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Online merchants to look to social network identity to eliminate fraud News
12.02.2013 Very soon online merchants will be using shoppers’ Facebook or Twitter identities as a way to boost sales and reduce fraud. -
Twitter’s new e-commerce adventure – ‘tweet to buy’ deal signed with Amex News
12.02.2013 Twitter isn’t just thinking of monetisation through digital marketing, it has its eye on e-commerce payments. The microblogging service has embarked on a new social commerce... -
Domain registrar claims 14pc increase in Irish businesses going online News
07.02.2013 Web domain registrar Register365 has reported a 14pc increase in the registration of domains since 2010, which it says is a positive indicator of growth in Ireland’s online...Tags: domain names, E-commerce -
Half of new retail customer IDs will be based on social network IDs by 2015 - Gartner News
07.02.2013 Imagine a world where personal information from social profiles can be imported to other sites requiring users to log in, therefore reducing users’ need to remember passwords... -
Amazon’s fourth-quarter sales rise 22pc but profit drops 45pc News
30.01.2013 Robust sales during the holiday period pumped e-commerce giant Amazon’s fourth-quarter revenue up 22pc to US$21.17bn from US$17.43bn a year earlier. However, profit for the... -
10 new Cork-based start-ups launch at New Frontiers awards News
29.01.2013 Ten new ventures that have completed the latest Enterprise Ireland-led New Frontiers programme at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) showcased their innovations at an awards... -
Irish IT industry could scale five times its current size – it@cork chairman News
29.01.2013 Ireland’s IT industry hasn’t reached its full potential and could yet grow to five times its size, the chairman of it@cork Denis Collins says. -
Tech start-up of the week: MySmark News
20.01.2013 Our tech start-up of the week is MySmark, a start-up conceived in Italy and incubated in Ireland. It has developed an online tool that lets consumers express how they feel; it... -
15 companies to benefit from latest €750k Competitive Start Fund News
17.01.2013 Enterprise Ireland has launched the latest phase of its Competitive Start Fund with €750,000 available to up to 15 start-ups. So far, 60 companies have been funded under the... -
eBay’s revenue jumps 18pc to US$4bn in fourth quarter News
17.01.2013 Fourth-quarter revenue for online auction giant eBay jumped 18pc to US$4bn compared to the same period in 2011 as its PayPal and Marketplace units also showed strong performance... -
Lockerz closes San Diego office, makes cuts to HQ staff in Seattle News
16.01.2013 Social commerce website Lockerz has shut down its San Diego, California, office and cut about 30pc of staff from its head office in Seattle headquarters in an effort to...Tags: Layoffs, Social Commerce -
CoderDojo co-founder Bill Liao joins SunZu The Art of Business News
15.01.2013 SOSventures investing partner and co-founder of CoderDojo Bill Liao has been appointed director of SunZu The Art of Business, a new Dublin-based social platform started up by...Categories: Social Media, Online Business, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Digital Business -
ISP Airfibre invests in Dublin data centre space to boost colo services News
15.01.2013 Business-to-business ISP Airfibre has invested in spare data centre capacity from a number of data centre providers around Dublin and says it plans to acquire further rack space... -
Amazon's AutoRip music service is a clever ploy to migrate more music lovers to the cloud News
11.01.2013 In a blend of technological nous and savvy online marketing, Amazon has turbo-charged its CD business with a new service called AutoRip that gives music buyers free MP3 versions...Tags: Amazon, Music, Cloud Computing, Kindle, Kindle Fire, iPhone, Android, iPod, Smartphones, Tablet Computers -
Europe’s best tech start-ups: Europas shortlist published News
09.01.2013 The shortlist of nominees for the forthcoming Europas start-up awards in Berlin on 22 January has been revealed and more than 1,000 nominees have been put through the judging...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Online Business, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business -
Play.com to shutter direct retail business, marketplace will remain News
09.01.2013 The UK government closed a VAT loophole that was costing the country’s exchequer millions last year, and this has led online retailer Play.com to decide to shut down its direct...Categories: Online Business, eCommerceTags: E-commerce, -
OPINION: You lead data, it doesn’t lead you News
02.01.2013 The wealth of analytical data which digital marketers have access to empowers us to make really good communication decisions. However, we must never slavishly respond to the...Categories: Web, Social Media, Online Business, Internet, Digital Marketing, Data Management, Business Intelligence -
IT professionals fear loss of control when it comes to cloud computing News
21.12.2012 IT professionals are still being deterred by the perceived risks of cloud computing with loss of control one of their biggest worries, a global study of 4,500 IT professionals... -
Irish entrepreneurs generated 12,600 new jobs in the past 12 months News
20.12.2012 Entrepreneurs among Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Alumini were responsible for creating 12,600 new jobs in the past year and collectively these entrepreneurs employ...Categories: Software & Web Development, Online Business, Investments, Funding, Financial, Enterprise, Economy, Digital Business -
Return shipping charges turn off would-be repeat online customers - survey News
14.12.2012 Retailers who charge their customers for return shipping might as well bid them adieu for good, as most of them are unlikely to buy from those retailers again, a new survey...