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Mobile office offer from O2
O2 is offering a mobile start up business pack for SMEs, start ups, home workers, professionals and ‘road warriors’. It starts at €95 per month, includes a Samsung N150 Plus Netbook PC, mobile broadband including dongle, wireless connection plus all national mobile calls to Irish mobile and landlines as well as texts. The HP 625...
The Irish digital consumer
Cybercom, sponsors of The Sunday Business Post Digital Media & Marketing Summit on Wed 30th March in Croke Park, put together this handy infographic. It’s a good summary of how Irish consumers now use digital media. We are ‘hooked’ on social media it appears. Always on, always connected.
Simon Cumbers Media Fund announced
Details of the 2011 Simon Cumbers Media Fund have been announced. Journalists are invited to submit proposals for coverage of a development issue that will involve travel to a developing country. The deadline for the 2011 summer round of funding is Friday, 22nd April. Chairperson of the judging panel, Bob Collins, said, “There is still...
eightytwenty/interactive joins Havas
Irish digital agency, eightytwenty/interactive has joined Havas Worldwide’s global digital network 4D and will now be known as eightytwenty/4D. Clients of eightytwenty/4D include Bank of Ireland, Toyota, The Irish Times, Meteor, Colgate, RTÉ, Grafton Recruitment, Irish Distillers, FAI, Munster Rugby and Unilever. eightytwenty’s founders, David Connor and David O’Leary will continue to manage the business....
Irish workers are mobile and tech savvy
The majority of Irish workers (78%) now work outside the office each week. 38% say they are “much more” productive working outside of the office and 60% believe they are “just as” productive. Citrix Systems Ireland polled 100 workers for the survey and asked them a variety of questions relating to mobile working, the cloud...
Together forever, old media and new
Together Forever? Online and Traditional Media’ is the theme for IAB Europe’s Interact 2011 conference in Barcelona on 8th and 9th of June. Speakers will discuss and debate the success of combining traditional and online media. Russ Listone, CEO Euro RSCG London, will share details of Dulux’s award winning ‘Let’s colour’ campaign. Listone will talk...
Digital Mines gets cash to grow
Delta Partners has made its first investment of €350,000 into Digital Mines, a new Irish cloud computing service provider, from the Bank of Ireland start-up and Emerging Sectors equity fund. The funding is part of a total investment of €750,000 into Digital Mines that includes direct investment from Enterprise Ireland and the company’s existing shareholder....
Smart phone amnesty
Here’s a new marketing and sales idea from Sony Ericsson and The Carphone Warehouse – on Thursday 31st March 2011, consumers can trade in their old smartphones for a new Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY for less than half price. “Not only are they getting access to the handset first, but they are being given an...
The content becomes the ad
US clothing brand Dickies is well known amongst the hipster community – it’s urban, it’s edgy and it’s not A&F. The brand is also quite good at marketing itself and its latest marketing exercise comes in the form of an iPad app. As well as showcasing the brand’s 2010 Autumn/Winter collection it “features images by...
Facebook Deals will be group deals – you can bank on it
The much talked-about Facebook Deals will launch shortly. When Facebook announced its intentions to go into the ‘deals’ market, initial commentary focused on the social network’s ambition to take on daily deal digital giants like Groupon and LivingSocial. Now, however, it’s emerging that Facebook Deals will initially just concentrate on ‘social deals’ i.e. “things you...
Share new music with Shazam
Music discovery app Shazam has added a social layer as part of its latest update. ‘Shazam Friends’ (iOS available now with Android to come in a few weeks) lets users share discovered music with their Facebook friends and Twitter followers. Picture the scene – you’re sitting in a café and a really great song starts...
eBay.ie announces Ireland’s first Online Fashion Week
eBay.ie, along with some of Ireland’s fashion industry leaders will host Ireland’s first online fashion week. Taking place from Monday March 28th – Friday April 1st, eBay will host five daily online fashion talks. These live, interactive fashion events will be streamed on eBay’s Stylehunter page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/stylehunterireland. The fashion industry leaders will take...
