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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg dodges IPO questions at Harvard News
24.05.2012 Facebook's chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg had plenty to say about gender roles in the workplace but remained fairly tight-lipped about the social network's recent IPO...Categories: Social Media, Leadership & Management, Financial, Education, Careers and Employment, Career Advice -
Irish tech firms gave €1.4m to local charity and the community last year News
24.05.2012 Tech firms AOL, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle contributed more than €1.4m to local community groups and charities in 2011, according to Business in the Community Ireland. -
Kilkenny research and innovation centre opens News
24.05.2012 Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD, is this morning officially opening a new research and innovation centre in Kilkenny. The centre is aiming to be at the forefront of next-generation...Categories: Telecommunications, Science, R&D, Internet, Financial Services, Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Science-2-Business forum to focus on business innovation News
23.05.2012 A new programme to show how scientific research can be commercialised will take place at the Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) in Dublin this July, but today marked the launch of...Categories: Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Legal, Investments, Intellectual Property, Financial, Engineer, Energy, Career Advice -
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 -
Social gambling could be a US$100bn industry by 2017 News
23.05.2012 Juniper Research estimates that mobile gambling could reach a global figure of US$100bn by 2017, driven by social gaming and the development of mobile wallets.Categories: Social Media, Research, Phones, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Financial, eCommerce, Digital Business, Business Intelligence -
Dublin ad firm to acquire Proventus Energy in €55m deal News
23.05.2012 Dublin outdoor advertising firm Captive Audience Display Solutions (CADS) is holding an EGM today to approve its proposal to carry out a reverse takeover of the UK renewable...Categories: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Investments, Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Deals Done -
Dell reports 4pc drop in revenue to US$14.4bn News
23.05.2012 Computer maker Dell says it is progressing in its move to being a total enterprise services and solutions provider, and reported revenue for its fiscal 2013 first quarter of... -
Eircom to exit examinership on 11 June News
22.05.2012 The High Court has approved a scheme recommended by Eircom’s examiner Michael McAteer that will allow it to exit examinership on 11 June. Under the scheme of arrangement...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Financial, Communications -
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, -
Bloomberg buys Irish tech firm PolarLake, rolls out new data service News
22.05.2012 Global financial news service Bloomberg has acquired Dublin-based semantic web software company PolarLake for an undisclosed sum. As a result, Bloomberg is launching a new...Tags: Big Data, Semantic Web, -
Meet the world’s youngest billionaire (and it’s not Zuckerberg) News
18.05.2012 He’s a Harvard dropout, Facebook co-founder and he’s the world’s youngest billionaire by just eight days. Meet Dustin Moskovitz.Categories: Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, DevelopmentTags: Silicon Valley, Social Media, Investment, IPO, Development, Software, Engineering, Spotify, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, -
Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack News
19.05.2012 Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update... -
Vodafone Ireland invests €120m in network upgrade News
22.05.2012 Vodafone’s Irish operations invested €120m in the last year on developing its network, the largest investment by any network operator in Ireland this year. -
Facebook shares drop to US$34.03 – price of hype or voice of reason? News
22.05.2012 Facebook shares closed last night at US$34.03, more than 25pc from its high on Friday. With Morgan Stanley coming to the rescue with US$2.4bn worth of underwriting action, is it...Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Tech start-up of the week: WorldNet News
20.05.2012 This week our tech start-up to watch is WorldNet. Around since 2008, it has come up with a new tech innovation called Payjack to allow small businesses accept credit card...Tags: Start-ups, Credit Cards, API, E-commerce, Mobile, SME, Enterprise Ireland, iPhone, iPad, Android -
Financial results this week News
21.05.2012 Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.Categories: Financial Results, Financial -
Facebook IPO closes at US$38.23 after first day’s trading News
18.05.2012 One of the most eagerly awaited IPOs in tech industry history ended not far from where it started – Facebook opened at US$38 and while share soared to US$45 at one point by the... -
Facebook shares leap to US$43, then drop in IPO's first day News
18.05.2012 Social networking giant Facebook's IPO got off to a rocketing start, with shares leaping an initial 13pc to US$43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time today. -
How much is Zuckerberg worth? (infographic) News
18.05.2012 The team at Visual.ly has come up with a live infographic to keep us all up-to-date with the answer to the question on everyone’s minds today.