Mark Zuckerberg marries Priscilla Chan

By Silicon Republic - News | New Media, Technology

In the same weekend that his eight year old company IPO’d on Nasdaq Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan

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Tech start-up of the week: WorldNet

By Silicon Republic - News | Start-ups, Technology

This week our tech start-up to watch is WorldNet. Around since 2008, it has come up with a new tech innovation called Payjack to allow small businesses accept credit card payments via their mobile

15 hours ago

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Meet the Irish Facebook engineer who was part of clever NASDAQ bell hack

By Silicon Republic - News | New Media, Technology

Irish Facebook engineer Colm Doyle was one of the team of Facebook engineers who devised the clever hack that saw Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline automatically update the instant he rang the NASDAQ bell yesterday signalling the start of the social network’s

2 days ago

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Tech tweets of the week

By Silicon Republic - News | New Media, Technology

A compilation of this past week’s Twitter messages – from the serious to the whimsical – from some top names in technology

2 days ago

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Facebook IPO closes at US$38.23 after first day’s trading

By Silicon Republic - News | Business, Technology

One of the most eagerly awaited IPOs in tech industry history ended not far from where it started – Facebook opened at US$38 and while share soared to US$45 at one point by the end of the first day of share trading closed at US$

2 days ago

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Facebook shares leap to US$43, then drop in IPO’s first day

By Silicon Republic - News | Business, Technology

Social networking giant Facebook’s IPO got off to a rocketing start, with shares leaping an initial 13pc to US$43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time today

2 days ago

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