28th
May
2012
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 »
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28th
May
2012
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 »
posted in Business News, Government, National News By: Tami | Print This Post
28th
May
2012
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 »
posted in Business News, National News, Research Studies By: Tami | Print This Post
28th
May
2012
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 »
posted in Digital Products, National News, New Releases By: Tami | Print This Post
28th
May
2012
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 »
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28th
May
2012
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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posted in Business News, Careers, National News By: Tami | Print This Post