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Essential weekend reading about the business of tech, from venture capital funding to IPOs, analytics, innovation and e-commerce.
Google’s ads boss says trust is the biggest issue facing the web
Google’s Sridhar Ramaswamy pictured at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York. Image: Noam Galai/Getty Images/TechCrunch/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
The head of Google’s global ads business, Sridhar Ramaswamy, believes in the open web, but warns trust is crucial. He talks to John Kennedy.
Wake-up call as Irish venture capital falls and seed funding crashes
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Irish venture capital funding falls for the first time since 2011, while seed funding for early-stage start-ups crashes almost 40pc.
Hot ticket Eventbrite raises $230m in IPO
Eventbrite co-founder and CEO Julia Hartz on stage at the Female Founders Forum in Dublin, 2014. Image: Conor McCabe Photography
Eventbrite fares well on its first day of trading.
Retailers missing out as Ireland’s e-commerce spend reaches €12.3bn a year
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Retailers are letting sales slip through their fingers to overseas websites while just three in 10 SMEs can take orders through their websites.
Government announces new mandatory cybersecurity requirements
Energy providers will be under the remit of the new cybersecurity rules. Image: Lumppini/Shutterstock
Minister Denis Naughten, TD, has announced important new security requirements for critical national infrastructure in Ireland.
Equinix spends €5m on Dublin land to build more data centres
Equinix managing director for Ireland and emerging markets, Maurice Mortell. Image: Equinix
West Dublin is still booming in terms of data centres and soaring data volumes.
Innovators across Ireland lauded at Invention of the Year Awards
From left: Prof Cian Ó Mathúna, Kieran Meade and Dr Aleksandra Augustyniak. Image: Cathal Noonan
A plethora of fascinating projects received accolades at the Invention of the Year Awards, from a neonatal bovine vaccine to a ‘Photoshop for audio’.
Meet the ‘stats ambassadors’ taking the fear out of numbers
Participants at the RSS statistical ambassador training day, with Joy Leahy and Dr Norma Bargary in centre. Image: bigTimages/RSS
Ireland now has two ‘stats ambassadors’ to boost the understanding and reporting of statistics. Dr Norma Bargary and Joy Leahy spoke to Dr Claire O’Connell.
Amazon unveils a smorgasbord of new connected devices
AmazonBasics microwave. Image: Amazon
Amazon is planning to dominate the smart home market with Alexa-connected clocks and microwaves.
It’s a fast way to Tipperary as Siro expands to Nenagh and Roscrea
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Two more Tipperary towns to be connected to Siro’s 1Gbps network.
