Kinzen Co-Founder Talks Real News
Áine Kerr started her a career as a political correspondent writing for national papers before becoming head of content and then managing editor at Storyful. Up until 2017 she led global journalism partnerships at Facebook in New York.
Kerr’s dedication to improving how we consume news led her organically to her next venture as co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kinzen, a start-up developing solutions to control your news experience. Along with her co-founders Paul Watson and Storyful founder and former Twitter Ireland boss Mark Little, Kerr sought to create a news experience that the user can control and tailor to suit their needs and tastes – a personalised, authentic experience amid an era of misinformation, mistrust and fake news.Read more
SilverCloud raises $8.1m from VC firm
Digital health company SilverCloud Health has announced that it has raised $8.1 million in Series A funding.Read more
Marketers see value in social media
Seventy per cent of Irish marketers plan to increase their marketing budget given to social media in 2016, according to new research by Edelman and the Marketing Institute of Ireland.Read more
DIGITAL CONFERENCE FOR SMES
What is being billed as Ireland’s biggest digital conference for SMEs is set to take place at Cork's City Hall on April 7th 2016.