- Pub Summit series expands to 100 cities worldwide in 2013 The organisers of the acclaimed Web Summit series have announced big and ambitious plans to expand their Pub Summit series to 100 cities across 40 countries and five continents in 2013.
- Internet outages in Bangladesh may soon become a thing of the past National Internet outages in Bangladesh may soon become a thing of the past as recent evidence suggests that the country is no longer reliant on a single submarine fibre-optic cable connecting it to the rest of the world.
- Social media measurement conference to be held in Dublin next month Measurement, a social media measurement conference due to be held in Dublin next month, has announced its final lineup, with speakers from all over Ireland (even Cork), London and New York confirmed.
- New video format, H.265, to ease Internet bandwidth burden The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has approved a new video coding standard known affectionately as H.265, and informally as High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), that will "considerably ease the burden" on global networks.
- Facebook finishes 2012 as number one smartphone app Despite trailing Google Maps for most of 2012, Facebook catapulted in popularity through the final quarter to become the number one mobile app in terms of monthly unique users.
- The Tweeties: an awards night for top Irish Twitter talent Our regular readers may have become accustomed to us raving about the Web Awards, Social Media Awards, or Blog Awards Ireland, but this year we'll also likely be ranting about an alternative addition to the Irish online awards scene - The Tweeties.
- Facebook photo uploads double during New Year 2013, new record set New Year 2013 set an all-time Facebook record as 1.1 billion photos were uploaded during the 48-hour period beginning New Year's Eve and continuing through New Year's Day.
- Bing brings five times more of your friends' Facebook to search Following on from Facebook's Graph Search announcement Tuesday, Microsoft has given its second-rate search engine, Bing, a social update with "five times more of your friends' Facebook" displayed alongside normal web results.
- WordPress.com courts photographers, graphic artists WordPress.com is courting photographers, videographers, illustrators and other artists to its publishing platform by launching a dedicated portfolio section on its website.
- Google introduces Zavers, a relevance-based digital coupon solution Retailers and manufacturers will receive a first-hand demonstration of Google's new digital coupon solution - Zavers by Google - that allows them to rewards loyal customers with targeted and relevant digital coupons.