Category Archives: Social Media

Ubecha.com chases fantasy sports players

While the app gold rush has been well noted by the media, the next big thing for developers has always been social gaming. Online social gaming and fantasy sports gaming is valued in excess of $2.5bn in the US and in the UK the Barclay’s Premier League alone has 2.3 million players and the [...]
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Will promoted tweets make Twitter money?

Twitter is four years old and as yet hasn’t made much money. Not the best business plan you might imagine, however, it’s the potential that counts. Right? Twitter’s first move into the realm of ‘making money from advertising’ will come in the form of promoted tweets. Many companies already use Twitter as a communications platform and [...]
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Irish SMEs slowly adopting social media

Small and medium sized companies in Ireland are increasingly using social media and adopting social media marketing techniques but the pace of adoption remains quite low. According to a new survey carried out by the O2 Ideas Room, (23%) of senior SME executives are now members of a business/professional social media site. The most popular [...]
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The dawning of truly interactive TV?

The imminent arrival of the iPad doesn’t just have magazine and book publishers scrambling to create more interactive apps and iPad ‘versions’, the big TV companies are also looking to the device with money in their minds. Recent reports suggest many young people in digitally mature markets ‘co-browse’ i.e. they watch TV while interacting with social [...]
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LinkedIn confirms Dublin as its international HQ

LinkedIn has confirmed that it will set up its international headquarters in Dublin, joining other US digital giants like Facebook, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft. The social network for professionals now claims over 60 million members worldwide. It is only seven years old and was founded by Reid Hoffman, who previously worked as vice president of [...]
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