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Web content optimization company Strangeloop has announced the infusion of $10 million in Series B funding from a private investment group. The funding comes on the heels of the introduction of the Strangeloop Mobile Site Optimizer, the first website acceleration solution designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of mobile users. Read the rest of this entry »

Simon Ashby, VP products and co-founder of Audiokinetic, has been awarded “Audio Professional of the Year” at the first Canadian game development talent awards which was held as the closing event of the Montreal International Game Summit. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Inc., a leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment, today announced that GameTree TV™, the premier on-demand interactive entertainment platform for Smart TV, has been downloaded by 250,000 users in the six months since its commercial launch. TransGaming expects GameTree TV to reach more than 1 million users in its first year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (CFHU) today announced that film producer Jake Eberts, OC, will be the recipient of the Key of Knowledge Award, to be presented on November 28 at the Montreal Science Centre’s IMAX^®Theatre. Mr. Eberts will be introduced by multiple award-winning Québec director Denys Arcand. Read the rest of this entry »

Employee global rewards and Social Recognition company Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) has announced that its CEO and founder, Razor Suleman, has been named the Ontario Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®. Read the rest of this entry »

Applications for the third annual Tom Hanson Photojournalism Award are now being accepted online. Canadian photojournalists who have been in the business less than five years – from students to freelancers to photographers working at regional publications – are encouraged to submit their portfolios for consideration. The deadline for submissions is January 8, 2012.  Read the rest of this entry »

Join TVO as it revisits the historic and dramatic final days of the First World War, all through a unique Twitter campaign that focuses on the Ontario media headlines of the time. From November 4-11, TVO will be tweeting 10-15 times daily with the headlines of war-related newspaper stories from November 4-11, 1918.  As part of TVO’s Remembrance programming, the campaign will provide a glimpse of what Ontarians of the era experienced, including breaking news from the European war front, coverage of how the war’s final days affected the lives of people at home, plus exclusive interviews linked to WWI veterans. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadians will continue to have access to a comprehensive, national, historical online dictionary thanks to support from the Government of Canada. Funding was announced today at the University of Toronto by Paul Calandra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage and Member of Parliament (Oak Ridges-Markham), on behalf of the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages. Read the rest of this entry »

IT hosting provider PEER 1 has launched its public cloud division Zunicore offering Zunicore Cloud Hosting. Built with the business professional in mind, this solution offers users a high degree of control and flexibility, and leverages the established infrastructure of PEER 1 Hosting’s wholly-owned FastFiber Network™. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent developer Pleznt Interactive, Inc is proud to announce its debut iOS casual title Super Nimbus for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad devices running on iOS 4.2 or later. Super Nimbus is priced at 99 cents USD, is Game Centre enabled and rated 4+. Read the rest of this entry »