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Via Trade Commissioners Vancouver Office & digiBC: If you have a mobile game for Android and are interested in getting on PapapyaMobile”s North American or China platforms, you should join this event.  If you are interested in a one-on-one meeting with Papaya following the event, please contact Victoria Hayes at the Trade Commissioner’s Office. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom is excited to share that 200,000 participants are now engaged in battle through ‘The Secret War’, a unique browser-based social experience that draws upon the conflict between the three secret societies in Funcom’s upcoming massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Launching on June 19^th, 2012, ‘The Secret World’ MMO pitches players against each other as they fight for the power to control the world for their secret society, and through ‘The Secret War’ social experience, participants can get a taste of the epic conflict that hits on June 19^th. Read the rest of this entry »

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 Contributions Program, which will provide $500,000 this year for projects that explore emerging and evolving privacy issues of interest to Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

On the eve of an exceptional year for Canadian coproduction at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2012), Telefilm Canada announces that the five-year total (2006 to 2010) for the volume of Canadian feature film treaty coproduction budgets amounts to $1.02 billion. This total includes the domestic and foreign budgets of 111 Canadian feature film international coproductions. Canadian feature film coproductions also earned 165 awards from around the world in the same time period, most notably the Canada-France title Incendies (2011) and the minority Canadian Polish-German feature In Darkness(2012) were Oscar nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film. Read the rest of this entry »

OpenText™ has announced that it has expanded its industry leading enterprise portfolio of mobility solutions with the introduction of Exceed onDemand for Apple iPad tablets. The latest addition to the Exceed onDemand family of managed application access solutions provides iPad users with always-on collaborative access to their line-of-business UNIX applications, while offering organizations the security and management features of a true enterprise solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Going to a movie is the most common way to spend a first date according to the results of a movie-related poll conducted by Cineplex Entertainment and Ipsos Reid. Canadians also identified “Saturday” as the preferred movie-going night and Skyfall, the latest installment in the James Bond series, as the most anticipated movie of 2012. Cineplex, as part of its celebration of 100 years of movie memories, partnered with Ipsos Reid to poll Canadians about the movies. Read the rest of this entry »

BroadbandTV, one of the largest online video aggregators in Canada, has announced the launch of a social video fundraiser that will solicit global support for a local cause. VISO, BroadbandTV’s consumer channel, has put a call out to its network of 5,000 video creators from around the world to tell the story of Mission Possible, a local charity that helps residents in one of Canada’s poorest postal codes find jobs. Read the rest of this entry »

Drayton Weissenfels, owner of the Clean 15 brand, and d&a Visual Insights have announced that they will collaborate to launch a joint venture called d&a Canada that will operate in Canada and support global operations. The newly branded d&a Canada will combine the proprietary d&a Visual Insights intelligence software, intelligence methodology and open innovation advisory to connect visionary companies and organizations with unparalleled intelligence around demand focused novel innovations, strategy, competitive and market analysis. Read the rest of this entry »

Yardstick Software Inc., an Edmonton-based award winning professional training and testing services company, is capitalizing on its incredible growth story and opening a second Canadian office. This new Toronto office will serve as an Eastern base for Yardstick’s professional testing and training services and will be home to a world-class testing centre. Read the rest of this entry »

Doxim Inc., a Toronto-based provider Automated Account Opening, cloud-based Enterprise Content Management and Advanced Document Processing solutions for Financial Service Providers, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Neocog Technologies Inc. to provide secure Cloud based storage for all documents accessed by Neocog ACE CRM Users. Read the rest of this entry »