Tagged: Jolt Online Gaming & News
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Fight My Monster raises US$2.1m in seed investment from Greycroft News
16.02.2012 Fight My Monster, a UK-based video games company chaired by Irish games entrepreneur Dylan Collins, considered to be one of the UK’s best start-up secrets, has closed a US$2.1m... -
Tech Jobs - Breaking into the games industry News
04.06.2011 The games industry is growing hugely in Ireland, with plenty of companies hiring right now. LAURA O’BRIEN finds out what it takes to land a dream job in this field. -
Games entrepreneur Dylan Collins leaves Jolt News
08.04.2011 Dylan Collins, the young Irish entrepreneur who has built and sold technology companies to two of the world’s biggest computer games firms, Activision and Gamestop, is leaving... -
Hefner promises no censorship of Playboy iPad app News
19.01.2011 Iconic US publisher Hugh Hefner, who recently regained control of the publishing empire he founded, has promised that when Playboy makes its way to the iPad, it will be uncensored.Categories: Wireless Communications, Mobility, Mobile, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Computers -
How do you win an iPad 2? Connections, of course News
08.12.2010 Irish tech entrepreneur Dylan Collins’ latest venture, group buying site Gruupy.com, has an iPad 2 device up for competition. How did he get his hands on one those? Connections,... -
Everything to play for - Ireland's gaming potential News
14.10.2010 With the phenomenal success of the global games industry, LAURA O’BRIEN examines where Ireland’s position is in the gaming market and what needs to be done to further it.Categories: Multimedia, Media, Leadership & Management, Jobs, Government, Games/Entertainment, Economy, Digital Media -
Top entrepreneurs to take 24 graduates under their wing News
20.09.2010 Some 24 graduates will be given three months of tutelage by some of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs, including Jolt’s Dylan Collins, and if they are lucky, may be in with a chance...Categories: Science, Sales, Private Irish Business, Graduate, Finding a Job, Economy, Digital Business -
Last call for iGAP 2 internet start-up accelerator News
27.08.2010 The second phase of the successful Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) is due to commence in October and interested start-up firms have until 6 September to register... -
The digital strategist who will drive the online gaming revolution News
29.07.2010 Entrepreneur Dylan Collins has sold three technology start-ups. Ireland, he says, must play to win. -
How Ireland can develop a thriving digital media sector News
29.07.2010 With our creative talents being recognised internationally, it’s time for Ireland to get animated about digital media and put in place policies and structures to support this...Categories: Multimedia, Media, Government, Education, Digital Media, Digital Business, Digital 21, DevelopmentTags: Jolt Online Gaming, Demonware, Havok, Infrastructure, Digital Economy, Arts, Start-ups, Oracle, Activision, Google, Microsoft, digital, -
Gaming supremo Collins is Ireland's Net Visionary 2010 News
21.05.2010 Dylan Collins, the 30-year-old entrepreneur who sold one of his first companies to Activision for US$15m and whose latest venture has been acquired by Gamestop – the largest... -
Savvy entrepreneur knows how to raise and change the game News
11.02.2010 Having sold his games-software company, DemonWare, to Activision for $15 million three years back, Dylan Collins recently scored another coup when GameStop made a major... -
The entrepreneurial opportunity News
01.02.2010 Speaker Dylan Collins is arguably Ireland’s poster boy for the sheer breadth of opportunities presented by the internet for Irish-based business start-ups with a global outlook....Categories: Special Events -
GameStop acquires stake in JOLT Online News
08.11.2009 Irish entrepreneur Dylan Collins, who sold his games-software company Demonware to Activision two years ago for US$15 million, has scored another coup, this time global... -
Major console games maker mulls a move from UK to Ireland News
30.09.2009 Realtime Worlds, a maker of popular console games like Crackdown and the upcoming All Points Bulletin, is considering abandoning its Dundee base in favour of Dublin, where tax...Categories: Business -
European nations see digital economy as a sure route out of economic crisis News
20.08.2009 With one of Europe’s youngest populations, Ireland’s digital natives could have the most to gain -
Playing the game: Irish playboy builds a global online empire News
04.06.2009 Dylan Collins, the entrepreneur who three years ago, at the age of 26, sold his Dublin-based technology company, DemonWare, to the world’s biggest computer game firm,...Categories: New Media, Digital Life -
Internet Growth Alliance to accelerate web start-ups News
15.05.2009 Irish internet firms need to scale up and grow fast, but lack the supports to do this, established entrepreneur Colm Lyon of Realex Payments told siliconrepublic.com, as he...Categories: Business