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Hospitality and entertainment company INK Entertainment heats up the 2012 summer music season with VELD Music Festival. Featuring an unprecedented, globally acclaimed musical line-up, VELD will touch down in Toronto at Downsview Park on August 4^th and 5^th, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) has announced its 2011 financial results, highlighting the further continuation of the positive trends observed in 2010: stronger collections and higher distributions to members. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has extended the functionality of their market-leading social media management system with a new wave of partner integrations. Joining their growing App Directory are MailChimp, Chime.in, Identi.ca, Vision Critical Surveys, and RSS Reader. These apps are available immediately to HootSuite’s Free, Pro, and Enterprise clients which now make up close to 4 million users worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Videogame Awards were handed out in Vancouver Saturday evening, with indie developed game Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP from Capybara Games in Toronto and Eidos-Montreal’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution each taking home five awards. FIFA Soccer 12 from Electronic Arts was the public’s choice for Game of the Year, and NHL 12 from Electronic Arts was named the top selling videogame in Canada. Other individual winners included Margaritaville Online from Exploding Barrel Games, and Assassin’s Creed Revelations and Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012, both from Ubisoft Montreal.  All the awards were for work developed in Canada and released in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

As part of its ongoing work to encourage Canadians to take action on violence against women and girls, YWCA Canada, the country’s oldest and largest women’s multi-service organization, released the much awaited YWCA Safety Siren app for Android smartphones.  As part of its suite of anti-violence tools and programming for young women, the Safety Siren is a unique violence prevention and intervention tool, turning your Android smartphone into a multi-functional safety device. Read the rest of this entry »

Nightingale Informatix Corporation, an application service provider (ASP) of electronic medical record (EMR) software and related services, today announced that it has signed a $2.15 million services contract with the Association of Ontario Health Centres (AOHC) to i) migrate data from their member centres’ existing EMR databases to Nightingale’s EMR platform and ii) create virtualized local environments for each of the members’ existing databases so the original client data will be accessible for reference purposes as needed. This services agreement follows the EMR software deployment contract awarded to Nightingale in December 2011 by the AOHC for the benefit of its member centres. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. is pleased to announce it has signed a licence agreement with Immediate Media for the UK magazine rights of Rastamouse, its hit preschool property currently airing in the UK on CBeebies and the BBC’s internet viewing platform, iPlayer. Read the rest of this entry »

Amazon.ca has announced the launch of its new Baby store featuring over 25,000 baby-related products. Canadians can now purchase everything from diaper bags and toys to car seats and strollers with Free Super Saver Shipping, eligible on orders over $25, and a 45-day return policy. With this large selection of baby products, customers will be able to find whatever fits their baby needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Getty Images has just announced the launch of “This Is Canada“, a photography competition that gives enthusiasts the opportunity to become Getty Images contributors through the Flickr Collection and the chance to win a brand new Canon EOS 7D Digital SLR Kit and 2,000 AIR MILES® reward miles (see below for details). Starting today and running until May 19, anyone with a camera can participate in Getty Images’ search for authentic Canadian imagery. “This Is Canada” provides a platform for the country’s outstanding creative talent to show off their visual definition of Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Sargas Capital‘s portfolio company Kontexto, a high growth leader in real time data collection and analysis for media organizations, has announced the launch of version 2.0 of publishflow™, a real time content analytics service trusted by digital media publishers around the world. Read the rest of this entry »