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To support the development of promising early stage IT companies in Canada, the BDC Venture Capital IT Fund announced intention to invest $100 million worth of new commitments over the coming years. This builds on the $50 million already committed to the sector. This latest financing occurs on the heels of a substantial restructuring of BDC Venture Capital in recent years as the organization has worked hard to rejuvenate the ailing health of Canada’s venture capital sector. Read the rest of this entry »

Frima Studio has been named among Canada’s Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures in the annual awards hosted by Waterstone Human Capital. Frima was given the award for being one of Canada’s most promising growth companies with a commitment to creating a positive corporate culture for its employees. In 2012 Frima released several original new IPs across multiple platforms including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and Facebook, while continuing their core work for some of the game and entertainment industry’s biggest brands. Read the rest of this entry »

Amber Mac – best-selling author of ‘Power Friending’ and social media expert, speaker, TV host and entrepreneur, will be the host for the CDMN Canada 3.0 2013 digital media conference when it is held in Toronto May 14 & 15, the Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) announced today. Registration opens today for the 5^th annual digital media forum, the only national event in Canada focused on the commercialization of innovation. The 2013 event is being held for the first time in Toronto, at the Metro Convention Centre. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto Public Library today announced its sixth annual First & Best Booklist, the highly anticipated selection of the year’s best in Canadian books for children from birth to age five that are fun to read and help build early literacy skills. The library’s annual First & Best list is part of its Ready for Reading early literacy initiative – a comprehensive set of free high-quality programs, services and resources that supports reading readiness in children from birth to five years. This year’s list includes some of Canada’s top children’s authors and illustrators, including Jeremy Tankard (It’s a Tiger!), Cary Fagan and Dušan Petri?i? (Mr. Zinger’s Hat), Robert Heidbreder (Noisy Poems for a Busy Day) and Sarah Tsiang (The Stone Hatchlings). Read the rest of this entry »

The new Roamly Overlay SIM has solved the problem of managing roaming charges incurred by business travelers while abroad, without the hassle of having to buy a local or replacement travel SIM card and having to change their number, device or home operator. Frequent travelers can reduce voice, SMS and data roaming charges by up to 80% by simply attaching the patented paper-thin Roamly Overlay SIM to their existing SIM card. Roamly users can travel to over 200 countries and experience the same wireless coverage and quality of service they are used to, while using the Roamly Carrier Partner Network and saving on every trip. Read the rest of this entry »

Wavefront, Canada’s Centre of Excellence for Wireless Commercialization and Research, has signed an agreement with the British Columbia Innovation Council (BCIC) to deliver the Venture Acceleration Program, a BCIC Acceleration Network program supported by the BC Innovation Council. The BCIC Acceleration Network is a province-wide alliance of regional partners collaborating in the delivery of a structured program – the Venture Acceleration Program – to accelerate the growth of early stage technology companies in BC. Read the rest of this entry »

CornDog Apps has announced that Left Lane Looey^™, a hilarious road racing game that puts a whole new spin on road rage, is now available for Android on Google Play. Left Lane Looey is a speed racing frozen chicken delivery truck driver with road rage issues who gets crazy angry with morons who coast in the left lane. In this fun-filled app players speed past cars and trucks or use ammo to blow up, push away or fry the cars and trucks in Looey’s path. The key is to get Looey to his destination before his precious cargo melts or before his head literally explodes from losing his cool. Read the rest of this entry »

WordLogic Corporation has announced the launch of its brand new iKnowU Keyboard app for Android smartphones and tablets. The iKnowU Keyboard is the result of more than a decade of research and development, creating the most advanced keyboard app available. The app intelligently predicts not just words and phrases, but complete sentences as you type – allowing you to add them with a simple gesture. Not only that; iKnowU actually learns your writing style and preferences as you type, thanks to a learning algorithm that makes the text prediction more accurate the more you use it. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that the company has entered into an agreement with an unnamed, well funded Toronto-based technology company to collectively bid for the assets of Poynt Corporation. The group is prepared to enter a cash bid together with Intertainment’s secured lender’s position valued at CDN $1.7 Million. At this point, the deadline for submission of the bid is November 29, 2012. If the group is successful in its bid to acquire Poynt’s assets, Intertainment and its partner will provide additional details on their relationship and go forward plans. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto taxi app Hailo has announced an unprecedented holiday giveaway: one million dollars in free taxi fares as part of a campaign to ensure the safest holiday season ever in the City of Toronto. Beginning today and running until New Year’s Eve, Hailo will give away one million dollars of Hailo cab fare in $10 increments at more than 100 licensed establishments across Toronto. Partnerships with the bars and restaurants were secured together with Molson Coors Canada. Read the rest of this entry »