Tagged: Twitter & News
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Weekend news round-up – Snapping at Snapchat, inside the Twitter business machine News
11.02.2013 In our round-up of the weekend’s top tech stories, we look at coverage of the mystique behind Snapchat, Microsoft’s confusing Surface Pro launch, the momentum of the Y...Categories: Wireless Communications, Storage, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Hardware, Digital Media, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers, AppsTags: Apple, Windows 8, Surface, Microsoft, Apps, Twitter, Facebook, Computers, Personal Computers, Smartphones, Venture Capital, Funding -
The technology business week: Dell goes private, Kerry firm Fexco signs e-payments deal with Sofort News
11.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week. -
Live updates from the #FutureJobs Forum News
08.02.2013 As the race continues globally to find and attract the best talent, Ireland today finds itself competing with an ever-growing number of countries, for the best candidates in...Categories: Training, Social Media, Recruitment, Government, Education, Economy, Careers and Employment, Upskilling -
Twitter eyes the total media prize – acquires social TV firm Bluefin Labs News
05.02.2013 Twitter’s claim to be a media company that has technology at its core is becoming clearer. Just one day after it saw over 24.1m tweets flutter during the Super Bowl it has... -
Ahead of broadband launch Sky reveals Ireland is a watch-and-tweet TV nation News
04.02.2013 Just ahead of the launch of new broadband and phone services this week, Sky has revealed new research that shows 50pc of the adult population of Ireland juggle other online... -
Twitter joins growing list of media websites to be hacked - 250k accounts compromised News
03.02.2013 It emerged over the weekend that as many as 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised in a hacker attack. Twitter joins a growing array of major sites to be attacked in...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Digital Media -
Weekend news round-up: The end of the web as we know it, will 4G be expensive? News
04.02.2013 In our trawl through the most interesting tech stories from the weekend, we discover a computer scientist who heralds the web as we know it today will be history; e-commerce...Tags: Apple, Apps, Twitter, Facebook, Data Privacy, EU, US, 4G, 3, LTE, Smartphones, Pinterest, Tablet Computers -
Touchdown! Twitter reveals 24.1m tweets were sent during Super Bowl XLVII News
04.02.2013 Amid the advertising extravaganza that was Super Bowl XLVII, aside from the Baltimore Ravens crushing the San Francisco 49ers 34-31, the other real winner this year was Twitter,...Categories: Social Media, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Marketing, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Consumer Tech -
The technology business week: RIM rebrands as BlackBerry, Amartus raises €1.2m investment News
04.02.2013 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Categories: Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Marketing, Investments, Financial Results, Deals Done, Consumer Tech -
Pixelated Molly Malone is alive-o on Twitter thanks to Dublin’s free Wi-Fi hotspots News
01.02.2013 Dublin’s new free Wi-Fi hotspots, provided by Dublin City Council and powered by Gowex, began rolling out yesterday. Making the most of this newly connected Dublin City is the... -
Twitter tweaks how users view photos and video News
31.01.2013 Twitter has rolled out updates to its service to make it easier to view photos and videos, and follow the replies and conversations that stem from individual tweets. -
Dublin City to launch 12 free Wi-Fi hotspots tomorrow News
30.01.2013 A free Wi-Fi initiative will start to roll out for Dublin City dwellers tomorrow, as Dublin City Council is launching 12 free Wi-Fi hotspots, including along Grafton Street, in... -
Facebook world’s largest social network, followed by Google+ - index News
29.01.2013 Google+ has shot past Twitter and YouTube to become the world’s second-largest social network, the Global Web Index suggests, while Facebook retains its grip at the top of the... -
Twitter snaps up app crash-reporting start-up Crashlytics News
29.01.2013 Twitter has acquired the Boston-based start-up Crashlytics, which has developed a reporting tool to help developers figure out what causes their apps to crash. -
Twitter launches transparency report site on Data Privacy Day News
28.01.2013 In the spirit of an open and safe internet – and to mark international Data Privacy Day, a day focused on raising awareness and promoting data privacy education – Twitter has... -
Weekend news round-up: Cook rallies Apple's troops, The Vine becomes the web's hottest property News
28.01.2013 In our round-up of what's been happening over the weekend in tech, Apple CEO Tim Cook has rallied the Apple troops and has said that despite the pummeling by Wall Street and... -
Twitter keeps Vine in the loop with launch of six-second video app News
25.01.2013 While companies are vying to create the ‘Instagram of video’, Twitter just went ahead and bought a start-up to launch a service that’s the Twitter of the Instagram of video.... -
Michelle Obama joins Twitter – but doesn’t follow Barack’s account News
18.01.2013 US First Lady Michelle Obama has joined the ranks of the twitteratti and opened a Twitter account. So far, she is following 15 people and organisations on the microblogging... -
Social video platform Keek raises US$18m in funding News
17.01.2013 Fast growing social video network Keek – think Twitter meets YouTube – has just raised US$18m in funding, bringing its total funding raised so far to US$30m. -
Twitter rolls out Oscars index News
17.01.2013 Microblogging site Twitter has launched an Oscars index, a Twitter page that tracks and measures all the buzz surrounding six categories in the 85th Academy Awards that honour...