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Research and Markets has announced the addition of Plimsoll Publishing’s “Film Production (Global)” report to their offering. This new report provides a detailed overview of the global film production market and delivers a comprehensive individual analysis on the top 350 companies. It includes a wealth of information on the financial trends over the past four years. A quick glance of this report will tell you that 100 companies have a declining Plimsoll financial rating, while 79 have shown good sales growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Sci-fi real-time strategy games developer Blackbird Interactive has released the first gameplay trailer for their upcoming online strategy game HARDWARE: Shipbreakers. Following the release of a series of assets introducing the game’s visual style, this brand new trailer will show players how in-game graphics have been fully realized based upon the iconic, original concept art. Players can expect the game to closely resemble the stylized concept art as they traverse the varied terrain of LM-27. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) would like to congratulates all winners of the Youth Media Alliance Awards of Excellence, which were presented last night at a gala held at CBC’s Glenn-Gould Studio in Toronto. The Awards of Excellence recognize the creative talents of those working in children’s & youth television and digital content across Canada – the same talent that has contributed to making Canada a world-leader in children’s & youth content creation. The CMF, which supports the creation of Canadian content for all audiovisual platforms, was one of the prestige partners for the fourth consecutive year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Toronto Animation Arts Festival International (TAAFI), celebrating the best of animation arts from around the world, is back for its second year this July 26th through 28th at TIFF Bell Lightbox and Corus Quay. With the addition of expanded industry and family programming new this year, TAAFI is quickly becoming Canada’s premiere animation festival. The industry-focused festival programme will continue to broaden and enlighten audiences from all strata of the animation industry with insights from industry leaders and speakers, exclusive events, a range of skills and business development opportunities for the amateur and professional artist alike, and a platform for the burgeoning animation industry within Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

After having added more than 100 conferences and master classes in the past 2 years to its successful Business-to-Business formula, Game Connection Europe is back with a brand new edition. The event’s goal is to grow and advance the art and science of the game industry, thus the organizers invite you to submit your proposal to become one of GCE’s selected speakers. If you are an experienced professional, always one step ahead, full of exciting experiences to share, and a specialist in your field, please send in your proposal before June 28th, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

Jean Bureau, President and CEO of Incendo, a Montreal-based provider of television production and distribution services, is proud to announce and welcome Jean-Philippe Normandeau to the team as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Incendo will benefit greatly from Mr. Normandeau’s vast experience in management and strategic development. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) renewed until August 31, 2018, the licences of the English- and French-language television and radio services of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The CRTC has examined the CBC’s five-year plan, “Strategy 2015: Everyone, Every way,” which sets out the means by which the CBC intends to fulfill its mandate under the Broadcasting Act. The CRTC supports the emphasis placed by the CBC in this plan on national programming and regional reflection, and has taken note of the CBC’s strategy regarding its presence on digital platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Strum is a platform that connects customers directly with local business owners. Strum’s patent-pending architecture makes it super-easy for customers to locate and send messages to their favourite businesses, tag specific employees for great service and send private or public messages to business owners directly. Strum enables customers to earn Strum Points for their activity and use those points to bid on great local goods and services in the Strum Auction. Employees noted for Great Service earn Strum Points too. For businesses, Strum offers a robust, cloud-based tool to engage with the customers that love them, recognize their ‘rock-star’ employees, and give their regular customers more attention and rewards. Read the rest of this entry »

Skills, attitudes and behaviours of individuals are central to an organization’s ability to innovate, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s Innovation Skills Profile 2.0 (ISP2.0), which was launched today. It identifies the skills needed to generate ideas, take calculated risks and be entrepreneurial, develop interpersonal relationships that support innovation, and implement ideas. The ISP2.0 is designed to be used by employees, employers, educators, students, governments, labour and communities to become more innovative. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based provider of enterprise mobile applications Flowfinity Wireless Inc. has announced that security services provider McCoy Brown & Associates has selected Flowfinity software for mobile incident and patrol reporting. The security company plans to improve customer service levels and competitive positioning by replacing inefficient paper forms with a real-time mobile solution. McCoy Brown & Associates wanted a cloud solution that would allow them to communicate to clients in a timely manner while reducing delays, data entry and lost paperwork. Using Flowfinity software, the company quickly created mobile versions of their existing forms and set up automatic email reports for clients. Read the rest of this entry »