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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 »

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 »

Real-time, cross-language communication experiences innovator Ortsbo Inc., a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc., has been chosen by CloudTime to provide global communications for their new China-based social media network and branded content platform. Ortsbo brings the world to CloudTime users’ fingertips by instantly transforming its content and communications, in multiple languages and even those with no foreign language skills, can now break language barriers, connecting with people for business purposes or for building global friendships online, in a truly transformative way. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, has unveiled a new searchable online database that, for the first time, provides easy access and analysis of all government spending. The tool gives Canadians a quick picture of how taxpayer dollars are spent and allows Parliamentarians to better analyse government expenditures. Read the rest of this entry »

Synergyse has created the first interactive, measurable and scalable training system for Google Apps. Synergyse currently covers Gmail, Calendar and Drive with easy to access training accessible directly inside each application. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers Communications has announced another Canadian first with the launch of the Rogers Anyplace TV on demand app for LG Smart TVs. This is the first on demand video app of its kind in Canada which authenticates to Rogers customer accounts via Smart TVs. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishpond, the easiest-to-use social marketing platform, today confirmed their commitment to marketers worldwide to create, build and launch their own successful social campaigns from a self-service platform. Wildfire, a subsidiary of Google, recently announced the discontinuation of its DIY promotions. In response, Wishpond is providing a 50% discount on annual subscriptions to Wildfire users now in search of a self-service solution. Read the rest of this entry »

Destiny Media Technologies has announced a major upgrade to both the software and hardware infrastructure that powers the Play MPE® Direct-to-Web portal.  This site is used by tens of thousands of music industry professionals to access pre-release music and videos distributed through the Play MPE® system. Read the rest of this entry »

Drawing on its RSS expertise, Canadian tech start-up WellRead Inc. has accelerated development and recently launched a web-based platform that aims to simplify how readers can keep up with fast-moving traditional news and their own social media networks. Read the rest of this entry »

Montreal’s Tribal Nova, a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt company and developer behind the award winning PBS KIDS PLAY! online learning program, announces its latest app, i Learn With Bo: Nutrition! – now available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. An important addition to its most awarded i Learn With suite of early childhood education apps, the new i Learn With Bo: Nutrition! App teaches children about healthy eating and how to create a balanced diet. In the current movement to help children be active and self-conscious about their own health, this app is one of the very few that teaches young children important eating habits and skills that will help them make healthy choices for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »