In 2003, two Trinity College Dublin graduates, Dylan Collins and Sean Blanchfield, did a very unfashionable thing at the time. They started a technology company in the unforgiving post-dotcom crash environment that aimed to do something that at the time seemed nigh impossible – they wanted to give console gamers the ability to play against each other over the internet.
26.Mar.2013 11:00
Storybook and mobile app cartoon character Walter the Wandering Wave, created by Irish entrepreneur Shane Janssens, is set to have his own TV programme around the world. Janssens’ publishing company Belly of Fire is seeking to raise €30,000 in seed capital on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to produce an animation TV pilot.
26.Mar.2013 10:33
Entrepreneurs with a remarkable story to tell and a track record to match are being encouraged to enter the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, which is making its final call for nominations.
25.Mar.2013 17:13
Precision Engineered from Trinity College Dublin and Platform Planet from Queen’s University Belfast emerged victorious at the 2013 upStart entrepreneurship awards organised by banking giant Citi.
25.Mar.2013 11:02
Startupbootcamp alumnus and winner of The Irish Times Digital Challenge GetBulb will be in London today to pitch to venture capitalists and seek investment in the latest version of its product, which makes data visualisation a doddle.
25.Mar.2013 06:36
This week’s featured start-up is RazorSocial, an online magazine founded by Ian Cleary and his wife Colette Mullen in June 2012. For Cleary and Mullen, building a business was about their two main passions: passing on their knowledge and experience and building innovative and exciting technology.
24.Mar.2013 08:00
Eight promising young technology companies are due to complete the intensive 50-day SELR8R sales accelerator programme in Cork next week equipped with the skills to sell to the global market.
22.Mar.2013 17:51
Adding to existing libraries it has in place from Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android ecosystems, Irish brothers John and Patrick Collison’s Silicon Valley mobile payments firm Stripe has partnered with mobile app platform Parse to help developers add payments to their apps.
21.Mar.2013 17:28
Vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner in charge of the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes is leading a group of nine successful entrepreneurs that will meet regularly to discuss how best to encourage more European start-ups.
21.Mar.2013 14:57
Educational publisher Folens is backing a new boutique investment fund called the Leaf Fund that aims to invest between €250,000 and €1m in early stage learning technology companies.
20.Mar.2013 13:15
For the first time an Irish company called Archipelago is to appear on tubs of Ben & Jerry’s new ice cream Clever Cookies after being one of four companies to win the Join Our Core competition aimed at finding the world's best social entrepreneurs.
19.Mar.2013 14:59
Basic business lessons learned in a 70-plus year-old family business in Galway City have helped play a pivotal role in the success of a young Irishman who can claim credit for having opened up the internet economy in the Middle East.
19.Mar.2013 12:26
This week’s featured start-up is Element Software, a Galway-based software development and consulting company specialising in mobile apps for businesses in the media, sports, travel and technology industries.
17.Mar.2013 08:00
NUI Galway students, as well as members of the public, will be able to get the scoop on all it takes to start a business at an event in Galway City featuring Barry O’Sullivan, senior vice-president at Cisco Systems and one of the new investors on RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den programe.
13.Mar.2013 12:25
Across the world people are beginning to invent new products ranging from games consoles to watches and thermostats, raise finance by asking the public to support their endeavours on crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter, Fundit and IndieGoGo, and are bringing their inventions to market in a totally crowd-sourced way. Are we witnessing the onset of a new industrial revolution?
12.Mar.2013 10:57
Talk to anybody in the software industry in Ireland or anywhere else in the technology industry globally and they will tell you that good software developers are as rare as hen’s teeth. In Ireland, there are an estimated 5,000 current vacancies. And already since the start of the year more than 1,400 new technology jobs have been created in companies ranging from FireEye to HubSpot, Facebook and eBay, to name a few.
12.Mar.2013 10:20
