14th of April 2009 by conor
Qik and MaxRoam. If you travel and if you like video, then you’ll be a very happy bunny this morning.
Cubic Telecom have just announced announced a partnership with Qik to bring massive savings to Qik users who love to stream video while travelling. The Qik SIM also provides big savings on voice calls, email, web browsing and texting while they travel. I love their tagline: ”Go mobile, not broke”.
9th of April 2009 by admin
According to IDA Ireland – “Big Fish Games, Inc., that the company is opening a European Headquarters at City Gate Business Park at Mahon in Cork City. Big Fish Games is the world's leading online destination for interactive entertainment, including downloadable, community and massively multi-player online games. The new office will focus on multilingual European customer support, games testing and localisation, and is expected to create up to 100 new jobs over the next three years. Recruitment is already underway for people with localisation skills and the capability to communicate effectively with its customers, particularly in French, German and Spanish.”
Positive news for Ireland – and for the community.
3rd of April 2009 by admin
The main Irish property site daft.ie has partnered with eBay.
Check out Irish Property
Maybe the start of more meaningful classifieds activity in Ireland by eBay…
2nd of April 2009 by admin
Irish gaming company Jolt Online [previously known as OMAC] have launched Legends of Zork
30 years after its first conception, Zork is back!
Dylan Collins, founder and CEO of Jolt had this to say in press release
We've designed LoZ to be as accessible as possible, hoping to appeal to both original Zork fans (and there's enough of them working on this that we should know what we're talking about), while also trying to bring in a whole new generation of players
1st of April 2009 by admin
We’re very excited to announce the launch of the Web2Ireland SeedFund I.
The fund seeks to
* invest in 30 to 40 seed stage startups
* average bite size of €100K
* able to lead, co-lead or follow other firms or angel syndicates
* focusing on consumer Internet and mobile
* capital efficiency, great teams, differentiated ideas and flexibility
* working hand in hand with the best VC firms in Europe and Silicon Valley
* An advisory board of leading Internet stars
* Address the market need !!
Stay tuned for more news 
25th of March 2009 by conor
The site goes live at 2pm today. It’s very simple, send IQContent a 5-page business plan that shows how your will turn your idea into a great online business.
The best submissions will be shortlisted and asked to present their business plans before a panel of independent judges.
The final winner will be announced at the end of June.
This bit is important:
We're not investors. We're not venture capitalists. We're not looking for equity and we don't want any intellectual property. There's no catch. There are no strings. Seriously.
All details on iqprize.ie. What are you waiting for, get your ass over there!
21st of March 2009 by conor
Martin Perez contacted us this week about a new site called Jobsket.ie in which he is involved. It’s an online service to host and value CVs/resumes.
The first half of it is that you upload a CV and they render it with a Flash viewer so you can send the URL to anyone without requring any desktop tool. You can also embed a widget with a thumbnail of your CV on your blog or website.
The twist is that they also value the CVs. Their application connects to several job sources and extracts information about salaries on the jobs market. They combine that information with the information available in people’s CVs so that they can give an estimate of the market-value of any given CV. This also enables them to extract trends on the jobs market such as “does a Java programmer earn more than a Python programmer?”.
They are in Beta invite-mode at the moment and you can add your email address over on the site if you’d like to try it out.
20th of March 2009 by admin
Finalists Announced from Dublin Workshop : Innovate!Europe.
These eleven companies will now advance to the Master Class, to be held in Zaragoza, Spain May 4-6. Congratulations go to:
Byte Surgery/Decisions for Heroes tools to enable emergency rescue personnel and volunteers to collect and analyze data at emergency scenes
Emergence SaaS application that provides real-time risk management across a range of corporate business functions
iFoods Ltd/LookandTaste.com professionally-produced and user-generated digital video library of recipes; online video glossary of food and kitchen terms
IGoPeople software that socially connects consumers and businesses to better build brands and enable consumer involvement in marketing
Locle location-aware social networking tools to identify people and places on mobile devices
LouderVoice SaaS application that enables customers to review products and provide feedback on business sites
PutPlace cloud storage platform for consumer PC- and Web-based digital media and information
Revahealth online directory of health clinics, providing a detailed and normalized view of services and medical personnel
Sentry Wireless security for mobile phone devices by providing a firewall on a SIM card. First product is a service that insures the privacy and safety of children when using mobile phones
Toddle provides easy-to-create email marketing campaigns for small businesses, leveraging the tools with which customers are already familiar: Outlook and a browser
TouristR interactive online travel planner that allows users to plan, book and share their travel with an innovative search tool
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Now Innovate!Europe are looking for other Europe's top startup – and the deadline to apply is March 23rd.
Innovate!Europe will be hosting Going Global workshops and networking meetups in Europe and Israel from March 30th – April 8th – check calendar
Start-ups will receive mentoring and feedback from Guidewire Group's renowned analyst team on how to improve your pitch and hone the skills you need to compete in fast-paced markets like Silicon Valley.
Best of all, there is no cost to apply or to participate in the Going Global workshops.
Start-ups in the workshops held so far have raved about the experience. Conor O'Neill of LouderVoice, called it pure gold and said it was the most impressive start-up workshop I have ever encountered.
If you want to participate in the competition but can¹t attend one of the workshops, fill out the form anyway.
If you’re selected, Guidewire Group’s analysts will conduct a phone interview with you.
Note: You don't need to be a workshop participant to attend one of the networking meetups. The meetups are also open to investors, journalists and other members of the entrepreneurial community. However, an RSVP is required as space is limited.
12th of March 2009 by admin
Iona Technologies founders Chris Horn and Sean Baker, Norkom founder, Paul Kerley and entrepreneur, Brian Caulfield – have joined up with Marrakech founder, Kelly Murphy in a new stealth startups – called Gridstore.
The company is developing next-generation data storage system. Check recent SBPost article .
[limited info available - feel free to send comments]
12th of March 2009 by admin
Mike from Techrunch did an interview with Eoghan from Contrast at recent FOWA Dublin
Interview: Contrast – the guys behind Qwitter who have global ambitions.
