Tagged: Silicon Valley
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Meet the world’s youngest billionaire (and it’s not Zuckerberg) News
18.05.2012 He’s a Harvard dropout, Facebook co-founder and he’s the world’s youngest billionaire by just eight days. Meet Dustin Moskovitz.Categories: Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, DevelopmentTags: Silicon Valley, Social Media, Investment, IPO, Development, Software, Engineering, Spotify, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, -
Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack News
19.05.2012 Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update... -
Weekend news roundup: Facebook smartphone and the end of Silicon Valley's Golden Age News
21.05.2012 The weekend newspapers' tech coverage was full of interesting insights into the Facebook IPO but what's coming next is what most folks would really need to know. One Silicon... -
California cloud start-up Box looks to 2013 IPO News
11.05.2012 Box, the cloud-based start-up that was spawned in 2005 from a college project, appears to be heading for an IPO in mid to late 2013. -
Collison brothers’ start-up Stripe hurtling towards US$1bn valuation? News
04.05.2012 Five years ago the nation of Ireland woke up to the news that two Limerick teenagers had sold their technology company for US$5m. Zoom forward to today and the indications are...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business, Apps -
New ISA post-grad software degrees are first of their kind globally News
03.05.2012 The Irish Software Association (ISA) Skillnet last night unveiled two new post-graduate level qualifications in the area of product management which are understood to be the...Categories: Upskilling, Training, R&D, Project Management, Intellectual Property, Enterprise, Education -
SFI-funded scientists to head to Silicon Valley News
30.04.2012 Two Irish researchers from DCU and TCD have won an opportunity to head to Silicon Valley and meet with business and scientific research pioneers. Science Foundation Ireland... -
Weekend news roundup – hacker in residence, Google’s privacy bumbles News
23.04.2012 In our trawl through the weekend newspapers' tech coverage, we learn that 20-year-old Cork coder James Whelton has been named 'hacker in residence' for seasoned tech investor...Categories: Digital Business, Digital Media, Economy, Funding, Games/Entertainment, Internet, Investments, Security, Servers, Web -
Angel investor Bill Payne covers US trends: part 2 (video) News
20.04.2012 In this second video extract from Angel MeetUp 2012 in Dublin, US angel investor Bill Payne talks about trends in pre-money valuations in seed and start-ups in the US in 2010... -
Top angel investor Bill Payne covers US trends (video) News
20.04.2012 US angel investor Bill Payne took to the stage in Dublin on Wednesday to give the keynote at Angel MeetUp, Ireland’s first ever event to link up angel investors.Categories: Legal, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Financial, Engineering, Deals Done, Mergers & Acquisitions, R&D, Software, Web -
Venture capital fund ITC establishes European HQ in Limerick News
17.04.2012 Irish Technology Capital (ITC), the Silicon Valley-based venture-capital fund created by Irish diaspora technology leaders and investors, has announced in association with...Categories: Investments, Funding -
Limerick IT reveals new €1m seed fund for start-ups News
16.04.2012 In a welcome move to help start-ups in the mid-west region access early stage finance, Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) is starting a new €1m seed fund. -
OPINION – A guide to Irish innovators on raising money News
14.04.2012 In the second part of a series of guest posts Silicon Valley venture capitalist Richard Moran reveals the secrets to a perfect pitch for Irish innovators hoping to secure...Categories: Social Media, Research, R&D, Investments, Internet, Funding, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Business, Software & Web Development -
Are Bono and the Edge among Ireland's best tech investors? News
03.04.2012 U2’s Bono and the Edge have emerged as something of tech-investment supremos. Last night, it emerged via a tweet that both Bono and the Edge took part in the US$250m...Categories: Storage, Social Media, Investments, Internet, Hosting Services, Funding, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Business -
#DIF12 – Tackling the skills gap: we need programmers who start at 14 News
23.03.2012 The most successful entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley learned how to code from the age of 14, RTÉ Dragons' Den's Sean O’Sullivan told today’s Digital Ireland Forum in Dublin. BT... -
Ireland’s 2020 workplace and new IT demands – Cisco head News
22.03.2012 With one in three students and young professionals apparently now viewing the internet as being as vital as air, water and food, Cisco’s country manager for Ireland Adam Grennan... -
Silicon Valley start-up moves to Ireland, plans to create 30 jobs News
21.03.2012 A new Silicon Valley start-up called iTRACglobal has chosen to set up its headquarters in Ireland by basing itself at University of Limerick’s Nexus Innovation Centre. It now... -
And the winners of 2012 ITLG Innovation Awards are … News
14.03.2012 Five young Irish technology companies were awarded for the depth of their innovation and the potential of their businesses at the fifth annual ITLG/Irish Times Innovation Awards... -
Talent is Ireland’s secret weapon in digital games race News
14.03.2012 In the global race for supremacy in digital game production Ireland is fast emerging as a location for high-quality digital games developers, with graduates virtually guaranteed... -
Tracking the growth in mobile spending in Ireland (infographic) News
15.03.2012 Figures on mobile spending that will be presented at the Techovate 2012 B2B conference at Wexford Opera House next week show how consumers appear to be migrating to the...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, Multimedia, Mobile, Internet, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, ComputersTags: Tablet, Smartphone, Ireland, Digital Economy, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Bill Liao, Mobile, Consumer, digital, B2B, Online shopping,