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Rock Hippo Productions announced today that Brawl Busters, the hotly-anticipated free2play online multiplayer action game, will officially launch December 15^th.  In anticipation of the impending launch, Rock Hippo Productions has released the official launch trailer and new screenshots highlighting all of the cool new features and exciting gameplay in store for fans on December 15th.   Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft® has announced a partnership with Xbox® to offer a price promotion across a large library of digital games on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Microsoft Xbox 360®, in honor of the company’s 25th anniversary in the video game industry. The price promotion ends Tuesday, December 13, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

With Trend Micro threat analysts predicting that online shopping risks this year may be even greater due to the popular boom in mobile shopping, Canadians continue to embrace on line shopping in record numbers. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media distribution company YANGAROO Inc. has announced the completion of an integration with Ad-ID, the unique ad identifier developed by the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4 A’s) and the Association of National Advertisers, Inc. (ANA). Read the rest of this entry »

While pressured to adopt new mobile technologies and implement access to social media, 83% of Canadian companies are concerned with heightened tech risks, says a new report from Ernst & Young. Conversely, 63% reported that they don’t have sufficient budget to appropriately secure their IT infrastructure. Clearly, this trend cannot continue indefinitely without negative consequences appearing somewhere down the road. Read the rest of this entry »

The Quebec Technology Association (AQT) has made the Quebec Minister of Finance and Revenue aware of the critical importance of ensuring that budget measures take the realities of the ICT sector  into consideration. Read the rest of this entry »

Cloud-based news platform SendtoNews.com is pleased to announce that it has closed a $1 million financing round from angel investors led by Elton, Adrian and Myron Pereira & Don Wharton, all Co-Founders at ParetoLogic Inc. The funds are targeted to accelerate North American expansion out of its offices in Victoria, San Francisco and New York. Read the rest of this entry »

Leger Marketing continues to pursue international growth by becoming a majority shareholder of ISOPUBLIC, a Swiss polling and market research firm. Founded in 1943, ISOPUBLIC is Leger Marketing’s fifth acquisition over the past ten years after Criterion in Toronto, Criterion Research in Edmonton, Claros Research in Calgary and Arc Research in Philadelphia. Leger Marketing now counts 800 employees located in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary, as well as Philadelphia, Denver, Tampa, and Zurich. Read the rest of this entry »

Pro athletes will not be the only ones cashing in on their highlight reel moves in 2012, as Electronic Arts Inc.  today announced the EA SPORTS™ Challenge Series, a sports video game tournament series that will determine the most skilled Madden NFL 12, NHL®12 and FIFA 12 gamers. Powered by Virgin Gaming and exclusive to the PlayStation^®3 (PS3^TM) computer entertainment system, participants will compete for over $1-million in cash and prizes – the largest prize money of any console-based sports gaming tournament ever. Available online at Virgin Gaming, new technology allows gamers to participate in the tournament online at their leisure by pairing up gamers playing on the site at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »

In the aftermath of international disaster, Canada is often at the forefront of emergency aid relief – but is the nation’s assistance in crisis situations as effective as it could be? Veteran Citytv news anchor Gord Martineau explores this topic in an original, one-hour documentary, Tough Choices with Gord Martineau: Beyond Disaster. Read the rest of this entry »