Tagged: Twitter & News
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The technology business week: Smartphones not selling fast enough, Irish firms forge contracts worth €17m on trade mission News
20.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Telecommunications, Social Media, Sales, Phones, Online Business, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Economy, Deals Done -
Google to take on Spotify with its own music subscriptions service News
15.05.2013 As things get under way at Google’s annual developer shindig I/O, it has emerged that Google is planning to add music subscriptions to the bevy of sectors it seeks to dominate,...Categories: Wireless Communications, Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Dublin’s Lord Mayor will take questions on Twitter tomorrow News
14.05.2013 Dublin’s Lord Mayor Mr Naoise Ó Muirí will be at the ready on Twitter tomorrow at the hashtag #AskNaoise, to answer questions from the tweeting public about the Irish capital –... -
Twitter buys data analysis start-up Lucky Sort News
14.05.2013 Twitter has snapped up Lucky Sort, a data analysis company that may help the microblogging site monetise tweets. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Deals Done, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
Astronaut Chris Hadfield and crew members safely return to Earth News
14.05.2013 Astronaut Chris Hadfield and two of his crew members, flight engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko, are back on terra firma today, after having returned safely to Earth... -
Cmdr Chris Hadfield’s final photos of Earth from space News
11.05.2013 Cmdr Chris Hadfield is to return to Earth on Monday after inhabiting the International Space Station since December, where he has been sharing his photos of the planet on social... -
Teenage coder’s hackathon project could put a stop to spoilers on Twitter News
09.05.2013 In the age of on-demand viewing and social media saturation, spoilers are a persistent danger – but 17-year-old coder Jennie Lamere is working on a solution to save us. -
Sir Alex Ferguson retirement memes News
09.05.2013 After Manchester United Football Club announced the retirement of manager Sir Alex Ferguson on its Twitter account yesterday, fans inundated social media with photos, tributes,... -
Sir Alex Ferguson retires via tweet, mentions reach 1.4m in one hour News
08.05.2013 Brace yourself, the Alex Ferguson social media tributes are coming – and they are coming thick and fast, according to stats from Twitter UK.Categories: Social Media -
New Century Ireland website marks ‘decade of centenaries’ News
08.05.2013 Visitors to the new Century Ireland online news service can now go back in time and explore images, news reports, academic research and other archival material from the time of... -
Bitbuzz takes the headache out of hotspot log-ins with Facebook and Twitter integration News
07.05.2013 Wi-Fi hotspots are becoming more common throughout Ireland, but users often bemoan those that require registration and log-in before browsing. Thankfully, Bitbuzz has heeded... -
The technology business week: Irish coder (13) to address titans of Silicon Valley, Facebook reaps Q1 revenues of US$1.46bn News
07.05.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Intel, Best Buy, Carphone Warehouse, Eircom, Jack Dorsey, IPO, Twitter, Facebook, Jordan Casey -
13-year-old Irish coder and CEO to address the titans of Silicon Valley News
02.05.2013 Jordan Casey, a 13-year-old from Waterford who taught himself how to write code and who at 12 was one of the youngest entrepreneurs to publish an app in the App Store, is to... -
Heineken Cup quarter finals via Twitter (infographic) News
01.05.2013 Heineken has been keeping an eye on the online chatter surrounding the Heineken Cup and has collated tweets about the event into an infographic. -
Twitter IPO not happening any time soon - Dorsey News
30.04.2013 It’s been nearly a year since Facebook’s IPO but another social networking giant isn’t going to follow suit any time soon. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has said the company is... -
Comedy Central teams up with Twitter for first ever #ComedyFest News
24.04.2013 For five days starting next Monday, Comedy Central’s first ever Twitter-based comedy festival intends to take over your feed with the help of more than 50 comedians on the network. -
#AskNaoise: Dublin’s Lord Mayor to hold Twitter Q&A News
24.04.2013 For just 15 minutes tomorrow, Thursday, 25 April, Twitter users are invited to ask Dublin’s Lord Mayor Mr Naoise Ó Muirí anything about the city during a Q&A using the hashtag...Categories: Social Media, Communications -
Twitter tests two-factor authentication, AP accounts suspended following hack News
24.04.2013 Yesterday, a fake tweet claiming there had been explosions in the White House and that US President Barack Obama had been injured was sent from the Associated Press (AP) Twitter... -
Irish web series CUCKOO battles Tom Hanks and The Walking Dead at the Webbys News
23.04.2013 CUCKOO, an Irish web series originally produced as part of the RTÉ Storyland competition is now in the final five shortlisted for the prestigious People’s Choice Award at the... -
Twitter #Music app to go live online and in iOS App Store today News
18.04.2013 Starting today, Twitter’s anticipated music-discovery app Twitter #Music will be available online and for the iPhone through Apple’s App Store.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Phones, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media, Apps