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Toronto’s FreshBooks Introduces New iPhone App for Small and Medium Sized Business Owners
0By: Kuljit Grewal | August 30th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Boasting over 5 million clients spread over 130 countries, cloud accounting service FreshBooks has become the number one such provider in North America. According to an official letter from CEO Mike McDerment, the path to prominence has been neither quick nor easy. The company has seen tremend...
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Montreal’s Wajam Earns Three Prestigious Stevie Awards
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 28th, 2012 | iOS, Living, News, O Canada, Social Media
An incredibly forward thinking start-up based out of Montreal, Wajam has gained some serious recognition. The social search engine, which integrates information from your social networks to aid in filtering searches and discovering information, has won three International Business Awards. Popularly known as ‘Steviesâ€...
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Ottawa E-commerce Company Shopify Launches iPhone App
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones
E-commerce platform Shopify had added a mobile app to their service repertoire, allowing business owners to track orders, monitor sales trends and interact with customers directly from their iPhone. The company, which boasts over 25,000 users including the likes of Gatorade, Foo Fighters, General Electric, Tesla Motors, Tata Group and Pixar has had mobile in th...
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YouTube Extends Skippable Ads to Mobile Devices
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
When news originally broke that there would no longer be an Apple native version of YouTube in iOS 6, a first for the iconic platform, many thought it was merely some hard feelings between Apple and Google (TQ was on it). It turns out however that the m...
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Discovery Communications Invests $31.5 Million in Innovative Brain Game Start Up Lumosity
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Business, Games, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Created by neuroscientists from Stanford University, Lumosity aims to improve core cognitive abilities through games. The company has been on a tear, increasing revenues by 25% quarter over quarter since its inception in 2007. That type of growth as well as 25 million members, 10 million of which have joined...
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Hey Canada, Own a Galaxy S II, S III or Galaxy Note? Jelly Bean is Coming Your Way
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 17th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Google, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Although there hasn't been any official word as yet, Mobile Syrup and Sam Mobile have heard word that the Samsung Galaxy S II, S III and Note will be receiving operating sy...
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RIM Watches on as Their Market Share Evaporates
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 14th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Business, Google, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Waterloo’s Research in Motion has to stand and watch as their piece of the growing multi-billion dollar Smartphone pie is being taken. The company, much to the dismay of shareholders and nationalists seems to be staying stagnant while competitors are releasing a multitude of superior devices.
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Toronto Mobile Security Company Fixmo Gets Some US Greenback Love
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 13th, 2012 | Android, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
With mobile devices becoming an increasingly critical part of how companies communicate and do business, there is an unquestioned need for effective and reliable security on said devices. Thanks to this need as well as the advancements and dominance of both the Android and iOS platforms, companies like Toronto’s Fixmo Inc. represent a boon to enterprises and gover...
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