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Former Simply Zesty CEO to head up Digital Marketing Institute News
19.06.2013 The former CEO of Simply Zesty Ken Fitzpatrick is to head up the rapidly expanding Digital Marketing Institute as CEO. -
Digital Hub CEO: digital competency needs to be pervasive across EU News
18.06.2013 Every country in Europe needs to ensure that digital competency is all-pervasive, the chief executive of the Digital Hub in Dublin told a gathering of the heads of eight...Categories: R&D, Life Sciences, Leadership & Management, Internet, Government, Education, Economy, eCommerce, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
€500k search for world’s top start-up to begin in Dublin News
18.06.2013 Tech start-ups will have the chance to pitch in front of some of the world's top tech investors at PITCH, a new €500,000 search for the world’s top start-up at the Dublin Web... -
Interview: Commissioner Neelie Kroes on driving Europe’s Digital Agenda News
18.06.2013 As Europe’s digital leaders gather in Dublin this week for the final, and largest, event of the Irish Presidency of the EU, the Digital Agenda Assembly, Ann O’Dea speaks to...Categories: Telecommunications, Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Government, Funding, Communications -
3,000 hires generated in Ireland’s booming digital media sector News
17.06.2013 In the past year digital media companies based in Ireland hired 3,000 people with the majority of the hires by large multinational internet and e-commerce firms, a study by... -
Europe’s digital clusters to gather in Dublin this week News
17.06.2013 Eight digital clusters from around Europe, including Dublin’s Digital Hub, are to gather in the Digital Depot this Tuesday. The gathering precedes the European Digital Agenda... -
The social good: an interview with Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s News
13.06.2013 In 1978 in rural Vermont in the United States, Jerry Greenfield and Ben Cohen founded an ice cream brand that has resonated around the world chiefly thanks to their ethic of... -
CoderDojo named cream of the crop in Ben & Jerry’s social entrepreneur competition News
13.06.2013 Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield and a panel of leading business minds have named CoderDojo as winner of the Irish leg of the Join Our Core social entrepreneur...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Leadership & Management, Education, Economy -
Xtra-vision is saved: receivers sell business to Hilco Capital News
11.06.2013 High-street video and gaming rental and retail firm Xtra-vision has been saved after its receivers Ernst & Young completed the sale of the business and its assets to a number of... -
Financial results this week News
10.06.2013 Technology companies scheduled to release their financial results this week. -
OPINION: Embracing the challenge of becoming an excellent CIO News
08.06.2013 Trinity College Dublin’s Professor Joe McDonagh says excellent CIOs focus their energy and resources on achieving purposeful change over time. -
UPC Ireland CEO named new COO of Virgin Media News
04.06.2013 Dana Strong, the chief executive of UPC Ireland who oversaw the cable telecoms player surpass the 1m broadband customer milestone, has been named the new chief operations... -
it@cork’s Dealstart initiative engages multinationals with start-ups News
04.06.2013 The it@cork European Tech Cluster has revealed the first initiative from its Upstart programme called Dealstart which brings together large multinationals with start-ups to... -
Zynga to lay off 18pc of workforce – restructuring to focus on mobile and multiplayer News
04.06.2013 Farmville creator Zynga is to lay off 18pc of its workforce – approximately 520 people – as part of a dramatic restructure to transform the company from a web company into more... -
Enterprise Ireland’s new strategy to tap into multi-billion euro emerging markets News
01.06.2013 Enterprise Ireland has established a new clustering programme aimed at ensuring Irish firms target the billions of euros worth of opportunities in emerging markets, particularly...Categories: Upskilling, Training, Leadership & Management, Economy, Digital Business, Consultant, Business Intelligence -
CoderDojo and MyMind in final line-up for Ben & Jerry’s entrepreneur search News
30.05.2013 CoderDojo and MyMind are among 18 social entrepreneur businesses from around Europe that have made the final cut of the Ben & Jerry’s Join Our Core 2013 search for the most... -
Ireland rises up the ranks in global competitiveness News
30.05.2013 Ireland has risen three places to become 17th in the world for overall competitiveness, according to the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. -
Apple CEO Tim Cook: ‘We have no special deal with the Irish Government’ News
29.05.2013 The CEO of Apple Tim Cook told the All Things Digital D10 conference last night that the company has no special tax deal in place with the Irish Government. The issue rose up in... -
22pc of UK shops to close by 2018 as more punters do their shopping online News
28.05.2013 Total store numbers in the UK will fall by 22pc from 281,930 today to 220,000 in 2018 due to a seismic shift in shopping trends as consumer opt to go online. Eventually online... -
Rails Girls Galway’s coding workshop narrows IT gender gap News
27.05.2013 Galway’s deputy mayor and a chief organiser of Rails Girls Galway have stressed the importance of initiatives that teach women how to code, and it seems women are listening: a...