Tagged: Michael Birch
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Michael Birch’s Charity:Water has served 2.3m people in 20 countries News
23.10.2012 Bebo founder Michael Birch’s non-profit Charity:Water has revealed it has invested US$37m in water projects around the world, serving some 2.3m people in the process. -
Collison brothers’ Stripe collaborates with Reddit and Dwolla's charity #give platform News
28.08.2012 The payment technology being developed in Silicon Valley by Limerick brothers John and Patrick Collison has been selected to power a new donations button platform being on one...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Internet, Funding, Financial, eCommerce, Digital Business -
Bebo’s back from the dead! News
01.02.2012 Bebo, the social network that nobody thought they would miss, is back from the dead and is very much alive after some kind of technical shenanigans forced it to go dark yesterday. -
Bebo’s gone dark – but it’s not dead! News
31.01.2012 News of Bebo’s demise appears greatly exaggerated! Technical hitches are understood to be the reason for Bebo going offline last night, which led to outpourings of collective... -
Top New Media videos of 2011 News
29.12.2011 We take a look at the top videos in New Media from 2011, covering the Dublin Web Summit and the latest opportunities in the games industry.Tags: Forfas, Enda Kenny, Zynga, Michael Birch, Rovio, Harry Moran, Christmas, Video Games, Gaming, Bebo -
Ireland can be origin of next big thing News
03.11.2011 What can Ireland as a nation learn from the world’s most successful tech entrepreneurs to drive home-grown, global successes?Tags: Entrepreneurs, Dublin Web Summit, Skype, Ireland, Michael Birch, Bebo, Rovio, Digg, LinkedIn, Silicon Valley, Venture Capital, -
Bebo’s back with a redesign News
12.04.2011 Just months after founder Michael Birch returned to Bebo and nine months after venture capitalists Criterion Capital Partners bought Bebo from AOL, the social networking site...Categories: Software & Web Development, Social Media, Servers, Internet, Data Centre, Communications -
The founder returns - Birch is back at Bebo News
09.12.2010 Bebo founder Michael Birch has returned to the company he sold to AOL in 2008 for US$850m. He will join the company as strategic adviser and has reinvested in the company.Categories: Social Media, Networking, Multimedia, Mergers & Acquisitions, Media, Investments, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Becoming the internet capital of Europe News
01.11.2010 Siliconrepublic editor John Kennedy says the arrival of the technology world’s elite, including Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube founder Chad Hurley and Twitter founder... -
World’s top 100 tech leaders will gather in Dublin News
12.10.2010 The founders of Skype, YouTube, Bebo and Twitter will join other young leaders of the most influential tech companies at the invite-only Founders event, which will take place in... -
The Bebo effect News
07.10.2010 Bebo co-founder Michael Birch, who sold the social network to AOL in 2008 for $850m, is back with Jolitics.com, a social networking site for political debate. -
Bebo founder Michael Birch launches public beta of new start-up News
30.09.2010 It is social networking with a twist … a political twist. Bebo co-founder Michael Birch has returned to the start-up world with a new venture, Jolitics.com. After being in... -
Bebo founder’s new political site goes into stealth mode in Ireland News
03.08.2010 Bebo founder Michael Birch’s new political website Jolitics.com is to go into stealth mode in Ireland in the next 48 hours. While the start-up will be based in Silicon Valley,... -
€30,000 in prizes for start-ups at Dublin Web Summit News
12.05.2010 Three selected start-ups who are chosen to present at the upcoming Dublin Web Summit could be in the running to win up to €30,000 as part of the Maples and Calder Spark of...