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Q1 revenue soars 89pc to US$559.3m for Groupon
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Irish woman co-founds social travel network in Sydney
15.05.2012 Operating around the philosophy of karma, the site is called mmMule
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Deals done this past week
14.05.2012 An overview of the week in deals in the Irish and global technology sector
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The digital business week
14.05.2012 A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.
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Financial results this week
14.05.2012 Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week.
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Eircom says no to €2bn Hutchison offer
11.05.2012 Eircom examiner rebuffs a second €2bn offer from Hutchison Whampoa
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Ireland named best place to invest in Western Europe
16.05.2012
Ireland has topped the list of the best places to invest in Western Europe, according to the annual Global Best-to-Invest Rankings compiled by international magazine Site Selection.
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GM pulls advertising from Facebook days ahead of IPO
16.05.2012
GM, one of the largest advertisers in the US, has decided to stop paying for display ads on Facebook, further highlighting weaknesses in the social network's advertising revenue generation.
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SSE to acquire NI's Phoenix Supply in stg£19.1m deal
16.05.2012
SSE is planning to acquire Northern Irish gas supplier Phoenix Supply in a deal worth stg£19.1m. The acquisition, if it goes ahead, will make Airtricity, SSE's retail supply brand, Northern Ireland's second-largest energy provider and the third-largest energy provider on the island of Ireland, the company claimed today.
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Dublin disaster recovery firm Network Recovery acquires Barlan
16.05.2012
Dublin-based cloud and disaster recovery firm Network Recovery, of which Digicel founder Denis O'Brien is a shareholder, has acquired the entire share capital of Barlan, an IT managed services and bespoke software provider, which had been based in Malahide up to now.
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Facebook to increase size of IPO by 25pc, plans to raise US$15bn
16.05.2012
Facebook is increasing the size of its IPO on Friday by 25pc and plans to raise US$15bn. Investor demand for shares has spurred the company into making the decision and shares are expected to debut in the US$35 to US$45 range.
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MBO at Maxima Ireland, becomes part of Zinopy
15.05.2012
Virtualisation and cloud computing firm Maxima Ireland's management team have led a management buyout of the company in a deal supported by security firm Zinopy. Maxima Ireland will trade under the Zinopy brand.
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The Facebook IPO: What could you buy? (infographic)
15.05.2012
The IPO of social networking giant Facebook this week is expected to pad the wallets of quite a few people, from U2 frontman Bono to the company's own employees.
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Q1 revenue soars 89pc to US$559.3m for Groupon
15.05.2012
Daily deals site Groupon experienced explosive growth in the first quarter of 2012, reporting an 89pc increase in revenue to US$559.3m and 36.9m active customers, a 140pc increase year-over-year.
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Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin gives up US citizenship
14.05.2012
Brazilian-born Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship in an effort to avoid paying US$600m in taxes.
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Deals done this past week
14.05.2012
An overview of the week in deals in the Irish and global technology sector.
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The digital business week
14.05.2012
A digest of the top business and technology news stories from the past week.
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Eircom Examiner rejects conditional offer for company
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Spotted at Apple’s European HQ – Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny
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Energia in €32m electricity contract with local authorities and state bodies
26.04.2012 Fifty-two Irish local authorities have moved to Energia, with the energy provider expecting to supply more than 180 gigawatt hours of electricity to power the local authorities’ public lighting systems in the coming year.
Govts need to heed growing interests of digital citizens - survey
26.04.2012 Nearly half (44pc) of citizens in seven countries believe interacting with their governments is easy, a new survey from Accenture suggests.
