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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. -
Would being acquired by Facebook be in Pinterest’s interests? News
10.04.2012 Facebook wants to have Corn Flakes with you. It would also like to help you shop for nice clothes and accompany you to nice places, check out nice art, too. Sounds like the... -
Lady Gaga and Harvard University to combat youth bullying News
06.03.2012 Pop star Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is teaming up with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to further academic research into both cyber bullying...Categories: Consumer Tech, Computers, Digital Media, Education, Global CIO, Internet, Investments, Media, Mobile, Multimedia, Networking, Social Media -
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. -
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, -
Digg’s Kevin Rose to speak at Dublin Web Summit News
04.10.2011 Internet entrepreneur Kevin Rose, co-founder of Digg, Pownce, Systm, Revision3 and Milk, has been announced among a crop of 20 new speakers who will be at the upcoming Dublin... -
75pc of Irish students favour Facebook as communication tool News
15.08.2011 Three-quarters of Irish students use Facebook as their main online channel to communicate, compared to 6pc who prefer email, a survey shows. -
75pc of Irish students favour Facebook as communication tool News
15.08.2011 Three-quarters of Irish students use Facebook as their main online channel to communicate, compared to 6pc who prefer email, a survey shows. -
Irishmen make Wired’s Europe 100 News
06.05.2011 Wired magazine’s European edition’s list of the 100 most influential players in digital business includes two Irishmen: Autonomy’s Michael Lynch, who started his US$870m...Categories: Software & Web Development, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Bids for MySpace expected – report News
27.04.2011 News Corp is expecting bids for its beleaguered social networking site MySpace in the coming days, The Wall Street Journal has reported. -
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 -
Murdoch’s News Corp begins MySpace sell-off News
25.02.2011 News Corp has begun selling off social networking site MySpace, the company it acquired in 2005 for US$580m. The floundering site is expected to be of interest to private equity... -
Google guru and Mashable co-editor at Dublin Web Summit News
28.01.2011 Dublin Web Summit’s organisers have revealed that Google’s head of marketing for Europe Dan Cobley and leading social media news site Mashable’s co-editor Ben Parr are to speak... -
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... -
Five Irish start-ups selected to pitch at Dublin Web Summit News
26.10.2010 Five young technology companies have been selected to pitch at the Maples & Calder Spark of Genius competition at the Dublin Web Summit this Thursday night, where some of the...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, Investments, Internet, Enterprise Applications, Economy, Digital Business, Apps -
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.