Categorised as: Social Media & News
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Facebook introduces new photo app ‘Facebook Camera’ News
24.05.2012 Facebook has introduced a new photo sharing app for the iPhone called Facebook Camera that makes it easier for the social network’s users to share multiple photos in one go plus...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Consumer Tech, Digital Media, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Multimedia, Phones, Social Media, Wireless Communications -
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 -
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... -
Moshi Monsters is coming to mobile – scary growth predicted News
24.05.2012 Moshi Monsters, the ‘Facebook for kids’ used by one in three children in the UK, is coming to mobile devices. Mind Candy, the company behind Moshi Monsters, led by Michael...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Yahoo! reveals 'game-changing' Axis browser News
24.05.2012 Yahoo! is muscling in on the busy browser space with its own mobile browser technology called Axis, which it says will redefine search and browsing.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Daily deals directory app launched for iPhone and iPad News
23.05.2012 MyDealPage.ie has launched Ireland’s first dedicated daily deal directory app which makes it easy to find the best offers you like from Groupon, LivingSocial, GrabOne and more.Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps Zone, Apps -
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 -
The death of privacy News
24.05.2012 A better understanding of privacy is required at all levels of society, writes John Kennedy. He warns that 21st-century technology will stretch the limits and our notions of... -
BT calls on students to enter Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition News
23.05.2012 BT Ireland has launched the 2013 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, so students from around Ireland have until 1 October to enter their ideas and inventions. -
Robert Moog synthesiser top 20 recordings News
23.05.2012 Today has seen a whirlwind of interest in the Google Doodle for electronic music pioneer Robert Moog. The Doodle, which allows users to compose tunes on a digital replica of the... -
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 -
Facebook testing subtle Timeline redesign News
23.05.2012 While the business world is heavily distracted by the social network giant’s declining stock, Facebook has quietly begun testing a new-look Timeline for user profiles. -
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, -
36pc of CV padders lose job when found out - survey News
23.05.2012 Recent headlines have brought the issue of CV padding under the spotlight and job applicants should also heed the fact the internet provides employers with means to verify... -
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... -
A pint of the black stuff becomes a QR code News
22.05.2012 You might be only able to get a perfect pint of Guinness in Dublin, but in some bars you might get served a QR Cup of the black stuff. -
Twitter lights up with images of solar eclipse (photos) News
22.05.2012 Yesterday’s annular solar eclipse has been well-documented in images from Twitter users.