Tagged: Twitter & News
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Tourism Ireland launch competition to win a Twitter tour News
21.05.2012 Tourism Ireland’s British base has kicked off a new business tourism promotion offering senior executives a chance to win a tour of Ireland by Twitter. -
Is Microsoft’s new social network So.cl a direct attack on Google? News
21.05.2012 Microsoft has launched its own social network called So.cl. The new network appears to be more of a threat to Google+ than Facebook, featuring video parties to rival Hangouts,... -
Blacknight, Vodafone and more honoured at Social Media Awards 2012 News
18.05.2012 Vodafone Ireland scored a hat trick while Blacknight’s Michele Neylon put his company’s social media success down to a personable approach at the second annual Social Media Awards. -
Site to predict Facebook’s closing share price today News
18.05.2012 Facebook’s IPO is almost upon us, so a fun site has emerged for people to post what they think the social networking giant’s closing share price will be when the bell closes...Categories: Social Media, Investments -
The Fiscal Stability Treaty explained in 20 tweets News
18.05.2012 Still confused about Ireland's upcoming Fiscal Stability Treaty referendum? A new Twitter account might be able to help. -
Tech tweets of the week News
19.05.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Facebook Pages Manager app could be released soon News
17.05.2012 Facebook is testing a new Pages Manager app for iOS in select regions, while the rest of the world waits for a complete rollout. -
Google unhappy with report on Google+ user engagement News
16.05.2012 Google has challenged a report from RJ Metrics showing that Google+ user engagement is weaker than its counterparts, but a lack of transparency with user data leaves its claims... -
Facebook to increase size of IPO by 25pc, plans to raise US$15bn News
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... -
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey named ‘Media Person of the Year’ at Cannes News
15.05.2012 Twitter CEO and chairman Jack Dorsey has been named the Cannes Lions ‘Media Person of the Year'. Previous recipients of the award include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Euro 2012 app vies to be multimedia haven for football fans News
14.05.2012 With 25 days to go until the Euro 2012 football championships in Poland and Ukraine, Dutch company STEVE. Worldwide has tapped into football fever by creating an iPad app called... -
Sean Gallagher to break silence on ‘Twittergate’ scandal online News
14.05.2012 In a fitting way, former presidential candidate and former RTÉ 'dragon' Sean Gallagher has chosen the internet to be the medium through which he will break his silence on the... -
Yahoo!’s Scott Thompson steps down following CV gaffe News
14.05.2012 UPDATE - Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson has sensationally resigned from the post after just months in the job for “personal reasons.” The move comes just a week after a controversy... -
Tech tweets of the week News
12.05.2012 A compilation of this past week's Twitter messages - from the serious to the whimsical - from some top names in technology. -
Competition probe delays Facebook’s Instagram buyout News
11.05.2012 Facebook users might be left waiting quite some time before any Instagram features are implemented as an FTC investigation into the deal could take up to a year to complete. -
Microsoft gives Bing a social makeover – surely the rest will follow News
11.05.2012 Microsoft has made some significant changes to its Bing search engine that sees it finally add a social dimension through a long overdue (and deeper) integration with Facebook....Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Digital Media -
Obama’s same-sex marriage tweet gets a strong reaction News
10.05.2012 A tweet from US President Barack Obama about allowing same sex couples to marry has gone viral. -
Why are we compelled to divulge information on social media? News
09.05.2012 Ever wonder why some of your Facebook friends feel the need to drone on about what they have had for breakfast or like to ‘Check In’ at every available opportunity? Well... -
Mystery surrounds exposure of thousands of Twitter passwords News
09.05.2012 Twitter is understood to be investigating how 55,000 user passwords were published online yesterday.