The Irish Times

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

Wed Jan 15 2020 - 12:22

Irish retail tech company Pointy purchased for $160m

Google takeout spells payday for founders and early-stage investors

Tue Jan 14 2020 - 14:32

Meet the Irish woman fighting to make the internet safer

Wild Geese: Rachel O’Connell has combated paedophiles and patrolled sensitive content

Fri Apr 26 2019 - 05:37

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

Thu Jul 12 2018 - 08:00

Retail tech firm Pointy set to double workforce to 50

Firm gives small retailers a way to make their stock visible online

Tue May 22 2018 - 19:05

Social entrepreneurship platform ChangeX raises €550,000

Platform backed by high-profile investors seeks more money as it launches new service

Wed Jun 28 2017 - 15:32

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

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 09:00

Homebrewing ‘robot’ aims to make beer-making smarter

Homebrewing is being dragged by Brewbot from its hiding place in airing cupboards and attics

Mon Aug 24 2015 - 07:00

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

Mon Jun 15 2015 - 01:45

Like Mark Zuckerberg, some tech titans are more generous than others

Charitable donation structure in Ireland needs an overhaul

Thu Oct 23 2014 - 01:00

Web Summit to hold Europe’s largest start-up competition

Technology conference signs sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola for Pitch competition

Tue Aug 26 2014 - 16:37

Bebo being sold back to founder for just $1m

Michael Birch had sold social networking site to tech giant AOL in 2008 for $850m

Tue Jul 02 2013 - 16:13

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

Mon Jul 01 2013 - 01:00