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Media monitoring service FPinfomart has announced that it has teamed up with Social Media Group to offer FPinfomart clients access to a full suite of integrated social media measurement, analysis and consulting services. Social Media Group is a full-service social media agency that provides research and analysis to some of the world’s biggest brands. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Just-Eat Canada Inc., Canada’s largest and fastest growing online food ordering service, has acquired the business of GrubCanada Inc. Just-Eat Canada is part of Just-Eat Group, the global leader in online food ordering. With this acquisition, Just-Eat is able to offer online consumers access to over 1,000 delivery restaurants across the country, giving busy Canadians more options than ever for quick, time-saving delivery and takeaway meals. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou made a series of announcements late last week about the company’s GoVenture Any Business educational simulation, which has already received a Gold Omni Award with a perfect 10.0 judging score.  Unlike other business simulations, Any Business allows teachers and corporate trainers to create highly-customized, online, head-to-head, multiplayer business simulations for any product in any industry and in any market.  Simulations can be designed to model current events, historical successes and failures, or to target specific challenges and learning outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »

You are invited to join the half a million people who have registered to participate in the ongoing beta testing of Funcom’s highly anticipated new game ‘The Secret World’, which will be published by Electronic Arts Inc. Almost everyone joining the community has chosen to affiliate themselves with one of the game’s three secret societies – the Illuminati, the Dragon, and the Templars – fueling the conflict that is already emerging on forums and social media channels everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »

For Funcom’s upcoming modern-day MMO The Secret World, this has been the ‘Week of the Dragon’ – an exciting event dedicated to the Dragon secret society — where gamers have been served new screenshots, artworks, information, and a video related to the most secret of the three secret societies. Funcom is planning similar weeks for the Illuminati and the Templars. Read the rest of this entry »

Wapos Bay: Long Goodbyes, based on the Gemini award-winning TV series, will have its world premiere at the prestigious imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto at its Closing Night Gala presented by Global Toronto. Produced by Wapos Bay Productions Inc. in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, the movie was selected for the closing night of the Festival’s 12th edition and will screen on Sunday, October 23rd at 7 p.m. ET. The screening will take place at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, which is located at 350 King Street West. Read the rest of this entry »

TomTom has announced that its newest update to the TomTom App for iPhone, version 1.9, offers TomTom HD Traffic compatibility for Canadian drivers. TomTom HD Traffic enables drivers to get to their destination faster and is the most accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date traffic solution available. The new app is compatible with Apple’s brand new iOS5. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto publisher G4BOX Inc. has released a Halloween update for its free-to-play military shooter Cross Fire. The free update features Halloween-themed weapons and equipment, a Halloween map, a new Search and Destroy map, a new display resolution, and more!   For current players, the Halloween update will download automatically upon launching Cross Fire. Read the rest of this entry »

Dx3 Canada has announced a partnership with Moneris Solutions which will see the introduction of the Moneris Small Business Zone at Dx3 Canada, January 25-26, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The Zone will feature a selection of solution providers for SME’s as well as a series of free to attend seminars delivered by Moneris, Rogers Communications, Yelp and bizlaunch.ca, with topics ranging from “building a successful website for small business” to “making ‘cents’ of social media”. Read the rest of this entry »

Crossover events are something TV viewers are used to seeing during ratings sweeps, but now  Namco Bandai Games America Inc. and Ubisoft Entertainment have announced that elite assassin Ezio Auditore from the Assassin’s Creed™ series will be a playable guest character in SoulCalibur^® V for the PlayStation^®3 and Xbox 360^®.  This monumental collaboration will let players control Ezio and his wide range of assassination tools including a Roman Longsword, Stiletto, Crossbow, Hidden Gun and his trademark Hidden Blade.  SoulCalibur V delivers exhilarating 3D fighting mechanics, breathtaking visuals, and new characters, as well as expanding the online and character creation modes.  SoulCalibur V is scheduled to launch on January 31, 2012 in North America. Read the rest of this entry »