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Profitero Win SmartCamp Final!

Media Cube Resident Profitero was announced the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year at the IBM SmartCamp Global Finals in San Francisco, California on February 2. Profitero beat off strong competition from around the globe to win the title. IBM SmartCamps are designed to provide entrepreneurs with the mentoring and insight needed to innovate in [...]

Profitero represents Ireland in San Francisco!

Mediacube-based competitor pricing intelligence firm Profitero will travel to San Francisco to take part in the 2012 IBM SmartCamp Global Final from January 30 to February 2. Profitero will represent the UK and Ireland in the competition. IBM SmartCamps bring together innovative entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, academics and other industry leaders to provide coaching and [...]

Congratulations to Billfaster!!

Billfaster, a media cube company has this week raised €330,000 in funding including an Enterprise Ireland contribution through the High-Potential Start-up (HPSU) programme. Billfaster’s headquarters are in the Media Cube, Dún Laoghaire, where it is currently participating in the Create programme for start-ups. 
It also has a base in New York City. Billfaster also says [...]

Congratulations to Profitero!!!

In one week, Profitero, a high performance start-up company based in the Media Cube, IADT has raised a €750,000 in a funding round led by the Bank of Ireland Start-up and Emerging Sectors Equity Fund, managed by Delta Partners, and Enterprise Ireland and has also won the 2011 IBM Smartcamp Competition! Profitero has developed a [...]

The Mad Cows are Coming!!

The Mad Cows, the fifteen part animation series created by Keg Kartoonz will be broadcast by RTE2 TV starting 7th November 2011. The brainchild of Michael Algar (producer), Noel Kelly (writer and director) and Adrian Mulvey (executive producer), this animated series opens on a night where a group of grazing cattle get struck by lightning. [...]

Blackrock Animation Festival 2011 launched!

The Blackrock Animation Festival 2011 was launched with a call for entries at the Media Cube, IADT. Details and rules for entry can be found at http://iloveblackrock.ie/animation-festival Organised by the Blackrock Business Network and supported by the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Design and Technology (IADT), the Festival will include screenings and award presentations for winning [...]

Profitero now targetting Irish online retailers!

Profitero, based in Media Cube, the only digital media campus based incubation centre in the country, has put giant retailers such as Asda, Tesco, Amazon, Argos and Dixons Media company on the alert by releasing an infographic based on their research of 17,697 prices from online retailers that were collected across the UK. Now they [...]

Business Winners 2011

PROFITERO WIN AGAIN Profitero, the digital retail analysis company, who offer a competitor monitoring service for on-line retailers have today won the Innovation Cubed 2010 competition held by the business centre, Media Cube in Dun Laoghaire. This is their second win over the last year, having already won a Seedcamp New Business Funding Award in [...]

Support for Digital Media Companies Needed

The digital media and software incubation centre, Media Cube, based at Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), is offering free office space worth €7,500 for one lucky and talented company via its Innovation Cubed competition. This is the second year in a row that the centre has run such an event focused [...]

Bgate shortlisted for Procurement Award

Bgate, the procurement software company based at the Media Cube has been shortlisted for the 2010 Procurement Awards in the Excellence in Private Procurement SME category. Bgate has already won the Systems Integration Company of the Year Award at the ICT Excellence Awards 2010 for its order-capture and invoicing system. The Bgate software is called [...]