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Canada ranks second-to-last among its peers in venture capital investment and business R&D spending, according to The Conference Board of Canada‘s ranking of innovation among the world’s leading economies. And the rest of the report card doesn’t get much better, as Canada ranks 13^th in the 16-country How Canada Performs benchmarking.
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HootSuite has announced accelerated growth in the first quarter of 2013. The company’s dramatic growth was largely driven by increased demand among large global organizations. This growth translated into a 272% increase in corporate sales (companies valued at less than $10 billion) in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and an impressive 900% increase in international strategic sales (companies valued at over $10 billion). HootSuite is now available in 13 languages and is used by more than 79 of the Fortune 100 companies. Read the rest of this entry »

The second annual VELD Music Festival, presented by Canadian lifestyle and entertainment company INK Entertainment, will heat up the summer music lineup on August 3 & 4 at Downsview Park in Toronto. Spanning across two days with over 30 internationally acclaimed EDM acts, this year’s Festival showcases some of the most revered names in electronic music, all performing “under the stars.” Read the rest of this entry »

This year, no blanks shall remain unfilled as The Comedy Network orders a second season of the retro-classic comedy game show Match Game from FremantleMedia. Set to shoot for the first time in Toronto this summer, another 60 episodes of the half-hour comedy series have been ordered. Produced in association with Montreal’s Zone3, Season 2 of Match Game premieres exclusively on Comedy this fall. Oshawa-born stand-up Darrin Rose is back for another round as host, and is again joined by wisecracking regular panellists Canadian comedy legend Seán Cullen, and beloved stand-up Debra DiGiovanni. Read the rest of this entry »

Ricoh Canada Inc. has announced the launch of RCloud Services, a platform for a suite of cloud-based services being offered by Ricoh Canada.  The first of these services is Ricoh’s Enterprise Content Management solution, which provides customers with a powerful “Software as a Service” model to address their content management needs. The company is focusing on small to mid-sized organizations, but the solution is robust enough to easily satisfy the demands of enterprise deployments at the departmental level – and in almost any industry. RCloud Services: ECM, powered by Laserfiche, provides organizations with rapid access to the benefits of a comprehensive ECM, but without the large capital investment. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute® Software Corporation, the industry standard for persistent endpoint security and management solutions for computers, laptops and ultra-portable devices announced today it has entered into a strategic global partnership with Samsung Electronics. Under the terms of this partnership, Samsung will embed patented Absolute persistence technology into the firmware of Samsung GALAXY mobile devices as a feature of Samsung KNOX, which will be launched later this year.  Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based developer Sumbola is very excited to announce its cloud-based reading platform for both the web and mobile. If you’re an author, on Sumbola’s platform your book becomes the sum of its readers, and the reading experience, right down to a single word, is now part of your knowledge. In the coming weeks, Sumbola will launch its Beta Author Program. A limited number of 200 authors will be invited in to upload their books, and access the innovative publishing backend. Authors can sign-up for the Beta Author Program on the Sumbola website on a first-come-first-served basis. Read the rest of this entry »

Cineflix Media Inc., an international creator, producer and distributor of television entertainment, is pleased to announce that Andrew Akman has been appointed to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer of Cineflix Media. Akman is responsible for overseeing the company’s corporate operations, information technology, and post-production. He is also responsible for setting up and overseeing the operations of partnerships and acquisitions. Andrew is based in Cineflix’s Toronto office and reports directly to Co-CEOs Katherine Buck and Glen Salzman. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, hosted a roundtable consultation in Edmonton today with high tech innovators, researchers and municipal Open Data leaders on the relaunch of the Government of Canada’s Open Data Portal. The Edmonton roundtable is the second in a series of cross-country consultations with the Open Data community and focuses on the features and content they would like to see on the new Open Data Portal set to launch later this year. The roundtables are hosted by the Government of Canada and moderated by well-known Open Government expert, David Eaves. Read the rest of this entry »

Knowledge in Development, publisher of the language assessment measure, the Language Use Inventory (LUI), has announced the launch of My Child’s Talk, an online portal where concerned parents can quickly find out if their 2- or 3-year-olds’ spoken language is on track. Approximately 1 in 10 children under the age of 5 are estimated to be at-risk for delays in their language development. Delays in language development can affect a child’s development in many other areas, such as making friends, transitioning to school, and learning to read, or in some cases may an indicator of a more serious developmental problem. Read the rest of this entry »