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December
2011
KUKA Robotics Canada, a subsidiary of KUKA Roboter GmbH, one of the world’s leading suppliers of industrial robots, is pleased to announce the opening of their facility in Mississauga. The facility is home to KUKA Robotics Canada’s sales, applications, service and engineering staff to support customers in reviewing applications and applying robotics technologies to improve productivity and quality while reducing costs and ergonomic related injuries. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Big man in a furry red coat? Check. Special gifts for good boys and girls everywhere? Check. Spreading holiday cheer? More like raining holiday destruction on alien scum. Frima Studio announced today that its hit retro shoot’em up A Space Shooter for Free received an update for the holidays on the Android platform. Don’t let the furry red coat and hat fool you though – Commander Jefferson is more deadly than ever at the helm of the USS Eradicator. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Rock Hippo Productions announced today that Brawl Busters, the hotly-anticipated free2play online multiplayer action game, will officially launch December 15th. In anticipation of the impending launch, Rock Hippo Productions has released the official launch trailer and new screenshots highlighting all of the cool new features and exciting gameplay in store for fans on December 15th. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Ubisoft® has announced a partnership with Xbox® to offer a price promotion across a large library of digital games on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Microsoft Xbox 360®, in honor of the company’s 25th anniversary in the video game industry. The price promotion ends Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
With Trend Micro threat analysts predicting that online shopping risks this year may be even greater due to the popular boom in mobile shopping, Canadians continue to embrace on line shopping in record numbers. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Secure digital media distribution company YANGAROO Inc. has announced the completion of an integration with Ad-ID, the unique ad identifier developed by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4 A’s) and the Association of National Advertisers, Inc. (ANA). Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
While pressured to adopt new mobile technologies and implement access to social media, 83% of Canadian companies are concerned with heightened tech risks, says a new report from Ernst & Young. Conversely, 63% reported that they don’t have sufficient budget to appropriately secure their IT infrastructure. Clearly, this trend cannot continue indefinitely without negative consequences appearing somewhere down the road. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
The Quebec Technology Association (AQT) has made the Quebec Minister of Finance and Revenue aware of the critical importance of ensuring that budget measures take the realities of the ICT sector into consideration. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Cloud-based news platform SendtoNews.com is pleased to announce that it has closed a $1 million financing round from angel investors led by Elton, Adrian and Myron Pereira & Don Wharton, all Co-Founders at ParetoLogic Inc. The funds are targeted to accelerate North American expansion out of its offices in Victoria, San Francisco and New York. Read the rest of this entry »
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8th
December
2011
Leger Marketing continues to pursue international growth by becoming a majority shareholder of ISOPUBLIC, a Swiss polling and market research firm. Founded in 1943, ISOPUBLIC is Leger Marketing’s fifth acquisition over the past ten years after Criterion in Toronto, Criterion Research in Edmonton, Claros Research in Calgary and Arc Research in Philadelphia. Leger Marketing now counts 800 employees located in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, as well as Philadelphia, Denver, Tampa, and Zurich. Read the rest of this entry »
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