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February 11, 2010

Google Buzz guarantees social media professional salaries for the next 12 months

Fintan Chevalier
Posted by : Fintan Chevalier
Filed under : Media, Tech & Web

Social media experts up and down the country today rejoiced at the launch of Google’s new social media product ‘Buzz’.
“We’ve had a mare of a Q1 so far” said Adele Staunton of leading Irish digital media agency Vapidit.ie
“Our portfolio of expertise was waning there for a short while. People had begun to unlock the deep, [...]


January 18, 2010

Haiti gives thanks as Facebook status changes bear fruit

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns
Filed under : Tech & Web, World News

The people of Haiti were today celebrating the first miracle of the new decade as a mass status change on Facebook instantaneously solved all the problems caused by last week’s devastating earthquake.
As shocked and badly wounded Haitians looked on in wonder, buildings reassembled themselves and rose skywards, services such as water and electricity began to [...]


October 2, 2008

Facebook to locate European HQ in Dublin

Arnold Corns
Posted by : Arnold Corns

Facebook has announced that it is to locate its European headquarters in Dublin. In an announcement on its home page they revealed that up to 14 jobs would be created in their landmark offices to be located in St Stephen’s Green.
The Irish Sentinel has learned that due to the economic downturn the government have decided [...]