Tagged: Funding & News
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Start-up visas will be key to growing the tech landscape News
22.06.2011 Alerted to the potential job-creation opportunities, locations like Silicon Valley and Ireland are getting behind the idea of creating start-up visas that allow overseas... -
US investment bank Needham & Co to work with Irish tech firms News
27.06.2011 Irish technology companies looking to grow their operations in the US or seek funding from US sources will be supported by US investment bank Needham & Company, LLC, which has... -
€24m investment given to telecommunications research News
26.05.2011 Minister for Research and Innovation Sean Sherlock has announced a €24m investment for the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTVR). -
Enterprise Ireland launches €1m ‘Go Global’ fund News
26.05.2011 Companies that are already successfully trading in Ireland but believe they could trade overseas have been invited by Enterprise Ireland to apply for grants of up to €25,000... -
Zynga could file for IPO as early as this week News
25.05.2011 Zynga is reportedly about to file for its IPO, which could happen between this week and the next. -
SeedUps’ SxSW winner is FibreCamp News
19.05.2011 The creator of a social media command centre for businesses has won the US$5,000 Pitchit5k competition held at the prestigious South-by-Southwest media festival in Texas by... -
IEDR launches e-commerce development fund News
04.05.2011 The IE Domain Registry (IEDR), which manages the .ie web address, has launched an e-commerce website development fund worth €100,000 in total for Irish SMEs. -
Crowd-sourced funding model attracts €25k so far News
15.04.2011 The Business 2 Arts-led crowdfunding site Fundit.ie, modelled on Kickstarter, has so far attracted pledges of €25,000 from the general public for 10 projects and creative ideas.Categories: Social Media, Multimedia, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Financial, eCommerce, Apps -
Google invests US$168m in largest solar energy power plant News
12.04.2011 Google has invested US$168m in a new solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert in California, developed by BrightSource Energy. -
Crowdfunding platform for creative ideas goes live News
25.03.2011 A crowdfunding platform dedicated to raising funds from the general public to support creative ideas from fashion to film and TV has gone live.Categories: Social Media, Media, Investments, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Financial, Digital Media -
Ten companies awarded Internet and Games Competitive Start fund News
25.03.2011 Ten companies have been awarded funding under Enterprise Ireland’s new Internet and Games Competitive Start Fund, it was announced.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Communications, Cloud -
Pharma boosts Kerry with almost 300 jobs News
16.03.2011 Three pharmaceutical companies have provided Kerry with a jobs boost today as 300 new positions are announced. -
Spotify could get US$100m in funding News
21.02.2011 Spotify is reportedly close to earning more than US$100m in funding by venture capital firm DST, valuing the music-streaming service at US$1bn. -
400 Dublin school students attend ComputeTY at DCU News
21.02.2011 More than 400 transition-year students from 26 schools across Dublin and its environs took part in the ComputeTY programme at DCU’s School of Computing, which introduced them to... -
Meraki raises $15m led by Sequoia Capital News
08.02.2011 The cloud-based wireless networking company Meraki has raised $15m in funding.Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Research, Internet, Funding, Development -
Internet meme publisher raises US$30m in funding News
18.01.2011 Cheezburger, the Internet publisher of websites such as I Can Has Cheezburger, Fail Blog and The Daily What has raised US$30m in funding. -
Enterprise Ireland invested in 80 start-ups in 2010 News
22.12.2010 Enterprise Ireland says it invested in 80 start-ups during 2010 and said that client companies grew export sales in 2010, recovering in the region of 70pc of the losses made in...Categories: R&D, Mobile, Management, Life Sciences, Investments, Intellectual Property, Green, Government, Funding, Energy, Digital Business -
Sonru funding reaches €1m, ready to go global News
20.12.2010 The maker of an award-winning automated video-interviewing tool, Sonru, has raised an additional €662,000 in a new funding round to internationalise its technology. This brings... -
Groupon rejects Google’s US$5bn+ offer News
04.12.2010 Grassroots e-commerce site Groupon is apparently big enough now to tell Google it is not interested in being acquired. The company is approaching US$2bn in revenues through... -
EU booklet that can help Irish businesses News
20.11.2010 Chambers Ireland has launched a new information booklet detailing European Union (EU) funding programmes to support research and innovation that can be availed of by Irish...