Tagged: Start-ups
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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... -
New guide gives helicopter view of Ireland’s tech start-up scene News
08.04.2013 For anyone wishing to get more insight into Ireland’s technology start-up ecosystem, Dublin-based venture capital (VC) firm Frontline Ventures has come up with a new guide that...Categories: Web, Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Networking, Mobile, Media, Marketing, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Engineering, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps, Application Design and Development -
Start-up sales booster Selr8r now seeking applicants for second round News
04.04.2013 Having just successfully completed its first outing, Selr8r, a unique mentor-driven sales accelerator programme, is ready for a second run at boosting selected start-ups’ sales. -
Dubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers News
02.04.2013 An innovative jobs fair will be taking place in Dublin later this month, with the aim of pooling together students, recent graduates and those aiming to break into the tech... -
Tech start-up of the week: Portable Medical Technology News
31.03.2013 This week’s tech start-up of the week is Portable Medical Technology Ltd, a company that develops accredited and trusted apps for medical specialists to reduce medical errors,... -
Aspiring entrepreneurs to head to Cork for Startup Weekend News
29.03.2013 University College Cork will be the setting for Cork’s first ever Startup Weekend next week, as coders, self-starters, designers, marketers and business minds will be teaming up... -
Social rewards app Popdeem will be ready for retailers next week News
28.03.2013 Fresh from successful showcases at the London Web Summit and the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Texas, Wayra-accelerated Irish start-up Popdeem is preparing for the... -
Tech start-up of the week: RazorSocial News
24.03.2013 This week’s featured start-up is RazorSocial, an online magazine founded by Ian Cleary and his wife Colette Mullen in June 2012. For Cleary and Mullen, building a business was... -
Irish Times Digital Challenge winner GetBulb heads to London to seek VC investment News
25.03.2013 Startupbootcamp alumnus and winner of The Irish Times Digital Challenge GetBulb will be in London today to pitch to venture capitalists and seek investment in the latest version... -
New tech CEO mastermind groups to spring up around Ireland News
22.03.2013 Business development services company Tenego is establishing DeliberateCEO groups around Ireland to bring CEOs of tech companies together to discuss common issues and problems.Categories: Software, Leadership & Management, Investments, Hardware, Funding, Enterprise, Digital Business -
Neelie Kroes gathers Leaders Club to help foster more European start-ups News
21.03.2013 Vice-president of the European Commission and commissioner in charge of the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes is leading a group of nine successful entrepreneurs that will meet...