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Google Ventures Gets More Cash as It Looks to Invest $300 Million a Year
0By: Kevin Green | November 10th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
Google’s venture capital arm Google Ventures has just gotten an extra $100 million to push its $200-million a year fund to an impressive $300-million. The new cash allocation has made Google Ventures a part of the elite club of corporate venture-capital funds in the world. The extra...
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Canadian Wireless Provider Wind Mobile Looking To Create The Canadian Mobile Bill of Rights
By: Kevin Green | November 10th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian company Wind Mobile, known best for its discounted wireless services has started a consumer program called the Canadian Mobile Bill of Rights. The company which is a relatively new entrant into the Canadian wireless sector has put its initiative online with a
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RIM Gets US Government FIPS PUB 140-2 Certification Before Release of Black Berry 10
By: Kevin Green | November 10th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian technology giant, Research In Motion (RIM), stated on November 8 that the company had successfully received Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 (FIPS PUB 140-2) certification for their highly awaited BlackBerry 10 platform. The government issued security clearance means that departments in the US as well as the Canadi...
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YouTube Will Live Stream ‘Call of Duty’ Matches
By: Kevin Green | November 10th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
Google owned YouTube has been trying to figure out new ways to make money, with the website moving deeper into content creation in order to meet its goals. Just last month the video streaming site beamed Felix Baumgartner's space jump live and captured a large number of internet viewers in do...
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Foxconn Struggling to Match iPhone 5 Demand
By: Ali Raza | November 9th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Controversial and powerful Taiwan based original design manufacturer, Foxconn is struggling to make the required number of iPhone 5 units for Apple due to the device's ever increasing demand. The high demand for this smartphone can be judged from the fact that Apple had sold 5 million uni...
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Facebook Re-Invites Press for Gifts Event in New York
By: Ali Raza | November 9th, 2012 | Business, Living, News, Social Media
Facebook launched its latest service, called Gifts during September of this year, allowing its users to send tangible real world gifts to their friends or family members through Facebook's wildly popular platform. After the launch of Gifts, Facebook announced that they were to hold an event on November 1 in New York in order to reveal some mo...
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Federal Jury Finds Apple’s FaceTime Guilty of Patent Infringement to the Tune of $368 Million
By: Ali Raza | November 9th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News
Apple, who many feel have been villainous for suing their primary rival Samsung for patent infringements, have gotten a taste of its own medicine. The global tech icon was found to be guilty in the court of law for infringing four VirnetX...
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PayPal Strongly Negates Rogers and CIBC Claim of Performing First Mobile Credit Card Payment
By: Ali Raza | November 9th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Earlier this week we had told you that Canadian wireless provider Rogers in association with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) introduced a digital payment app for mobile transactions by the name of "suretap”. According to Rogers, it was the first transaction of its kind; a pay...
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Rogers Canada Introduces New Attractive Cellular Plans for Their Customers
By: Ali Raza | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Today telecom companies in Canada are enjoying decent customer bases as the number of cell phone users in the country are increasing rapidly. Thanks to the new generation of smartphones, demand is stronger than it has ever been for data plans. The telecom companies in the country also understand this fact and as result, they had also upgraded their networks to provide fast services to their custom...
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Research In Motion Shares Drop Sharply After Analyst Predicts BB10 Will Be Dead on Arrival
By: Talha Bhatti | November 8th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
James Faucette, a Pacific Crest analyst, has put a dent in the slight recovery Research In Motion stock has made over the past few weeks after he stated that the Canadian firms upcoming Operating System, BlackBerry 10, would be Dead on Arrival. After the report, RIM’s stocks took a shar...
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