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Mobile risk management company Fixmo has announced that Mobileyes Solutions Inc., the mobile solutions experts serving federal and provincial government departments and non-government organizations (NGOs) across Canada, has become the first Canadian partner to join the Fixmo SafeZone™ Certified Partner Program. The partnership enables Mobileyes Solutions to build custom enterprise applications for iOS and Android devices that leverage Fixmo’s defense-grade mobile security architecture and the Fixmo SafeZone secure workspace. Read the rest of this entry »

BCIC – New Ventures BC Competition has named The Top 15 competitors who will advance to Round 3 automatically, along with the 26 companies  who will move to Round 2.5, where they will be assigned temporary mentors. These 26 companies will pitch in-person for a chance to be one of the additional 10 companies to advance to Round 3. Read the rest of this entry »

Celsius Game Studios, creator of critically-acclaimed iOS arcade space shooter Red Nova, is excited to announce that its upcoming space trading game Drifter, originally slated for an iOS-only release, will now be coming to the desktop as well thanks to crowd-funding site Kickstarter. Read the rest of this entry »

Radical Entertainment has released the second DLC pack for Prototype 2 – Excessive Force is available now from the XBL Marketplace for 400 MS Points. This new DLC could well be the most insanely over-the-top pack Radical has ever created. Read the rest of this entry »

On May 29th 2012, Ottawa hosts its very first games conference. As expected, most Ottawa digital media companies along with a bunch coming in from Montreal, Toronto and beyond will have representatives there eager to fall in line to attend panels, pitch game ideas and look for beneficial partnerships to increase their business. Sylien Games will be doing much of the same. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund announced today that it contributed more than $3.8 million dollars in 13 projects that applied to the Francophone Minority Program in the first round. Since its inception in 2010, the CMF has supported a total of 71 projects by providing more than $23 million to francophone minority productions. Read the rest of this entry »

JUICE Mobile is dedicated to informing the advertising & publishing community on the rapidly changing mobile marketplace. Unlike traditional research firms, which often use samples and panels to speculate on mobile trends, JUICE draws on actual monthly data from its own infrastructure to identify the trends taking place in the marketplace. This approach thereby gives the truest mobile data available to brands, agencies and publishers who are planning and executing in the connected space. Read the rest of this entry »

Yellow Pages Group (YPG) has announced that it has enhanced the ShopWise mobile app that pinpoints the hottest deals on products and services nearby a given location. ShopWise helps Canadians shop smarter and save time and money by allowing them to benefit from deals around them using one of the largest deals database in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Less than an hour after Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made spaceflight history by becoming the first commercial company ever to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station, an independent aerospace model-making company based on BC’s Sunshine Coast made history of its own. SpaceX formally concluded signing a license agreement with Proach Models of Sechelt, BC that allows them to produce and sell scale-model replicas of the Falcon 9 rockets and Dragon spacecraft to the public. Read the rest of this entry »

Boast Capital is proud to announce a partnership with Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley to launch Startup Camp Canada, an initiative to support and grow the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in Alberta.
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