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Techies still read print
Print, it seems, still has influence, even in the digitized world of Irish technology executives. According to a new survey* 70% of executives in technology businesses read print journals at least once a month and nearly half (48%) read print journals at least once a week. Not surprisingly the most widely used source of technology...
Bitbuzz happy with progress and eyes UK market
Irish Wi-Fi firm Bitbuzz saw a 17% increase in revenue to €1.1 million in 2010 (€938,000 in 2009). The company had a total of 355,590 registered users by the end of December, a year-on-year increase of 65%. Its Wi-Fi hotspots around Ireland at the end of 2010 was 245, up from 204 at the end...
Sony Production Awards – winners announced
The winners of the Sony Production Awards 2010 have been announced. The awards were open to both broadcast professionals and students and entries had to be short films of up to three minutes based around the theme of ‘fusion’. The winning entry in the professional category was Steffen Zelmanski from Germany for his short animation...
Digital giants continue to devour the market
According to the latest eMarketer report on the US digital market, Google will continue to dominate search ads in the US despite the alliance of Microsoft’s Bing and Yahoo. The research firm predicts Google will gobble 75% of the $15 billion U.S. search-ad market, up from 71% last year. Microsoft will still increase its share...
Goldenpages.ie builds a new ‘find engine’
In a bid to claw back a portion of the market share it has lost to the search engines, goldenpages.ie has invested in a major overhaul to “guarantee richer and more relevant results”. The beta version of the new goldenpages.ie website is up with a new ‘find engine’. Why they didn’t call it a search...
Social media attracting more time and money from Irish marketing
Irish marketers understand that using social media carries with it major opportunities as well as risks. 79% of marketers [surveyed by AMAS] believe social media tools allow them to understand audiences better, 68% think they provide opportunities to make valuable connections and 46% see cost savings associated with marketing via social media channels. Marketers primarily...
UPC satisfied with broadband gains
“UPC Ireland finished the year strongly,” said Carol Grennan, CFO of UPC Ireland, regarding UPC’s end of year results. “So far over €450 million has been invested in our networks. In 2011 we plan to further enhance our broadband with even faster speeds. We ended the year with a 35% increase in broadband subscriptions with...
H+A MARKETING + PR buys Impact Media
H+A Marketing + PR has announced its acquisition of Impact Media. The combined business will employ 36 people, bringing together a portfolio of national and international clients, with a combined revenue of approximately €5 million. Impact Media will trade as a division of the newly expanded H+A. Headquartered in Cork, H+A Marketing + PR currently...
Bing is first engine to integrate Facebook ‘Likes’
And so it has come to pass. A major search engine (Bing) has integrated Facebook’s ‘liked results’ into its searches. Facebook already partners with Microsoft on a number of initiatives and Microsoft was an early investor in the budding social network. The fact Facebook ‘Likes’ are now fully integrated into Bing searches is the biggest...
Think Storyland and angels
Thinkhouse, the youth communications agency, has been commissioned by RTÉ to manage a social media campaign for the third installment of Storyland, RTÉ’s online drama series competition. The campaign will include Facebook content and outreach and a marketing mentoring programme for competition participants. From 120 entries, eight series have made it this far and over...
Zuckerberg the comic hero?
First there were the newspaper columns, next the documentaries, then the movie and eventually the comic. What, you may ask, took someone so long to create a comic based on Mark Zuckerberg? He is, after all, the Lord of the Geeks. Mark Zuckerberg: Creator of Facebook is the comic’s catchy title and it hits the...
A tsunami of mobile data to hit planet earth
Worldwide mobile data traffic will increase 26-fold during the period 2010-2015, says the Cisco Visual Networking Index. By 2015 it will reach 6.3 exabytes per month or an annual run rate of 75 exabytes. What’s an exabyte? (1 EB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 B = 1018 bytes = 1 billion gigabytes = 1 million terabytes). This tsunami...
