Tagged: Start-ups & News
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Cloud visionary and RTÉ ‘dragon’ to chair Govt Entrepreneurship Forum News
17.05.2013 Entrepreneur and investor Sean O’Sullivan, credited by MIT for co-coining the term ‘cloud computing’, has been appointed chairman of an Entrepreneurship Advisory Forum by the... -
Start-up guru aims to help entrepreneurs find work-life balance News
16.05.2013 Danish serial entrepreneur Martin Bjergegaard was in Dublin yesterday to give a talk at NovaUCD about his new book that gives insight into the lives of 25 entrepreneurs and... -
Startup Dublin event to explore innovation and business opportunities News
15.05.2013 A two-day event is kicking off in Dublin tomorrow to help start-ups tap into insights from experts around innovation, leadership and growth. One of the main speakers will be the... -
Ex-Google products chief launches social network for graduates and employers News
14.05.2013 Collegefeed, a new social network led by former Google head of product marketing Sanjeev Agrawal, opens its doors today. The new social network describes itself as a kind of... -
Sage Pay roadshow and new e-tail body offer e-commerce assistance to Irish businesses News
13.05.2013 In Ireland, €4bn of the total €35bn spent on retail goes to online retailers, but not necessarily those based in Ireland. This figure is predicted to grow to €11.3bn over the...Categories: Online Business, eCommerce -
Tech Brew event in Waterford to zero in on cloud computing News
10.05.2013 A free event called South East Tech Brew is taking place in Waterford next Thursday to bring together the south-east’s IT community, as well as start-ups, to hear from companies... -
Israeli news claims Facebook and Waze are in final talks for US$1bn takeover News
09.05.2013 Just over a year after it was announced that Facebook would shell out US$1bn for photo-sharing app Instagram, the social network is apparently gearing up for a second... -
New study aims to measure Europe’s app economy News
09.05.2013 A new project known as Eurapp has been launched by the European Commission with the aim of measuring the size of the app economy in Europe. The Digital Enterprise Research... -
Ennis innovation centre has places for start-ups on 2013 programme News
30.04.2013 Ennis Innovate, the innovation centre based in Ennis, Co Clare, has some spaces left on its 2013 incubation programme for start-ups based in the region. -
Tech All Stars competition seeks Europe’s hottest start-ups News
29.04.2013 The European Commission has launched the second edition of its Tech All Stars competition to recognise some of Europe’s most promising technology start-ups. Twelve start-ups... -
Seedcorn contest for start-ups launches with €280k fund News
29.04.2013 InterTradeIreland has launched this year’s all-island Seedcorn competition for start-ups and early stage ventures. In all, a prize fund worth €280,000 will be divided up amongst... -
100 entrepreneurs challenged to launch start-up ideas within 48 hours News
26.04.2013 The Guinness Enterprise Centre in Dublin will throw down an interesting gauntlet for 100 entrepreneurs at its Launch48 weekend in June – devise and launch a start-up idea within... -
Wayra seeks 10 digital start-ups for Dublin incubator News
25.04.2013 Wayra, Telefónica’s global start-up accelerator, is on the lookout for up to 10 digital start-ups to develop and commercialise their ideas at its Dublin accelerator.Categories: Virtualisation, Research, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Digital Media, Digital BusinessTags: Big Data, Machine-to-Machine Communications , Mobile, Virtualisation, Telefonica, O2, Start-ups, Cloud, HTML5 -
Google acquires news reader start-up Wavii for about US$30m - report News
24.04.2013 Google has beaten Apple to the punch in acquiring news feed start-up Wavii for around US$30m. -
Weekend news round-up: anti-CISPA web blackout; US to tax the internet? News
22.04.2013 In our trawl through the weekend’s best tech stories, it has emerged that the US Senate is about to vote on legislation to give states the power to tax online purchases; how...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Internet, Financial, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Start-ups to demo their innovations at Dublin Beta gathering News
12.04.2013 Dublin Beta is holding its next technology start-up gathering on Monday evening and 14 new ventures will be aiming to wow the crowds with their products and innovations. -
Seven Irish companies make the Red Herring 100 list of European tech firms News
11.04.2013 Seven Irish companies have made this year’s Red Herring 100 list of up-and-coming private European tech firms. This achievement shows that a small country like Ireland is... -
Google Ventures teams up with Andreessen Horowitz and KPCB to fund Glass projects News
11.04.2013 Vice-president of Google Ventures Bill Maris has announced that Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) will join the venture capital investment arm of...Categories: Investments, Development -
Task Me Now wins Startup Weekend in Cork for crowdsourcing app News
08.04.2013 Cork’s first ever Startup Weekend ended last night, with the top prize going to Task Me Now for its BrainCredit app to help companies crowdsource for expertise for specific... -
Career memes of the week: entrepreneurs News
09.04.2013 A couple of weeks ago, 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio sold his news summarising app Summly to internet giant Yahoo! for a rumoured US$30m. D’Aloisio developed the first version of...