- The Last of Us release date gets closer with first TV commercial The Last of Us, Naughty Dog's forthcoming PS3-exclusive title, is getting closer to its much anticipated release date with its first TV commercial this weekend. What’s more, the commercial will air during the season finale of AMC's The Walking Dead.
- Top ecommerce sites around the world are slowing down A report from Radware, an applications delivery and security firm, suggests that page load times of the top 2,000 online retailers has risen substantially over the past year.
- Free ecommerce accelerator hopes to get more Irish businesses selling online NDRC's Inventorium, a programme that helps individuals, startups, and existing businesses get ideas off the ground, in association with the Irish Internet Association (IIA), has launched Clicktailing, an ecommerce accelerator programme that hopes to get 20 Irish businesses selling along within five weeks.
- Google reportedly developing a unified chat service, Babble, to rival all others We don’t post rumours too often around here but this one, if true, is worthy of mention. This evening’s babble would see Google unify its various chat services (yes, all of them) into a single product, Babble.
- Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, down 4.1% in three months Facebook usage in Ireland is declining, with the social network losing 94,620 active users, or 4.11% of its user base in the country, in the previous three months.
- Spotify competitor, Rdio, launches in Ireland and other countries Music streaming service, and Spotify competitor, Rdio has launched in Ireland and six other countries.
- Payment service Stripe makes its first acquisition, Kickoff Stripe, the online payments system for developers and founded by two Irish brothers, John and Patrick Collison, has made its first acquisition; Kickoff.
- More Irish startups secured investment in 2012, €269 million raised More and more Irish companies and startups are securing capital investment but the value of those investments is decreasing, that's according to the annual Irish Venture Capital Association VenturePulse survey.
- European data protection authorities "coordinating their enforcement actions" against Google European data protection authorities are "coordinating their enforcement actions" against Google after the company has apparently failed to take specific action on alleged "deficiencies" in its new privacy policy that came into effect one year ago.
- Even YouTube can't distinguish the Samsung Chromebook with Apple's MacBook Air Samsung's latest Chromebook is so similar in exterior design to Apple's MacBook Air that not even YouTube's graphic designers can tell the difference, apparently.