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Looks like the Web Summit was doing quite well in Dublin
Back when the event’s organisers and the government were still friends, at least.
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Back when the event’s organisers and the government were still friends, at least.
There’s been some confusion about whether the Taoiseach had been invited.
Co-founder Paddy Cosgrave made the announcement the event was leaving Dublin today.
Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley will also appear at next month’s event.
The actress and angel investor will be speaking at the event, which is taking place in November.
‘Just rumours’ says the company.
The Summit’s website lists a number of past speakers who have dropped out of education such as Twitter’s Jack Dorsey or Tumblr’s David Karp.
The minimum grade requirement for job applicants is different depending where someone graduated.
Limerick-native Patrick Collison, founder and CEO of payments company Stripe, and the co-founder of Paypal, Max Levichin, will also speak at the event, now known as The Summit.
His three top tips: Encourage engineering courses in university, support start-ups better, develop talent.
“AOL missed the marketplace,” admits Tim Armstrong in Dublin but shares the lessons the company has learned.
But how does The Birdman do under a high dropping ball, Ger?
Your skateboard can’t help you here, T-Hawk.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny became the first person to ever ring the opening bell in Ireland.
A total of 10,000 people will be in attendance with venture capitalists looking to invest.
How much does it cost to bring football into disrepute on Twitter? And how do NAMA’s accounts look?
Ireland’s ‘knowledge economy’ is actually waiting to happen, writes Aaron McKenna.
Cindy Gallop founded the real-life sex video website to counter the myths of the porn industry – and revealed this morning that Irish people have been signing up in droves.
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.
Wael Ghonim tells Irish audience how he applied digital marketing strategies to Facebook campaign that helped spark uprising in Egypt last year.
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).
Múirne Laffan tells Dublin Web Summit that RTÉ need to “work together” with other media outlets as online become priority.
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
AOL’s Digital Prophet David Shing was speaking at the Dublin Web Summit today.
James Whelton has become the youngest ever social entrepreneur to be made a fellow of the Ashoka foundation.
Over 3,000 people are expected at the RDS for the Dublin Web Summit, thought to be worth €12m to the local economy.
Electric Ireland’s sponsoring a contest for start-ups at next month’s summit. Here’s some of the odder entries.
Cork teenager James Whelton set up CoderDojo to teach fellow students about computers – then watched it explode. He tells his story.
Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy wants to press his own government to support Irish tech start-ups – without attaching too many strings.
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?
Day one of the Dublin Web Summit brought some positivity to the capital as global tech leaders shared their wisdom.
Mikael Hed will join senior execs from LinkedIn, Facebook and YouTube at the second annual Dublin Web Summit.
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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.