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Dublin Web Summit

# dublin-web-summit - Saturday 20 October, 2012

Cole, Cork-opoly and grocery shopping: The week in numbers

How much does it cost to bring football into disrepute on Twitter? And how do NAMA’s accounts look?

Aaron McKenna: We know Ireland has talent – why stop it from growing?

Ireland’s ‘knowledge economy’ is actually waiting to happen, writes Aaron McKenna.

# dublin-web-summit - Friday 19 October, 2012

From Business ETC Web Summit

Mozilla CEO says Google is a “frenemy”

Gary Kovacs says that while Mozilla, which created Firefox, gets most of its revenue from Google, the two companies are still eyeing each other carefully.

# dublin-web-summit - Thursday 18 October, 2012

Egyptian revolutionary: why online activism can work

Wael Ghonim tells Irish audience how he applied digital marketing strategies to Facebook campaign that helped spark uprising in Egypt last year.

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Web summit hears: Sex please, you’re Irish

Cindy Gallop, founder of Make Love Not Porn, wants Irish people to share their real-life sex videos to counter the myths of online porn (and to make some money while they’re at it).

From Business ETC Web Summit

Digital head wants “all of RTÉ” to convert to online

Múirne Laffan tells Dublin Web Summit that RTÉ need to “work together” with other media outlets as online become priority.

# dublin-web-summit - Wednesday 17 October, 2012

The Evening Fix… now with added superheroes

Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.

From Business ETC Web Summit

Smartphones the future of internet – and 10 other predictions

AOL’s Digital Prophet David Shing was speaking at the Dublin Web Summit today.

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Coder Dojo founder, aged 20, honoured at Web Summit

James Whelton has become the youngest ever social entrepreneur to be made a fellow of the Ashoka foundation.

From Business ETC Dublin Web Summit

Europe’s largest technology conference to begin in RDS today

Over 3,000 people are expected at the RDS for the Dublin Web Summit, thought to be worth €12m to the local economy.

# dublin-web-summit - Sunday 30 September, 2012

From Business ETC Startups

5 unusual startups pitching at the Dublin Web Summit

Electric Ireland’s sponsoring a contest for start-ups at next month’s summit. Here’s some of the odder entries.

# dublin-web-summit - Saturday 28 July, 2012

Column: How my school computer club turned into a worldwide movement

Cork teenager James Whelton set up CoderDojo to teach fellow students about computers – then watched it explode. He tells his story.

# dublin-web-summit - Saturday 7 January, 2012

From Business ETC Opinion

Column: We have the tech entrepreneurs – now we need to keep them here

Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy wants to press his own government to support Irish tech start-ups – without attaching too many strings.

# dublin-web-summit - Thursday 27 October, 2011

The Daily Fix: Thursday

In tonight’s Fix: Ireland goes to the polls, markets embrace the Greece deal, how much you’ll pay for an iPhone 4S, and just what DID cause Monday night’s flooding?

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Tech leaders land in the city for Dublin Web Summit

Day one of the Dublin Web Summit brought some positivity to the capital as global tech leaders shared their wisdom.

# dublin-web-summit - Wednesday 21 September, 2011

From Business ETC Social

Angry Birds CEO coming to Dublin for web summit

Mikael Hed will join senior execs from LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube at the second annual Dublin Web Summit.

# dublin-web-summit - Friday 10 June, 2011

Our story: TheJournal.ie’s Jennifer O’Connell at the Dublin Web Summit

Want to know how it all started? Watch our founding editor’s presentation on TheJournal.ie’s beginnings, the changing nature of news and where we are today.

# dublin-web-summit - Friday 27 May, 2011

From The Daily Edge Facebook

Did you have a pint with Mark Zuckerberg last night?

The Facebook founder is in Dublin to visit the company’s European HQ. He reportedly went for some drinks in the city last night, and may attend a Facebook-hosted Bell X1 gig tonight.

# dublin-web-summit - Monday 14 February, 2011

Take 5: Monday

Five things you need to know: No Valentine for Merkel from Enda, McWilliams regrets opening the door to Brian Lenihan (literally), and a dash to hospital for a Grammy reporter.