Pointy sale: How a Google reject built a $160m company and sold it to Google
Mark Cummins came up with the idea for Pointy while drinking a beer
Irish retail tech company Pointy purchased for $160m
Google takeout spells payday for founders and early-stage investors
Meet the Irish woman fighting to make the internet safer
Wild Geese: Rachel O’Connell has combated paedophiles and patrolled sensitive content
Pointy raises $12m in funding in drive to speed-up growth
Irish retail tech firm gives small retailers a new way to make their stock visible online
Retail tech firm Pointy set to double workforce to 50
Firm gives small retailers a way to make their stock visible online
Social entrepreneurship platform ChangeX raises €550,000
Platform backed by high-profile investors seeks more money as it launches new service
Bebo man: Founder of one-time rival to Facebook is still in start-up mode
Michael Birch and his wife, Xochi, sold Bebo for $850m. Now their latest platform, Blab, is beginning to take off
Homebrewing ‘robot’ aims to make beer-making smarter
Homebrewing is being dragged by Brewbot from its hiding place in airing cupboards and attics
Dublin start-up creates a website of all of your products in five minutes
Pointy is hoping to keep €3.6 billion in online sales in Ireland
Like Mark Zuckerberg, some tech titans are more generous than others
Charitable donation structure in Ireland needs an overhaul
Web Summit to hold Europe’s largest start-up competition
Technology conference signs sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola for Pitch competition
Bebo being sold back to founder for just $1m
Michael Birch had sold social networking site to tech giant AOL in 2008 for $850m
Take it for granted: how to get your hands on Government start-up funding
Ireland has plenty of money for start-ups which can get past the bureaucracy, say the authors of a new guide
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