Tagged: Denis O'Brien & News
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Denis O’Brien assembles Digicel consortium to pursue Myanmar mobile licence News
04.04.2013 Denis O’Brien has assembled a consortium of investors that includes US-Hungarian billionaire businessman and philantropist George Soros and Myanmar business leader Serge Pun to... -
The year in cloud - how Ireland lay the building blocks for the cloud economy News
29.12.2012 The year 2012 was a year of advancement for cloud computing on so many levels. As well as companies like Google and Microsoft revealing new cloud-based services, it was a year...Tags: Denis O'Brien, Richard Bruton, UCC, Dropbox, Martin Murphy, DCU, Amazon, Facebook, Cloud Computing, HP, Education, Google, Microsoft -
Denis O’Brien invests in new Centre of Cloud Computing at National College of Ireland News
01.10.2012 Businessman Denis O’Brien has funded the new Centre of Cloud Computing which will be based at the National College of Ireland in Dublin. The amount provided by O'Brien hasn't...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Investments, Education, Economy, Digital Business, Business Software -
Dublin disaster recovery firm Network Recovery acquires Barlan News
16.05.2012 Dublin-based cloud and disaster recovery firm Network Recovery, of which Digicel founder Denis O’Brien is a shareholder, has acquired the entire share capital of Barlan, an IT... -
The internet in Ireland is 20 years old today! News
15.05.2012 As Facebook – just a baby at eight – hurtles towards one of the most momentous IPOs in tech industry history, it almost went unobserved today that the internet as we know it in...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Communications -
Digicel acquires buys Haitian mobile operator Voilá News
02.04.2012 Digicel Group has acquired Haitian mobile operator Voilá from its parent company US-based Trilogy International Partners. Financial details of the transaction, which closed on... -
Digicel’s revenues grow 16pc to US$1.2bn News
02.12.2011 Digicel, Denis O’Brien’s mobile network in the Caribbean, Central American and Pacific, has notched up revenues of US$1.24bn, up 16pc year-on-year, for the first half of its... -
WorldIrish.com website aims to gather Ireland’s global tribe News
07.10.2011 A new website aimed at gathering the global Irish tribe was unveiled at the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin today, where Irish business leaders, ex-pats and global... -
Digicel revenues hit US$2.2bn – earnings up 27pc News
13.06.2011 In a fitting end to the company’s first decade in business, Denis O’Brien’s Digicel Group has reported a 27pc increase in revenues to US$2.23bn, with solid EBITDA margins at 43pc. -
Digicel revenues up 7pc to US$580m News
24.02.2011 Denis O’Brien’s Caribbean and South American mobile operator Digicel has reported revenues of US$580m for the past quarter, up 7pc. -
Denis O’Brien’s Digicel hits 11m subscribers News
01.09.2010 The mobile network operator started by billionaire Denis O’Brien reported this morning that it now has 11 million subscribers in 32 markets worldwide. -
Digicel revenues up 12pc to US$2.2bn News
17.06.2010 Denis O’Brien’s Digicel Group has recorded revenues of US$2.2bn for the year, up 12p on last year. Growth was driven largely by data, postpaid and BlackBerry revenues.Tags: Denis O'Brien, -
Ireland’s first online advertiser at the coalface of mobile ads News
02.03.2010 Colm Grealy, one of Ireland’s earliest internet pioneers as the man who posted the first internet ad in Ireland in 1996, is now at the coalface of mobile ad technology in 2010. -
O’Brien to net €500m in cash from Digicel Pacific sale News
22.02.2010 The telecoms tycoon Denis O’Brien stands to make more than €500 million in cash from the sale of his Digicel Pacific (DPL) to its sister company, Digicel Group.Categories: BusinessTags: Denis O'Brien, Digicel, -
Boxer consortium withdraws from digital TV deal News
20.04.2009 The Boxer DTT consortium, which was last year awarded the contract to provide commercial digital terrestrial television (DTT) in Ireland, has pulled out of the project.Categories: Comms -
South Pacific is music to O’Brien's ears News
17.07.2007 Having conquered the Caribbean, Irish billionaire Denis O’Brien is planning to emulate this success in the South Pacific.Categories: BusinessTags: Denis O'Brien, Digicel