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- Smartbox to create 70 jobs at international centre in DublinThu, May 24, 2012GIFT VOUCHER firm Smartbox is to set up a new international centre in Dublin which could create up to 70 jobs at the firm.
- Facebook sued by shareholdersThu, May 24, 2012Facebook and banks including Morgan Stanley are being sued by the social networking leader’s shareholders, who claim the defendants hid Facebook’s weakened growth forecasts ahead of its initial public offering (IPO).
- Is it possible to chat to a computer?
Thu, May 24, 2012YOUR HORSE IS stuck in a ditch. You’ve tried luring it out with a sugar lump, but it’s not budging. Whipping out the smartphone, thumbs shaking, you Google “Annie”, the RSPCA’s virtual assistant. Reassured, you see Annie has handled this sort of thing before. - 'These students aren't learning science - they are scientists'
Thu, May 24, 2012At an Intel science fair held in Pittsburgh last week, 1,500 of the brightest young minds from all over the world demonstrated that world-beating ingenuity is not the sole preserve of the experts - Web Log
Thu, May 24, 2012By
MARIE BORAN - Sky's the target of new UPC service
Thu, May 24, 2012THE INVITATIONS are in the post. UPC has this week sent information on its new on-demand television service to 200,000 customers, inviting them to sit back on their sofas with a bowl of popcorn, press the “on demand” button on their remote controls and not emerge from their living rooms until winter. - Demise of analogue creates a problem for digital 'black spots'Thu, May 24, 2012“D-DAY” FOR analogue television services is now five months away and TDs representing areas in west Cork cursed with digital terrestrial television “black spots” are taking up the cause of constituents facing either a snowy screen or the €300 purchase of a satellite dish.
- High Court approves Eircom survival planWed, May 23, 2012A FIVE-YEAR survival scheme for Eircom approved by the High Court will see it and related companies exit the State’s biggest examinership on June 11th next.
- Music firms' challenge over 'three strikes' deal beginsWed, May 23, 2012A CHALLENGE by four music companies to a notice of the Data Protection Commissioner which they fear will effectively unwind their “three strikes and you’re out” agreement with Eircom aimed at combating the widespread illegal downloading of music has opened before the Commercial Court.
- Now for another billion-dollar question - did Mr and Mrs Zuckerberg sign a pre-nup?
Wed, May 23, 2012The fascination with Facebook and the billions it is generating continues – this time, the focus is on the Zuckerberg nuptials - Facebook pulls off third biggest initial float in historySat, May 19, 2012FACEBOOK BEGAN trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday morning, in the third-biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history.
- Facebook offering 25% biggerThu, May 17, 2012SOME OF Facebook’s earliest backers plan to sell an additional $3 billion worth of shares in today’s initial public offering.
- What will you do next Mr Zuckerberg?
Thu, May 17, 2012Facebook has spread its tendrils far, wide and deep throughout the internet, and this connectedness has given the social network the power to become a €100 billion company. The question is: what does it do next, asks
SOMINI SENGUPTA - New service allows links to local councilsThu, May 17, 2012THE COMPANY behind RateMy Area.comhas launched a new service, which allows users to raise issues with local councils via their smartphone.
- Keeping your children safe through their mobile phonesThu, May 17, 2012AN IRISH-based firm has unveiled new software aimed at keeping children safe on their mobile phones.
- Serial entrepreneur creates online venue for most ambitious venture
Thu, May 17, 2012 START-UP NATION/Online venue VenueOne: Live-streaming website VenueOne gives its users access to gigs along with interactive online engagements with bands and other users in real time, writes
FIONA REDDAN - Digital forum to focus on online privacy concernsThu, May 17, 2012Data protection commissioner Billy Hawkes will take part in the next Digital Rights Forum, which will deal with online privacy.
- Web LogThu, May 17, 2012Compiled by
MARIE BORAN
- Facebook increases its IPO share price rangeWed, May 16, 2012FACEBOOK HAS increased the price range for shares in its initial public offering, pushing the company’s valuation to as much as $104 billion.
- Meteor posts pretax losses of €146mTue, May 15, 2012EIRCOM’S MOBILE subsidiary Meteor recorded pretax losses last year of €146.6 million after booking an impairment charge of €112 million.
