Tagged: Blogs & News
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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 -
Tumblr president John Maloney quits News
01.05.2012 The president of blog hosting platform Tumblr John Maloney resigned from his post this past weekend because his skills became less relevant as the company grew, The Wall Street... -
Syrian Electronic Army hacks LinkedIn blog News
26.04.2012 LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, appears to be the victim of a cyber attack by a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army. -
Twitter exceeds 500m subscribers News
23.02.2012 Watch out Facebook, Twitter is gaining fast on you! New figures reveal that Twitter has exceeded 500m subscribers. Within three months it is likely to hit the 600m milestone. -
Blog empire Populis acquires South American digital brand Cidade News
07.02.2012 Dublin-headquartered Populis has expanded into the Brazilian content production sector with the acquisition of Cidade Internet, one of Brazil’s largest web portals.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Marketing, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
New Household Charge website sparks privacy debate News
05.01.2012 A blogger has caused a major kerfuffle by pointing to privacy issues on the new Household Charge website. Environment Minister Phil Hogan has had to row in and reassure citizens... -
WordPress.com to let users earn money from blogs with WordAds News
29.11.2011 Blogging platform WordPress.com has introduced WordAds, letting people carry ads on their blogs and make money from them. -
Massive cyber security breach hits Sweden News
26.10.2011 The login details of some 210,000 Swedes, including politicians and media figures, have been exposed in what is the biggest cyber security breach in the country’s history,... -
Blogging giant Populis in finance software deal with Sage News
26.10.2011 Global blogging network Populis, which is headquartered in Dublin, has signed a deal with financial software player Sage to upgrade from Sage 50 to Sage 200 to run the financial... -
Storyful enters joint venture with Tweetminister News
12.10.2011 Broadcaster Mark Little’s curated news service Storyful has entered into a partnership with high-profile UK political news aggregator Tweetminister that will see the two online...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Internet, Digital Media -
The Populis blogging empire expands with €8.2m acquisition News
15.09.2011 New media publishing empire Populis, which has European headquarters in Dublin, has continued its acquisitive growth with the purchase of Berlin-based Mokono – Germany’s biggest... -
AOL confirms Arrington’s departure from TechCrunch News
12.09.2011 TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington has “moved on”, according to AOL. Staffer Erick Schonfeld has been named the new editor of the Silicon Valley start-up bible. -
60pc of active internet users access blogs and social networks News
12.09.2011 Social networks and blogs now account for a quarter of the time Americans spend on the internet and in May Americans spent 53bn total minutes on Facebook, according to research...Categories: Web, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Marketing -
Tweet Jesus! Twitter hits 100m active users News
09.09.2011 Twitter has revealed it now has 100m active users around the world, just five years after co-founder Jack Dorsey (aka @Jack) sent the first tweet to his seven followers at the... -
Chinese authorities find 22 more fake Apple stores News
12.08.2011 An investigation in China has unearthed 22 more shops in the southwestern city of Kunming selling products under Apple branding without permission to do so. -
Police arrest man for building nuclear reactor in kitchen News
02.08.2011 Police in Sweden have arrested a 31-year-old man after he asked the Swedish Radiation Authority whether it was legal to build a nuclear reactor in one's kitchen. -
A guide to developing a social media process News
01.08.2011 Keeping it social: A 10-step guide to developing a social media process that can be applied to any organisation. -
Weekend news roundup News
25.07.2011 A trawl through some of the weekend papers' tech coverage, including a US judge throwing out Oracle's case against Google's Android OS, how social shopping via tuned in blog... -
A loving legacy – blog enables mum to live forever News
22.07.2011 An Irish mother diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer but expecting her third child has set up an online diary as a legacy to her children so they can remember her forever. The...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Multimedia, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
iPhoney - fake Apple stores turn up in China News
21.07.2011 If it looks like an Apple store, smells like an Apple store, and staff act like its an Apple store ... it may not be an Apple store. Not in one Chinese city, anyway. A blogger...