The body that represents Ireland’s major newspapers says a charity group’s website should pay substantial licensing fees for simply linking to its members’ content — and it is also lobbying to have the country’s copyright laws define the simple act of linking as copyright infringement. Read more »
A data visualisation web app, GetBulb, wins a €50,000 loan note from DFJ Esprit in The Irish Times’ Digital Challenge. But what did the publisher learn from working with start-ups? Read more »
What can a 153-year-old news publisher teach five tech startups? Digital expertise may flow both ways as Ireland’s newspaper of record offers desk space and funding to new companies whose products it hopes to adopt. Read more »
Netflix has vowed to re-animate its on-hold global ambitions by launching further into Europe this coming Q4, after it spent slightly less than expected on its UK and Ireland launch this January. Read more »
Facebook is giving users the chance to download more of the information that it holds about them than ever before, but the small group of Austrian law students who forced the change say the social network is still holding back. Read more »
Netflix put the finishing touches on mobile-device rollouts in the regions it’s aggressively expanding into. The company announced Wednesday that its streaming video service is now available on Windows Phone in Latin America, the U.K. and Ireland. Read more »
Two of the subscription-music space’s main players are set to launch in several new markets, as the segment’s many budding exponents race to… Read more »
Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) rival Populis is continuing to build up its non-English blog network and publishing business through acquisition, t… Read more »
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more »
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more »
Facebook is no stranger to accusations about how it treats users’ privacy — something that has come under increased public scrutiny in the… Read more »
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire today is only on sale in the U.S., but according to one report that Fire could be spreading to the UK as soon as Januar… Read more »
As the Black Friday shopping opportunities continue to pile up, the mentions of mobile payment services get ever more frequent, too: in just… Read more »
Big funding round for the digital content subscription and billing specialist Zuora: the company has raised $36 million in a Series D round… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is picking up some more momentum for its UK and Ireland launch, scheduled for early next year. The streaming video comp… Read more »
Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is laying some content groundwork for its launch in the UK and Ireland, expected in early 2012: today it announced a de… Read more »
A new twist today in the battle of media companies trying to stop their content from being distributed by illegal means online: the UK’s mai… Read more »
Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making ne… Read more »
New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” an… Read more »
Here’s an acquisition that has come unexpectedly, but not surprisingly: BlackBerry and PlayBook maker RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has bought New Bay, a… Read more »
After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
The rise of smartphones has meant a big boost in data use and data revenues, but in many cases that is still not offsetting declines for mob… Read more »
The idea of social networks as a place to listen to and share music is one that MySpace (NSDQ: NWS) should have owned. But its gradual decli… Read more »
– Turner Broadcasting: The company has confirmed that Anthony Lukom is VP and GM of UK and Ireland for Turner in Europe. He will lead the b… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: Google’s Android in-app payments service gets some early users — and maybe some confus… Read more »
Despite the big stories about the iPad 2 selling out in the U.S., and the question marks over how events in Japan might affect consumer elec… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has purchased Green Parrot Pictures, a small Irish company that has built video quality technology used in big films, su… Read more »
Sony (NYSE: SNE) subscription service Music Unlimited launched in the United States, New Zealand and Australia on Thursday, entering a compe… Read more »
– Apple: The App Store hit its ten-billionth download on January 22. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had turned the occasion into a contest, with an $10… Read more »
– HP: Has EVP of HP’s mobile business Todd Bradley confirmed that HP (NYSE: HPQ) will be launching, at a press event in February, a tablet… Read more »
Not great news around the holidays, but at least some of the consultations won’t begin until January: UK mobile operators O2 and Everything… Read more »
A new industry conflab for tech execs was inaugurated at the Dublin Web Summit on Saturday. The Founders gathering assembled startup co-founders including Skype’s Niklas Zennstrom, YouTube’s Chad Hurley, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Bebo’s Michael Birch. Judging from coverage, there’s a new optimism that Ireland, which […] Read more »
Buddy Media, which scored a $23 million funding round earlier this month, has raised an additional $5 million from WPP Digital. The investme… Read more »
January-to-June newspaper circulation in the Republic of Ireland fell to 1,494,062, from last year’s 1,551,930, according to new *ABC* figur… Read more »
– Irish piracy: So much for lengthy legislation. The informal graduated-response scheme operated in Ireland, after Eircom agreed to music l… Read more »
Commercial news publishers’ chagrin at publicly-funded news websites is not limited to the BBC. In Ireland, the top 18 newspapers are due to… Read more »
