24th
April
2013
Today, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced the Anglophone Minority Incentive, a $3 M program designed to encourage television convergent production for English language production in Québec. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Government, National News By: Tami |
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24th
April
2013
Ubisoft has announced that the soundtrack of the Retro Futuristic Cyber Shooter Far Cry 3® Blood Dragon is available for pre-orders on iTunes and will release May 1st for $9.99. The soundtrack is also being offered to all PC digital pre-orders and with the PC retail version of the game. All 25 tracks are original creations from the group Power Glove. This soundtrack is their first collaboration on a video game. Their music style was a perfect and natural fit for Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon and they have delivered beyond all expectations. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Action Adventure, Mature, National News, Upcoming Releases By: Tami |
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24th
April
2013
Online store ecommerce platform developer Shopify has announced the winners of its third “Build-A-Business Competition.” During the 8-month competition period, over 10,000 entrepreneurs created new online businesses that sold over $55 million in products. Grand prizes are awarded to shops with the highest sales over a two-month period. Shopify partnered with Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek), Daymond John (Shark Tank, FUBU), Tina Roth Eisenberg (swissmiss) and Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), to offer each of the winners a $50,000 US investment in exchange for a 5% equity stake in their company. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Business News, Contests, National News By: Tami |
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24th
April
2013
Music for Productions has returned from a very successful NAB experience in Las Vegas, with the company presently finalizing 3 more foreign sub-publishing deals to assist with expanding their production music library worldwide. Hi-Five in South Korea, Soundiva in Italy and Altitude Music in the UK are the three new foreign territories that are now working with Music for Productions to provide more audio content to their production music library clients. Music For Productions is also working on several additional sub-publishing deals in other foreign territories. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Business News, Digital Products, National News By: Tami |
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24th
April
2013
LightSpeed, a Montreal-headquartered software company using Macs, iPhones and iPads to help retailers revolutionize the in-store experience, today announced the launch of StoreMaster, a completely re-engineered interface for the Mac that provides retailers with complete control over their business. As part of LightSpeed’s most extensive upgrade to date, StoreMaster enables users to track real-time data across all sales channels, manage inventory levels and process invoices and shipments from one simple control panel. Its new customizable Dashboard delivers up-to-the-minute metrics in beautiful, easy-to-read graphs, allowing stores to reach their sales goals and monitor performance. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Digital Products, National News, New Releases, Software By: Tami |
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24th
April
2013
The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is pleased to announce that Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment, will be the Opening Keynote at this year’s Festival and that David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios and Armando Nuñez, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Global Distribution Group, will deliver a CBS Global Content Keynote. BANFF named CBS Corp. its inaugural Company of Distinction for this year’s event. Each year this program will allow the Festival to celebrate a company demonstrating significant leadership in the world of screen based entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »
posted in Events, National News By: Tami |
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23rd
April
2013
Communitech‘s five-year digital strategy is producing big results after just three years, according to a report card released earlier today. In mid-2009, Waterloo Region-based Communitech set out to: Read the rest of this entry »
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23rd
April
2013
After a year of rapid growth and a partnership with London Drugs, Roam Mobility Inc. now has a retail presence in six provinces and more than 400 locations. In 2012, Roam launched their own network, which enables Canadians travelling in the US to enjoy unlimited calling and international text message for $3 per day including free calling back to Canada for worry free roaming. Data add-ons are available for just $1 per day. Products include phones, portable Wi-Fi hotspots, and SIM cards that can be used in any unlocked GSM phone. The company will also be releasing a nano-SIM card for the iPhone 5 in May. Read the rest of this entry »
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23rd
April
2013
EMC Canada announced earlier today the donation of 184 BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablets to 23 elementary schools in the Toronto District School Board’s West Region family of schools. Grade 5 and 6 students, guided by teachers and librarians, will use the tablets to create multimedia projects based on their schools’ histories. Read the rest of this entry »
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23rd
April
2013
MaRS Discovery District is pleased to announce the appointment of Euan Robertson as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). The newly created role of President and COO comes at a key juncture in the evolution of MaRS. In the fall of 2013, MaRS will open its Phase 2 building, which will more than double the size of its current facilities to over 1.5 million square feet. In concert, MaRS will significantly strengthen its suite of programs to equip Canadians for the innovation economy, grow high-impact ventures, as well as scale and diffuse innovation, both in Canada and globally. Read the rest of this entry »
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