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Octopus New Media is a dynamic young agency that has a passion for creative design and the technical skills to deliver results. We work across a wide range of media skills, including print design, web design, branding, video production and motion graphics.
Some of our latest work includes:
A traveling exhibition for the Department of Foreign Affairs [...]

Congratulations to Warrior Films

Congratulations to Warrior Films, a “Graduate” company of the Cube whose co-production “The Pool” won the Runner up Prize at the Rushes Soho Film Festival.
Directed by Thomas Heffron, the Pool reveals slowly the actions and rivalries of a gang of boys while breaking in to a local swimming pool and whose internal rivalries spill [...]

Riverdeep co-founder’s new firm wins award

Bgate Technology, an emerging company based in Media Cube, the campus-based new business centre in Dún Laoghaire, has won the Systems Integration Company of the Year Award at the ICT Excellence Awards 2010 for its order-capture and invoicing system.
The brainchild of former Riverdeep technical director Simon Lunt, the Bgate software is called Smart Business [...]

Furious Tribe Starts App Revolution!

Furious Tribe unveils app builder for businesses
Dublin mobile app agency Furious Tribe has launched a new ‘App Builder’ platform to allow businesses to create apps and gain a share of the US$17.5bn mobile market.
Furious Tribe’s new ApptivateHQ platform will allow anyone to easily and inexpensively build mobile apps for their company or organisation.
While ApptivateHQ [...]

Furious Tribe wins three global mobile apps accounts

Media Cube company, Furious Tribe has been awarded the mobile app accounts for global brands Citibank, EMI Music and Royal Sun Alliance.
“The craze that we are witnessing among users of apps will have a huge impact on the way companies market themselves going forward,” explained Patrick Leddy, managing director of Furious Tribe.
“As more people [...]

Worldnet announces Ingenico Partnership

Media Cube Company WorldNet TPS have signed an agreement with Ingenico, the world’s leading provider of payment solutions, to promote WorldNet TPS online payment services to Ingenico Northern European customers.
This initiative will allow Ingenico customers and potential customers across Northern Europe reduce their card payment processing costs while implementing a secure PCI DSS approved online [...]

Sunday Tribune – Handyhardware see increase in sales of barbeque equipment!

Sunday Tribune Journalist Jennifer Bray reported that Online Tradesmen has seen a surge in barbecue sales.
“Sales of garden equipment and barbecues have jumped by a massive 25% in the last two weeks, as temperatures remained high last week.”
Ted Laverty, who runs online store Handyhardware.ie and supplies home and garden wares to a variety of stores, [...]

MEDIA CUBE COMPANY RECOGNISED BY TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL!

WARRIOR FILMS SECURE WORLD PREMIER SHOWING AT THE TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
“The Pool” co-produced by Media Cube-based Company, Warrior Films with Jumper Productions has been selected among six other Irish projects to screen at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
The Tribeca Film Festival, which was established by Robert De Niro after the 9/11 attacks, will take place [...]

Media Cube Open Day – 26th March 2010

Open Morning @ The Media Cube
As part of the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown Enterprise Week events, Media Cube the specialised centre for digital media and software companies located on the Institute of Art, Design and Technology’s (IADT’s) campus will be holding an open day on Friday, 26th March.
Media Cube is the only dedicated campus-based incubation centre [...]

Congratulations to Worldnet TPS

Irish Company Develops Secure Payment Application for iPhone
WorldNet, the Dublin-based provider of secure online payment services to domestic and international eCommerce merchants, today announced the launch of Europe’s first iPhone ‘Virtual Terminal’ card payment facility.
The application allows businesses to accept secure card payment transactions through their iPhone.
John Clarke, Head of Product Innovation [...]