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13th December 2012

Extreme Venture Partners backs Canadian startup Vouchr Ltd.

VouchrVouchr Ltd. today launched the Vouchr iPhone application, a free, fun, and simple way to make the best local recommendations for friends and family. Backed by notable investors such as Extreme Venture Partners towards a $1M seed round, the Vouchr app is available immediately in Canada on the iPhone App Store. Vouchr distinguishes itself from similar services through its novel approach to recommendations. Through the app, users ‘vouch’ for experiences they love at real-world locations by creating vouchers that only their Facebook friends can claim. The first friend to claim the voucher using the Vouchr app gets a gift of cash dedicated towards enjoying that experience. Why just recommend a great burger to your friends when you can give it to them as a gift? Read the rest of this entry »

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13th December 2012

Sprylogics Signs Definitive Agreement with PCS Wireless

mini-orbySprylogics International, an international provider of innovative mobile messaging monetization services, has has signed a Definitive Agreement with open market distributor of mobile devices PCS Wireless LLC. Sprylogics and PCS Wireless intend to add value to those devices through the distribution and preloading of Sprylogics’ 2ya application for Facebook Chat Mobile Messaging solution, which utilizes the Company’s Liquid Messaging Platform. The application will be distributed throughout North America across PCS’s Android device portfolio. Read the rest of this entry »

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13th December 2012

Oasis Animation to Produce a New Season of Martha Speaks for WGBH to Air on PBS KIDS

oasis animationOasis Animation is proud to announce that it has concluded a deal with PBS station WGBH for the production of 16 new episodes of Martha Speaks, an animated PBS KIDS television series for kids ages 4-7. Oasis will provide the preproduction, digital animation and postproduction services on the series, from its Montreal studios. This production will create 70 new jobs in Quebec. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

Bluedrop Performance Learning Donates “12 Skills for Christmas” To Help Charities Over The Holidays

BlueDropBluedrop Performance Learning has announced that registered charities and not-for-profit organizations (NPOs) in Canada and the U.S. will be receiving a different kind of gift for their staff this holiday season.  Bluedrop is donating 5,000 seats from their most popular online professional training courses to help NPOs upgrade their staff skills. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

Sandvine Receives Over $4.5 Million In Follow-on Orders

sandvineSandvine, a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that it has received Network Policy Control orders from two Western European mobile operators, totaling over $4.5 million. The orders expand existing Sandvine deployments that enable “bill shock” notification and differentiated subscriber services. The customers are part of a multinational operator group with properties in Europe and Latin America. Sandvine expects to recognize the majority of related revenues in the first half of 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

Wavefront and CRIM Join Forces to Offer New Wireless Acceleration Services to Quebec SMEs

wavefrontSmall and medium enterprise (SME) level businesses in Quebec can now benefit from a new partnership between Wavefront and le Centre de recherche informatique de Montréal (CRIM), offering new capabilities, services and shared programming to accelerate growth and commercialization within the wireless ecosystem in Quebec. Wavefront, Canada’s Centre of Excellence for Wireless Commercialization and Research, and CRIM, an IT applied research centre dedicated to the development and transfer of cutting-edge technology in Quebec will offer shared programming, available to all Quebec SMEs, under the same roof at the CRIM research centres in Montreal and Quebec City. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

Sierra Wireless Extends 4G Leadership with Introduction of Second Generation of LTE Embedded Modules

sierra wirelessSierra Wireless has introduced its second generation of 4G LTE AirPrime™ embedded wireless modules for notebooks, ultraportable notebooks, and tablets. The six new additions to the AirPrime EM Series and MC Series support 4G LTE networks worldwide and are compatible with the Windows® 8 operating system. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

Assassin’s Creed III Hits the 7 Million Sales Mark Worldwide

ubisoft canadaUbisoft® has announced that Assassin’s Creed® 3 is the fastest-selling game in the company’s history, with total sell-through topping the 7 million mark worldwide just one month after its release. Fans have wasted no time exploring the game’s open world, and getting involved in the action-packed story. In solo missions alone, players have accumulated more than 82 centuries of gaming time and committed more than 3 billion assassinations. The deadly action continues in the multiplayer, where more than twice as many players have joined the multiplayer mode compared to Assassin’s Creed® Revelations. To date, more than 250 million assassinations have been performed in more than 5 billion multiplayer sessions. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

WMS Enters into B2B Online Gaming Agreement with British Columbia Lottery Corporation

bclcIllinois-based WMS Gaming Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of WMS Industries Inc. has announced that the Company has entered into a multi-year online content licensing agreement with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (“BCLC”). Under the terms of the agreement, BCLC will have access to WMS’ online library of authentic slot games on their gambling website, PlayNow.com. Read the rest of this entry »

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12th December 2012

It’s Judgement Hay As Cows vs Aliens: Barnyard Blitz Mooooves Onto the App Store

xmg studioCrowned the “Most Innovative Game” by the ‘Best App Ever’ awards 2012 for the Android Division, the blockbuster hit Cows vs. Aliens by XMG Studio Inc. finally get’s a sequel: Cows vs Aliens: Barnyard Blitz! The action-packed, fan-favorite with 3+ million downloads, impresses with a striking new art style, UI, and player progression flow, while sticking to the addictive push mechanic to save the cows from the aliens. The players’ fingers manipulate the cows and aliens the opposite of how a magnet would, and – if done right -– herd cute cows in the barn and push annoying aliens off the cliffs. Read the rest of this entry »

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