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DoneDeal sells majority stake to Norwegian firm
DoneDeal has sold “just over 50 per cent” of its company to Norway’s Schibsted Media Group. No price was revealed, however, Schibsted now has a majority shareholding in an Irish firm with revenues of slightly more than €3 million in the fiscal year that ended 30 April, 2011. DoneDeal has seen a growth of 124...
StatCounter launches new features
StatCounter, which provides free website traffic analysis has upgraded its site. “The changes have been made in response to feedback and suggestions received,” says Aodhan Cullen, CEO. Amongst the new features, StatCounter has made it even easier for new members to sign up and check that they are properly installed. New features also include a...
Tablets pose risk to ‘corporate security’ and data breaches
Just over 20% of Irish companies are currently using tablet devices such as the iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. This is set to increase to more than one in three (34%) over the next 12 months. Online security firm BearingPoint, which commissioned a survey* into tablet use among Irish firms, believes there are implications for...
Smart devices, apps and mobile sites changing way people shop
New research by HP shows that the rate of technological change, driven by smartphones and tablet devices, is dramatically altering the way people in Europe shop. Over half of the top 50 European retailers use more than three channels to sell direct to consumers. However, shoppers’ ever increasing expectations for “seamless cross-channel shopping experiences” means...
Menupages.ie gets a real taste for daily deals
Menupages.ie’s entry into the deals market is proving successful. Launched four weeks ago, it has already filled over 3,500 seats in restaurants all over Ireland. It makes sense that specialist websites would enter into the ‘daily deals’ market. The bigger deal sites like Groupon and LivingSocial have a scatter gun approach, spraying their message to...
Biggest ever business exhibition outside of Dublin
The Mid-West Showcase, hosted by Dell Ireland at its Limerick Campus in Raheen Business Park, will be “the biggest ever business exhibition and seminar to be held outside of Dublin”. The exhibition and seminar will see 150 businesses exhibiting their products and services to an estimated 3,000 attendees at the event. The event will be...
The first MoMo Showcase Ireland
Mobile Monday (MoMo) Dublin and MoMo Belfast came together on September 19th at the Gibson Hotel, Dublin for the first MoMo Showcase Ireland. The event was an opportunity for professionals from across the mobile and mobile developer sectors to come together, share ideas and connect. Norbert Sagnard, one of the event organisers, said Showcase Ireland...
Top of the pile – easy as ABC for Done Deal
The Audit Bureau of Circulations has come out with figures widely trumpeted by the web-site DoneDeal.ie. The figures put them as the number one motor site in Ireland. The audit was carried out for the period March 1 to March 31, 2011 and appears to be the most recent data available. This now places the site...
Facebook won’t go public ‘until late 2012’
Facebook’s IPO won’t happen until at least late 2012 according to report in the FT that cites ‘people familiar with the company’. It had been expected that Facebook would go public in April 2012 and have an initial valuation of anything between $80-100 billion (a figure that has many seasoned analysts screaming about another tech...
Facebook’s aim to become largest marketplace on the web
Facebook’s top ecommerce platform, Payvment, has launched its latest version that “includes an array of new features designed to meet the needs of larger retailers, brands and agencies.” Payvment is integrating new features into two enhanced paid versions that will be available in late September: Payvment Premium and Payvment Platinum. Payvment’s free Facebook store will...
Facebook’s earnings double in first half of 2011
Facebook appears unstoppable at the moment. According to a new report from Reuters, the social network’s revenue for the first half of 2011 stands at $1.6 billion – double what it earned in the first half of 2010. While Facebook does not disclose its financial results, an insider told a Reuters reporter that Facebook’s net...
Channel Five develops Facebook app for Big Brother voting
Channel 5 and Endemol will use Facebook for the next Big Brother season as its voting platform. Significantly, voters will have to use Facebook Credits to vote. The broadcaster has developed a Facebook app that will run alongside the current series which it bought the rights to from Endemol earlier this year. The app will...
