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Billfaster secures €330,000 investment
Billfaster, a start-up based at the Media Cube in Dun Laoghaire, recently secured €330,000 (including an Enterprise Ireland contribution) through the High Potential Startup Program (HPSU). Billfaster provides an online solution to SMEs to more effectively manage invoicing and cash flow. The investment will allow Billfaster to scale its global business. It currently has over...
Group gift card utilises social media
One4all, the multi-store gift card, claims to be the first in Europe to launch a group gifting platform which uses social media to allow family and friends ‘chip-in’ for Christmas gifts online. The new feature alows users to ‘club together’ for gift cards and make payments online, while inviting friends to contribute their share through...
The era of the Facebook app is gathering pace
Most people will know what a mobile (or native) app is. However, not many know what a Facebook app is. When Mark Zuckerberg announced Facebook’s Open Graph in September, he said this: “We think this [Open Graph] is going to make it possible to build a completely new class of apps that wasn’t possible before.”...
How to get a job with Facebook – start a company like Gowalla
First we read on Twitter that Facebook had ‘bought’ Gowalla, the location service. Next we read that Facebook had bought Gowalla and then shut it down. Then we heard that Facebook probably didn’t ‘buy’ anything, they just ‘pretty much’ hired Gowalla’s co-founders – Josh Williams and Scott Raymond. Nothing was said about the people who...
Opera Mini who? The battle of the mobile browsers gathers pace
Most people browsing the web just want a good browser. They don’t really care who owns it. Last week we reported that Chrome has overtaken Firefox to become the world’s second favorite (or most-used) browser. ‘So what?’, most people would shrug. But it’s a big business, and you can read more about how browsers make...
Muck Rack – it’s like cat nip for PR professionals
If you work in PR, and aren’t on Twitter then you really need to consider changing career. Buy a sweet shop perhaps? Twitter has proven to be one of the most invaluable tools available to journalists, PR people and communications professionals of all shades. If you’re going to hear about something first, you will hear...
New social network for Irish language users
Here’s something for fans and students of the Irish language – Abair Leat! is a new social network dedicated to Gaeilge. The network is currently calling on anyone with an interest in the Irish language or interested in learning Irish to become beta testers. The aim of the network is to transform learners into users....
Want to do better in exams? There’s an app for that
A new iPhone app – created by 25 year old Irishman, Cormac Moore – aims to help second and third level students perform better in exams. Moore, a published researcher in the area of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – the study of successful thinking patterns of outstanding individuals – developed the Headcase app with the...
Chrome overtakes Firefox for the first time
Google’s browser Chrome overtook Firefox for the first time globally on a monthly basis in November, according to StatCounter, the website analytics company. StatCounter Global Stats shows that Chrome took 25.69% of the worldwide market (up from 4.66% in November 2009) compared to Firefox’s 25.23%. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still maintains a strong lead globally with...
DRG launches real-time ad solution – Admarket.ie
Digital Reach Group (DRG) has launched a new, real-time mobile and web advertising solution. Admarket.ie is a real-time bidding service that allows advertising to be purchased and served on the fly. Advertisers can bid on ad impressions as they are served rather than buying bulk ad impressions by category. This “brings a highly targeted approach...
10 iPad apps to unwrap this Christmas
You may wake up on Christmas morning and be handed a pair of socks, or you could be lucky and find a spanking new iPad 2 under the tree. If you’re one of the lucky ones you’ll want to start using the iPad immediately and the best way to do this is to download some...
A new era for online video
The way people consume video is changing and changing fast. New research by Marc Gosschalk, a senior analyst with comScore, suggests 1.2 billion people worldwide watched on average 18 hours of online video each in October 2011. Russia (43.1 million unique viewers), Germany (42.7m) and France (36.6m) lead the way in Europe in terms of...
