Tech giants AOL, eBay, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Oracle contributed more than €5.3m to local community groups and charities in 2012, according to Business in the Community Ireland, which has compiled an online interactive ‘Business Impact Map’ of the activities of 46 socially minded Ireland-based companies.
National statistics show, that more than [...]

A lot of SME’s start out with an innovative idea which they hope will give them an opportunity for differentiation in the market place and subsequent business growth.
Whether it’s a new service idea or the redesign of an existing product, every successful innovation starts with a novel insight that changes the way we do things [...]

Daily deals site Groupon is coming to Ireland and is currently recruiting at least 30 people to work at a new international headquarters that will be located on St Stephens Green in Dublin’s city centre.
One of the fastest-growing internet companies with US$2bn in revenues shared with local businesses, jobs advertised on [...]

YouTube has now been around for eight years, having launched in May of 2005. Google acquired it the following year.
The company put up a blog post celebrating the landmark, thanking users, and sharing a few stats. The YouTube Team writes:
When YouTube’s site first launched in May 2005, we never could have imagined the endless [...]

We’re unlikely to see any major Google product come out of I/O without some kind of update, and Gmail is no exception, as the email service gets new quick action buttons to help users get things done fast.
Quick action buttons will appear next to certain messages in users’ inboxes, depending on their [...]

Eircom has gone live with the first phase of its €1.5bn fibre network which will deliver speeds up to 70Mbps to some 300,000 homes initially. By the time the network rollout is complete, it will reach more than 1.2m homes across Ireland.
Eircom is rolling out next-generation broadband systems that will bring [...]

Internet Explorer 10 offers better protection against malware hosted on websites than Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Opera, according to a new browser security study.
At 99.96 percent, IE10’s malware block rate outperformed Chrome’s (versions 25 and 26) block rate of 83.16 percent, according to a study by analyst firm NSS Labs.
The difference [...]

A new smartphone app called iGAAFan is aiming to enable GAA fans to interact with their teams at both county and club level. The Tyrone and Derry County Boards are currently trialling the app.
The free app has been developed by Wasp Solutions, a Belfast digital start-up that is directed by Karl Diamond, [...]

Facebook and Twitter have both become integral parts of many web users’ digital lives, whether they are accessed on the best ultrabook or the humble office PC, or even on smartphones and tablets.
Consequently, both social media sites are also vital in a business context, offering companies the opportunity to reach millions of potential [...]

(Reuters) - Google’s YouTube video service is dipping its toe into pay television by starting on Thursday a subscription service with 30 content creators, including children’s programmers Sesame Street and Muppet creator The Jim Henson Co, and the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
YouTube, the world’s largest video website, allows creators to set subscription fees and [...]