Tagged: Bono & News
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Facebook sets final price for IPO at US$38 a share News
17.05.2012 Facebook has set the final price for its IPO Friday at US$38 a share in a flotation that will reap the network between US$16bn and US$18bn. This is likely to value the social...Categories: Social Media, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Facebook to increase size of IPO by 25pc, plans to raise US$15bn News
16.05.2012 Facebook is increasing the size of its IPO on Friday by 25pc and plans to raise US$15bn. Investor demand for shares has spurred the company into making the decision and shares... -
The Facebook IPO: What could you buy? (infographic) News
15.05.2012 The IPO of social networking giant Facebook this week is expected to pad the wallets of quite a few people, from U2 frontman Bono to the company's own employees. -
Are Bono and the Edge among Ireland's best tech investors? News
03.04.2012 U2’s Bono and the Edge have emerged as something of tech-investment supremos. Last night, it emerged via a tweet that both Bono and the Edge took part in the US$250m...Categories: Storage, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Weekend news roundup: Wi-Fi for Dublin parks, Bono Yelps News
05.03.2012 A roundup of some of the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, including another beautiful payday for Bono as a result of Yelp's IPO and very soon Wi-Fi may blanket Dublin parks.Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Government, Funding -
Weekend news roundup: Bono, webOS, hackers and fashion News
20.02.2012 A trawl through the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, which includes Bono's windfall from Yelp ahead of the Facebook IPO, how the IT people staved off the biggest hacker attack... -
Victoria Beckham 'crashes' Irish Hospice Foundation website News
03.02.2012 The Irish Hospice Foundation website crashed last night after fashion designer Victoria Beckham included a link to the charity in a tweet thanking U2 frontman Bono and his wife... -
Facebook's looming IPO – it could be Bono’s ‘Beautiful (pay) Day’ News
01.02.2012 All eyes are on Facebook’s initial public offer (IPO) prospectus today. The company is understood to be seeking to raise between US$5bn and US$10bn. Irish rock star Bono’s... -
Weekend news roundup News
05.12.2011 A roundup of some of the weekend's top newspaper tech stories, including Bono's lucrative investment in Facebook about to deliver, how a Limerick town name is too obscene for...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Education, Digital Media -
Weekend news roundup News
23.05.2011 A look at the weekend newspapers' technology news coverage, including how Bono brought Google to Ireland, how NFC will turn the UK into a cashless society and how computers are... -
Ricoh makes the 2011 Global 100 for seventh year running News
03.02.2011 The most sustainable companies in the world have been revealed at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with players like Ricoh, Nokia, Philips, Intel, Vodafone and HP, Panasonic...Categories: Telecommunications, Sustainability, IT Organisation, Investments, Green, Energy, Green Tech, CIO -
Bono’s VC firm to invest US$125 million in local search player Yelp News
28.01.2010 Rock star Bono’s venture-capital firm Elevation has agreed to make a US$125-million investment in Yelp, a firm specialising in local search whose technology has taken root in...Categories: Business -
Bono targets ISPs and their ‘swollen profits’ News
05.01.2010 "Rich service providers" were in the line of fire as U2 frontman Bono tackled the issue of illegal file sharing in a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, where he...Categories: Digital Life