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Indigo Books & Music Inc. and internet service company Rakuten, Inc. have announced that Rakuten has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kobo Inc. on a fully diluted basis for US$315 million. Led by Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis, Kobo will continue to function as a stand-alone operation with its headquarters, management team, and employees based in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

Campus Stores Canada has announced that it will affiliate with CampusEbookstore.com, allowing its members the ability to sell e-books online. This partnership will give students across Canada access to more than 250,000 commercial and public-domain e-book titles through Google eBooks. Campus Ebookstore is owned and operated in Canada and the United States by The Canadian Campus Retail Associates Inc. (CCRA), and the Independent College Bookstore Association Inc (ICBA). Read the rest of this entry »

Capcom’s Vancouver Studio has released two new DLC packs for Dead Rising 2 Off The Record today – the Firefighter Skills Pack and the Gamebreaker Pack, both available for download. These new packs include new costumes, skills and power-ups to assist you in fighting the zombie hordes. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Blue Bubble Inc. has announced that Burn the Rope Worlds, the latest addition to the smash hit game Burn the Rope, with over 6 million downloads, is now available for free in the Android Market. Burn the Rope: Worlds follows in the footsteps of the original game with 100 brand-new levels, four different themed worlds including Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy and Space; and an exciting brand new mini-game called Endless Burn.

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Ubisoft has released The Black Eyed Peas Experience for Kinect for Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. The second release in the multi-million selling “Experience” franchise, the game offers to all Black Eyed Peas fans the chance to dance and sing along the members of their favorite band by following their moves and lyrics on hit songs taken from their multi-platinum selling catalogue. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »