- 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.
- Twitter seeking to expand UK and Ireland sales force in 2013 Twitter is seeking to expand its sales efforts in the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKI) in 2013 as it introduces a new Sales Manager role at its international office in Dublin, Ireland.
- Downing Street available to tour on Street View Similar to its showcase of The White House three months ago, the British Prime Minister's Office at Number 10 Downing Street is now available to view on Google Street View.
- Facebook building mobile engineering team in London Facebook is building a new engineering team in London that will work on "key areas" like mobile and platform announced Philip Su earlier today, the new lead of engineering at Facebook's London offices.
- Twitter expanding EMEA business, almost 30 jobs openings in Dublin and London As Twitter continues to develop its Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business, the company requires almost 30 "rockstars" to work out of its Dublin and London offices.
- Skype confirms summer hiring spree Skype has confirmed its rumoured hiring spree, stating that it needs to hire 400 people by the end of summer to "keep pace" with current growth.
- BBC iPlayer coming to Windows Phone, possibly next month The BBC's hugely popular video on-demand service, BBC iPlayer, will be coming to Windows Phone users in the "next few weeks", according to a report by The Inquirer.
- Eric Schmidt defends Google+, says it's "absolutely" a success Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt has defended the company's social strategy at its Big Tent event in London today. When questioned whether he believed that Google+ was a success or not, Schmidt replied "absolutely".
- Two start-up events merge to create the London Web Summit Two start-up events, Mike Butcher's GeeknRolla and Paddy Cosgrave's Dublin Web Summit are merging this March to create the London Web Summit.
- Google gifts Dublin's Science Gallery with €1 million to help develop global network Dublin's Science Gallery has today announced that it is to receive a gift of €1 million from Google.org as part of a Google Gives Back initiative to donate more than $100 million to deserving organisations around the world in 2011.