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InteraXon Raises Six Million Dollars
0By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
InteraXon, a company working with brainwave powered experiences has recently collected a whopping six million dollars for its work and declared this at the Grow Conference held about a week ago. A large number of companies took part in the fundraising for the startup and the major participants include Horizon Ventures, Fecilis Ventu...
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Wantering Aims To Improve Online Shopping in Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Wantering, a Canadian technology company, has been working for the past 18 months to make online shopping easier and more convenient for Canadians. It has been seen that shopping in the US is a lot simpler and retailers provide a number of facilities to attract customers and to help make the shopping experience less stressful. I...
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Kinect Not Needed to Run Xbox One According to Microsoft
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News
With the release of the latest next generation gaming console, Microsoft added a list of requirements that gamers needed to fulfill if they wanted to enjoy the fully loaded console experience. This did not sit well with the everyday gamer and a public backlash caused Microsoft to take a few of these requirements back to boost their chances to...
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AutoTrader App Reaches 1 Million Downloads
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, Cars, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
AutoTrader.ca is the new hot app in town and the mobile application is making strong headway in the app markets as its sales went through the roof. The iOS version of the app has reached a milestone when it recently reached 1 million in user downloads. Companies today believe it is imperative for them to interact with users who...
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Study Claims Online Shopping on Rise In Canada With a large majority Ready To Buy Online For Back-to-school Items
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
A study conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights shows that 79% of Canadians will be making online purchases for back-to-school items for their children instead of the traditional method of thronging the shops. The funding for this survey was provided by Visa Canada and it clearly showed that people intend to spend about $325 in brick and mort...
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Experts Predict Virtual Money to Replace Traditional Currency
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News
Karkal, CFO at Simple, MacMillan, reporter at Bloomberg and Thomas Stefan have predicted that in the future virtual money will be prevalent in some form and banking and purchasing experience will be totally different from what it is now. “MacMillan asked the two-person panel what a modern currency should be. Thomas says it must be something that can't be duplicated (fake paper curr...
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Edmonton Based Mover Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian and American investors injected $1 million into Edmonton based file sharing and moving platform Mover. The one year old firm aims to provide users with a swift method to store and move data. The hassle of carrying heavy equipment and accessories to carry one’s data is a thing of the past according to Mover’s representatives. Mover provid...
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BlackBerry Up For Sale As New Devices Fail To Beat iPhone, Android
By: Zain Nabi | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Unable to cope up with the demanding challenges of the industry, BlackBerry, the smartphone manufacturer that recently made attempt to revamp its tarnished image by releasing two smartphones, has put itself up for sale, apparently giving up on its ambitions of beating iOS, Android. BlackBerry made remarkable achievement in sales when it was launched in 1999, but it failed to match the...
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Blackberry’s Recent Downslide May Force The Company To Go Private
By: Talha Bhatti | August 14th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
A big announcement came in this Monday, when senior representatives of Blackberry told sources that the multimillion dollar Canadian company is looking to go private. This came just before the stock markets opened in the United States and has caused much speculation amongst investors. Blackberry once owned a large share of the smart phone m...
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Jack Dorsy, cofounder of Twitter, will be visiting Waterloo and Toronto in September
By: Talha Bhatti | August 14th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Students at the University of Waterloo are in for a treat as one of the leading entrepreneurs of his time and one of the youngest if not the youngest tech executives Silicon valley has ever seen, the co-founder of the multimillion dollar Twitter social network, Jack Dorsy, will be visiting the university and addressing young students and prospe...
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