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Registration for the free digital culture festival Social Media Week Toronto (SMWTO) happening February 13th through 17th is now open. Anyone interested can sign up for one or more of the 70 events available on a first-come, first-served basis. Read the rest of this entry »

National Bank is proud to announce that over 250,000 logins have been registered to its Mobile Banking Solutions since the application was launched on November 19. Just as they already do with their computer, clients with smartphones (iPhone^®, Blackberry^®1 and Android™) can use the m.nbc.ca mobile site to view their account balances, pay their bills, manage the limits of their Client Card and transfer funds from one account to another, not only at National Bank, but using Interac e-Transfer^®2, to any personal account in a participating Canadian financial institution. Read the rest of this entry »

VeriCorder Technology Inc. is proud to announce the appointment of Jason Neale as the company’s new CEO. VeriCorder was founded in 2008 with the goal of producing a new, and highly disruptive, Online Media Publishing Platform. It allows users to quickly create high-quality video on a mobile device, and publish directly to their website. Typical customers include news agencies, schools and SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises) wishing to produce short marketing videos. Read the rest of this entry »

Organized by Interactive Ontario, GameON: Finance connects the games industry’s leading players to new business opportunities in the interactive entertainment industries.

While the first day offered a variety of sessions on venture capital, project-funding, value of analytics, lean start-up models, and exit strategies, there was a single and consistant message to game studios: Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Communications Inc. announced today that it has entered into a five-year $1 billion bank credit facility having a maturity date in January 2017 with a syndicate of ten financial institutions, including The Toronto-Dominion Bank as lead arranger and sole bookrunner, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Royal Bank of Canada and The Bank of Nova Scotia as syndication agents and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi as documentation agent. This facility replaces the prior credit facility which was scheduled to mature in May 2012. The new facility is to be used for general corporate purposes. Read the rest of this entry »

Rockstar Games Vancouver and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. have announced that Max Payne 3 is expected to launch on the Xbox 360® and PlayStation®3 on May 15, 2012 in North America and May 18, 2012 internationally. The PC version will be released on May 29, 2012 in North America and June 1, 2012 internationally. Read the rest of this entry »

2K Games today announced that gamers in most regions who are Gold members on the Xbox LIVE® online entertainment network can now download an exclusive playable demo of The Darkness™II. On January 24, 2012, the demo will become broadly available worldwide for Xbox LIVE members, Windows PC gamers via Steam, and PlayStation® 3 users in North America via PlayStation® Network. The demo will be made available in most international markets on the PlayStation® Network on January 25, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Sprightly Software has announced Screen Ruler 2 for Mac OS X, an update to their simple, yet powerful utility for working with on-screen graphics. Take accurate measurements anywhere on-screen, even across multiple displays. New in version 2, a completely redesigned user interface, the ability to run Screen Ruler from the menu bar, and Screen Ruler can now measure in mm, cm, and inches, in addition to measuring pixels. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto Macintosh accounting software developer Accountek Solutions Inc. has announced the release of its latest version of Connected Accounting & ERP software, version 7.0, including advanced features that focus on access to information and improving collaboration between teams. Read the rest of this entry »

Computer tablets will have the quickest ‘multi-anything’ market penetration in history as Canadians continue to buy them in 2012, even if they already have one. In fact, many Canadian households will have more tablets than people as families increasingly use them for specific tasks like reading or general pursuits such as accessing the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »