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As follow up to the release of Burn The Rope: Worlds, Big Blue Bubble has released new trailers for their next projects, Fling A Thing and Hamster Cannon, both of which will soon be available for download to your iOS and Android devices. Also coming soon from the prolific game developer is Dark Incursions, a 3D-style iPhone title with side-scrolling, hack and slash game play that takes place amidst an industrial revolution and a world war in a late 1800’s alternate reality setting. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Journal has launched news apps for the Apple iPad and BlackBerry PlayBook. Partnering with Polar Mobile, Digital Journal is releasing free tablet apps that feature breaking news, blogs, image galleries and user-generated content submitted by more than 32,000 Digital Journalists from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Lionsgate, Google, YouTube, Al Jazeera and Amazon will be among hundreds of conventional and digital media organizations from across North America that will come together at Merging Media 2011 in Vancouver, Canada in October 27 and 28, to discuss and explore the future of cross-media entertainment.

Hosted by Merging Media Productions Inc. and the Canadian Media Production Association – BC Producers’ Branch, this two day Conference and Masterclass is the premier showcase for Cross-Media in Canada. Merging Media is the place where media professionals converge to collaborate and capitalize on the media revolution that’s underway; it provides a high level platform for cross-disciplines to showcase their latest work, strategize, network with key business contacts and learn from each other. Read the rest of this entry »

The Junior Chamber of Commerce of Montreal (JCCM) and Anges Québec join once again for a new 2011 edition of the Angel Investors Challenge. The official launch, which marks the beginning of the business plan submission period, will be celebrated at a cocktail reception on September 22^nd at 6 P.M., at the Centre d’entreprises et d’innovation de Montréal (CEIM), located at 33 Prince street in Montreal. Quebec entrepreneurs from 18 to 40 wishing to participate in the Angel Investors Challenge can find all the details and submit their application online, till October 25^th 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Walmart Canada President and CEO David Cheesewright has launched the Walmart Green Student Challenge, inviting post-secondary students across Canada to develop proposals that are good for the environment and for business.

“Today’s students are tomorrow’s leaders,” said Cheesewright. “We are asking for their best, most innovative ideas to make business more environmentally sustainable in the future.”

The Green Student Challenge is designed to encourage the next generation of business leaders to create the next wave of sustainable business ideas.  It is the latest in a series of large-scale sustainability initiatives Walmart has launched in Canada and throughout the world over the past five years. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Media Marketing Unplugged is presenting Social Media Monetization, a day-long seminar lead by Rochelle Grayson. In this seminar, attendees will be introduced to concrete tools and real world strategies to generate revenue, increase customer base, maximize profit and business success by utilizing social media. The seminar will take place at the BCIT Downtown Campus on Saturday, October 1st from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. Tickets for this event are $169.00 + HST until September 26th. After that date, they will be $249.00 . You can save $20.00 on the cost of your ticket by using promo code “villagegamer” when you register. Read the rest of this entry »

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is preparing to launch the 32^nd edition of Small Business Week®, a BDC trademark event, under the theme: Power up your business. Invest. INNOVATE. Grow.This year, Small Business Week will run from October 16 to 22. Read the rest of this entry »

D-Link Canada has announced the DSN-4000 Series xStack® Storage iSCSI SAN Array, which will deliver increased flexibility and scalability for secondary server applications such as disaster recovery, backup, surveillance, and archiving. With the DSN-4000 series, small to mid-size enterprises can leverage cost-effective network storage offering volume virtualization, high transactional and throughput performance, guaranteed interoperability with the host environment and ultimately a greater return on investment when compared with competing systems. Read the rest of this entry »

You are invited to join The Children’s Wish Foundation on Wednesday, September 21^st when ten prominent members of local business, political, entertainment, and community groups will become castaways and be banished to ‘Exile Island’ in an effort to raise funds for The Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada. The event challenges participants to raise $10,000 each (the average cost of one wish), as well as prepare for banishment to ‘Exile Island’, aka the Vancouver Art Gallery, which is located at 750 Hornby Street. Castaways participate in a day of mental, physical and creative challenges as they compete for the title of “British Columbia’s Ultimate Survivor”. Read the rest of this entry »

RealDecoy, a high-value web development company with a focus on content management, eCommerce, enterprise search, application management solutions, and on the emerging field of agile business intelligence, has partnered with ProtoypeD Urban Workshops (pD). Ottawa’s newest member funded workshop for hobbyists, pD enables professionals, students, entrepreneurs, techies, hackers and artists to explore new avenues of creativity by providing them with access to creative tools, resources, and technology. This partnership enables RealDecoy employees to take advantage of the resources available in the pD space and enhances pD’s existing resources including computers, software, and equipment— including a 3D printer provided by RealDecoy. Read the rest of this entry »