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Digital sports news agency SendtoNews is pleased to announce it has signed a guaranteed distribution partnership with Glacier Media Inc., a major publisher of over 80 local community media assets in Western Canada, including a network of newspapers, trade publications and sophisticated digital offerings. 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 »

It is predicted that over the coming years more consumers will be accessing the internet through mobile devices than through PCs. Want to find a brand easily in this mobile world? Despite the overwhelming use of mobile smartphones, it is not as easy as you might think. Meet Brandtree, a Vancouver-based lean startup, launched in mid-October 2012, making it easy for brands to connect with the mobile customer. Brandtree has created a suite of cloud-based tools that enable mobile consumer engagement, analytics and insights. Read the rest of this entry »

Perch, the first hands-free, always-on video communications iOS app for your home, announced yesterday that its app is now available for free download in the App Store. Designed to make communications frictionless and fun, Perch uses facial and motion detection to automatically record and share personal video messages with other members of your home. Read the rest of this entry »

Kashoo, a BC-developed cloud accounting software platform for small business owners, startups, entrepreneurs, freelancers, bookkeepers and accountants, has released a major upgrade to its popular iPad app to meet the increasing mobile, on-demand needs of small business. The company has also introduced simplified pricing options for customers that include complete access to all Kashoo features, across the web app and the iPad app, and for accountants and bookkeepers. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based Wishpond has announced the launch of its premiere All-In-One Marketing Suite for Latin America in both Portuguese and Spanish – becoming the only platform provider that offers all the tools businesses need for social, mobile, online and local marketing for the entire American continent in a single suite. Wishpond already helps more than 15,000 retailers and brands effectively drive customer growth and engagement with a broad array of online marketing activities including running ads, sweepstakes and contests, creating Facebook Storefronts, engaging fans via social networks like Pinterest, and analyzing customer engagement and demographic patterns. Read the rest of this entry »

Bet to Win is the newest iOS app from Ottawa developer Arctic Empire. It’s the result of an eight week blitz to solve a problem that’s been nagging them for a while: the lack of a fun, reliable way to keep track of your friendly wagers. You know, the ones that get made late at night during a dinner, or a trip to the bar; the ones you know you’re right about, but can never seem to get your friends to admit to making later? Now, in under a minute, you can ante up coins, throw in personal wagers, and even start the smack talk!
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Vancouver-based identity verification startup Trulioo has announced that the company has raised two million dollars in seed funding from Blumberg Capital, and recruited Google’s Director of Identity Andrew Nash as their Chief Technical Officer. Trulioo’s “ProfilePlus” product was released in beta today, assisting websites that already utilize Facebook Connect detect fake accounts. ProfilePlus is a free SaaS product, and leverages Trulioo’s patented algorithms to analyze a user’s Facebook account and provide a score indicating how much time it would take to create the account. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has partnered with Amazon’s European digital media subsidiary on a non-exclusive SVOD UK license adding close to 1,000 half hours, to their existing offering, of DHX’s classic children’s TV shows such as Inspector Gadget and Dennis The Menace. Read the rest of this entry »

SiteScout, a Toronto-based self-serve demand-side platform (DSP) for buying online advertising, has added significant mobile inventory and a number of new features to its ad-buying solution. Through integrations with MoPub, Nexage, Smaato and TapIt, SiteScout will provide its customers with more than 30 billion mobile impressions per month, making it the world’s largest self-serve mobile DSP. SiteScout is making mobile advertising intuitive and manageable, empowering advertisers to stretch their campaigns onto the devices consumers carry with them throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »