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Retail price intelligence firm Profitero raises €750,000
Profitero, a start-up company that provides pricing intelligence to retailers, has secured a €750,000 investment from the Bank of Ireland Start-up and Emerging Sectors Equity Fund, managed by Delta Partners. Profitero, established in 2010, offers an online service to retailers for monitoring their competitors’ prices, stock availability and shipping charges. “Profitero is an example of...
€26 million waiting for tech start-ups
The Northern Ireland based intelligent crowd funding site Seedups says it has a €26,000,000 investment pool available for tech startups. Seedups was founded by Michael Faulkner in 2010 as a means of connecting tech-startups with tech-savvy investors. Seedups uses a “wisdom of crowd” matching engine to give a fair valuation of a startup’s worth. Investors...
RendezVu releases examspeak.com
The e-learning company RendezVu has announced the release of ExamSpeak (www.examspeak.com) a new online language learning platform. ExamSpeak prepares English language learners for their speaking exams by replicating the exam in real time. How it works Students can introduce themselves to the virtual examiners, answer typical exam questions, talk to other test takers and then...
Social games are soaring
Social gaming is fast becoming the biggest thing to happen to the web since social networks themselves. A new study of gamers in the UK and the US finds that 118.5 million people now play social games at least once a week. This is an increase of a massive 71% compared with the same study...
Irish online adspend surges to €65m
Online advertising spend in Ireland has ‘bucked the recession’ and increased by 20% for the first half of 2011 (H1), compared to 2010. €65 million was spent online by Irish advertisers while spend on other media in H1 2011 has been valued by Nielsen at €443.4m down 1.5% year on year. Online adspend brings the...
Towards Ireland’s digital horizon
An international forum was held at Farmleigh House recently. It was called ‘Future Forum’ and its aim was to create an action plan for ‘digital inclusion’ in Ireland. Put simply, digital inclusion means involving more people of all ages and socio-economic backgrounds in the digital world. The event was co-hosted by Dublin City Council. Peter...
Inside the mind of a cybercriminal
Ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a ‘cybercriminal’? Well, now’s your chance. Tomorrow, (Wed 9th November) a seminar called ‘Innovative Exploitation of Human Behaviour by Cybercriminals’ will be held in The Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT)’s Atrium Building, room A019. Andrew Power and Dr. Gráinne Kirwan will present. The lecture...
Google+ opens Pages to book businesses
Google is now trying to attract businesses to its fledgling social network Google+ by launching Google+ Pages. It is described by Google simply as “a way for organisations and businesses to connect with customers and fans”. Google has already succeeded in getting big star names like Burberry, O2, Angry Birds, Chelsea Football Club, Barcelona Football...
Microsoft named ‘best company to work for’
Are you happy in work? Many people, it seems, are, and digital companies appear to be the best places to work. Microsoft, which employs over 1,000 people in Ireland, was named the number one global workplace at an awards ceremony at the New York Stock Exchange last night. Great Place to Work revealed its inaugural...
Charities ‘like’ social media more than private businesses
Charities are ahead of their private sector counterparts in utilising social media, with 90.6% of Irish non-profit organisations now using social media, compared to only 64% of businesses, according to new research*. 75% of Irish charities say they either “love” or “like” using social media, 72% report that social media has a positive impact on...
Ireland’s Facebook generation
A new survey has, unsurprisingly, discovered that Irish students spend a lot of time on social networks, Facebook in particular. According to the survey, 32% of third level students spend up to five hours a week on social networking sites while over 1 in 4 (26%) spend between six and ten hours a week. Facebook...
Netflix coming to Ireland
Netflix says it is entering the UK and Irish markets in early 2012. Netflix offers unlimited, streamed TV shows and films over the web to TVs and computers for a monthly subscription. Subscribers will be able to watch their favourite shows and films via any connected devise – PCs, Macs, tablets and phones. Netflix has...
