsoft BizSpark European Summit in London. -
Facebook spices up its Social Graph with unique user analytics News
24.05.2012 Social network Facebook has added the ability within the Insights dashboard to allow app developers to monitor the number of unique people seeing and accepting their... -
Lawyers descend to pick over carcass of Facebook's troubled IPO News
23.05.2012 Little did we think a week ago that Facebook’s IPO would be seen as a tawdry mess. Indeed we all thought the golden boy of social media sites would be a roaring success.Categories: Social Media, Legal, Investments, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Gift voucher giant Smartbox to create 70 new digital economy jobs News
23.05.2012 One of Europe’s leading players in the production of gift vouchers and rewards, Smartbox, is to create 70 new jobs by establishing an international strategy, B2B, project... -
Nearly half of consumers will be ‘social shoppers’ by 2021 – Barclays News
23.05.2012 Sales from social commerce, driven by the influence of social media, are expected to more than double within the next five years, according to research from Barclays.Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Sales, Marketing, Internet, Financial, eCommerce, Digital Marketing, Digital BusinessTags: Social Commerce, Online shopping, Sales, Retail, Marketing, Social Media, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, -
Monty Munford and James Whelton to keynote at dot conf 2012 News
21.05.2012 Content strategy guru Monty Munford will take the stage at this year’s dot conf at the National College of Ireland in Dublin alongside CoderDojo co-founder James Whelton.Categories: Upskilling, Training, Social Media, Marketing, Education, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
RTÉ’s new digital strategy revealed – new Player in works News
21.05.2012 Siliconrepublic.com got a first look at RTÉ’s new digital strategy that will see every facet of Ireland's national broadcaster utilised for digital products. On the way is a...Categories: Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Is Microsoft’s new social network So.cl a direct attack on Google? News
21.05.2012 Microsoft has launched its own social network called So.cl. The new network appears to be more of a threat to Google+ than Facebook, featuring video parties to rival Hangouts,... -
Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan News
20.05.2012 In the same weekend that his eight year old company IPO’d on Nasdaq Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan.Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Software & Web Development -
Harvard Business Review publisher: relevancy is key to digital age News
18.05.2012 The key word of the digital age and in a time of social sharing and algorithms is ‘relevancy’, the publisher of the Harvard Business Review Josh Macht told publishers this week....Categories: Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Texting and its dangers, as New Jersey town denies penalty News
18.05.2012 Were you ever walking along, merrily tapping away on your phone, only to walk into a lamppost or bulldoze straight into another pedestrian? You wouldn’t be the only one. -
Soundwave aims to take music analytics to a whole new level News
17.05.2012 Imagine being able to capture in real-time what type of music your friends are listening to, or finding out the most popular musical choices are in your city? Well, today’s... -
44pc of people won’t click on Facebook sponsored ads News
17.05.2012 As Facebook’s business model comes under closer analysis in the run-up to tomorrow’s IPO new research claims 44pc of users say they would never click on Facebook sponsored ads.Categories: Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Soundwave wins NDRC Lift Off competition News
17.05.2012 Soundwave, the new Irish start-up that has come up with a music data analytics service to track in real-time what songs people are listening to, has won the NDRC Lift Off... -
Photo-bombed – Fiat pranks Volkswagen on Google Street View News
16.05.2012 Feisty Italian car manufacturer Fiat has scored bragging rights against German car manufacturer Volkswagen by placing a Fiat 500 outside the front door of Volkswagen’s Swedish...Tags: Google Street View, Google Maps -
Irish Times rolls out new CMS – putting digital into heart of newsroom News
15.05.2012 Irish Times editor Kevin O’Sullivan told the Media Future Conference 2012 in Dublin today that the newspaper is going to be making one of the most important shifts in its...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Communications, Apps -
Yahoo!’s Scott Thompson steps down following CV gaffe News
14.05.2012 UPDATE - Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has sensationally resigned from the post after just months in the job for “personal reasons.” The move comes just a week after a controversy... -
New Sweat for Equity programme to get start-ups going News
11.05.2012 Techies, creatives and those with ideas for new start-ups can now apply for Swequity Exchange, a new programme that the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) in Ireland is...