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Facebook looks to muscle in on Groupon
If you build a successful business, online or off-line, it probably won’t be long before Facebook sees an opportunity for itself. The social network’s latest copycat is a Groupon-like discount service within the online deals market. The service will start trialing in San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas, Atlanta, and Austin, Texas. It will form part...
Google Apps market is just one year old
Remember the days when Microsoft ruled the software world and Starbucks was just a small coffee house in Seattle? How far we have all come as we move towards Web 3.0, and it’s hard to imagine a web without great free software. This week (a year ago) Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace. This is...
St. Paddy’s g’Day
Tourism Ireland in Sydney has launched a St Patrick’s campaign on Facebook and Twitter, called ‘How Green Will You Go?’ along with a new app to help people ‘turn themselves green’. Last year, Tourism Ireland turned the Sydney Opera House green for the day. “We are taking every opportunity to exploit the unique opportunity that...
Twitter ups ante in battle against malware
Active Twitter users will have noticed an increase in unsolicited messages and links from unknown ‘followers’ in recent month. The links, invariably, lead to malicious software infection. Twitter, it seems, has had to up its war against malware* and other types of criminal activity. Online security company Barracuda Networks’ latest report shows that despite a...
Omnicom’s digital deals deliver precision
The advertising world has just become much more ‘accurate’. Global advertising firm Omnicom will now have access to consumer data supplied by Microsoft, Yahoo! And AOL. The planning arms of the ad firm, PHD and OMD, have gained the ability to deliver highly-targeted ad campaigns based on consumers’ gender, age and location. The new partnerships...
There’s an app search engine for that
Have you ever tried searching for a specific app? Pretty difficult isn’t it? Well, promised help is now at hand. Mobilewalla.com claims to be a ‘deep search and discovery engine’ for the highly fragmented app marketplace. The system currently allows a variety of searches across all apps available on Apple, Android, Blackberry and Windows 7...
Facebook’s extra vision
We know that Facebook has its own currency, most often ‘spent’ and traded in games like Farmville, and we know that the social network has ambitious plans to make it a traded currency in the ever-expanding Facebook market. Now film fans in the US will have the chance to rent Warner Bros. movies using Facebook...
One to watch – 10CMS
Here’s an interesting Irish tech firm – one that’s attracting investment cash like Charlie Sheen attracts Twitter followers. 10CMS recently secured €2.5m from UK-based Octopus Investments along with Sadlier Reilly Capital the company’s original seed investors and several high profile angel investors The company is attracting such attention because its product, a Commerce Content Management...
Suicide, friends and Facebook
Samaritans in the UK has worked with Facebook to create a new scheme allowing Facebook users to get help for a friend if they believe they are struggling to cope or feeling suicidal. People concerned about a friend will be able to tell Samaritans via Facebook’s Help Centre (facebook.com/help), where they can report specific content...
Sony buys Hawk-Eye
Sony has bought Hawk-Eye Ltd, a UK based company that specialises in providing tracking technology to sports events and broadcasters. While no money was mentioned, the purchase will play an integral role in Sony’s ambition to dominate the solutions market for sports stadia, venues and broadcasters. “We see strong opportunities on the technological, business and...
Ireland fifth most popular country on Facebook
Ireland is now the fifth most popular tourism destination in the world on Facebook. Australia leads the ‘most popular country on Facebook’ list with 1.4 million fans. New Zealand is next with 310,000, then Spain (280,000), Croatia (260,000) and then Ireland (250,000). Tourism Ireland actively uses social media to entice potential holidaymakers to come and...
Heystaks aims to lead new era of search
HeyStaks Technologies (www.heystaks.com), the NovaUCD social web-search start-up, has launched its initial products in the US market. The launch took place earlier this week at the annual DEMO Spring 2011 conference held in Palm Desert, California. The worldwide DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new product innovations. For 20 years DEMO has earned a...
