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FOR THE FIRST time ever, the Nasdaq opening bell was rung in Ireland.
This was Taoiseach Enda Kenny doing the deed at the Web Summit in Dublin’s RDS this lunchtime. To the left (in blue t-shirt) is Web Summit founder Paddy Cosgrave, whose event has grown over the past four years to become Europe’s largest tech convention with 10,000 attendees.
Ding dong.
Enda got a cool headset:
Bruce Aust from NASDAQ was happy to be there:
Paddy Cosgrave was happy that Bruce was there:
This lot are all very happy:
Images: Web Summit
The Taoiseach also made a stirring speech in which he said that the ringing of the bell was “symbolic of Ireland’s prime position as a hub of digital enterprise and innovation”. He said that the RDS was “full of the energy of Ireland’s young, skilled and passionate people” and that we are “the most open economy in the western world”.
If you wish to read the full text of his speech, click here.
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No Apple store in Dublin?
To my eternal annoyance!
I have used the Apple Store app in its UK stores and paid for things with it using my Apple ID. Fierce handy!
Matthew, is there not an Apple reseller in the city ? In the UK, a company called Stormfront have lots of branches in smaller cities and they are an official Apple reseller with stores very similar to Apple’s own.
So your phone will tell you to go to a store and the fork out €700 to buy a newer version……..
I think this will work very well will iPhone users. Well done apple, was getting worried that you had lost yourself there for a while!
Its time Dublin and Cork had apple stores.Whats stopping them from setting up in R.of Ireland.We are told that we are the best country in the world to do business in.You’d think it was a no brainer for Apple.
Apparently they are waiting for a “prime location”
I thought they’d move into where HMV was on Grafton st.
Places as small as Waterford in the UK(like Brighton and Exeter ) have one, so I don’t understand why there isn’t one in the whole of Ireland.
this is consumerism going out of control – urging people to buy buy buy .
the annual or biennial upgrades etc – a near total con trick
“The iBeacon allows you to scan and pay for some items using your phone, as well as alerting you to products, events and other information.”
The iBeacon doesn’t enable you to scan and pay for some items, it’s purely for alerting you to products/events based on your proximity.
No Apple stores in ireland it’s terrible. It must be the only country in the western world without one.
So what. News story my SARS.
Maybe Bono could bring Apple to Ireland?
have your say