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HouseTrip.com Grabs $40 million In Series C Funding From Accel Partners
0By: Kevin Green | October 13th, 2012 | Business, Living, News
London based start-up, HouseTrip.com, has recently gone through a Series C funding round and has walked away with $40 million thanks to new investor Accel Partners. The previous investors in the business, Index Ventures
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Canada’s Top 100 Employer Awards Given To TELUS And SaskTel
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The “Canada’s Top 100 Employers” list was recently revealed and from all the players in the Canadian mobile industry only TELUS and SaskTel managed to make the cut. Major firms like Rogers, Bell, and Res...
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Streaming Music Start-up Rdio Bring Their Revolutionary “Rdio Artist Program” to Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
At the beginning of this month, digital music service Rdio announced the start of its Rdio Artist Program. The start-up claimed that the unique program "could change the face of digital music as we know it" because it allowed artists to make ...
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Canadian Twitter Users Upbeat About the Future of Research In Motion
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canada based maker of BlackBerry smartphones, Research in Motion (RIM), has been in the news a lot lately and most of the headlines have been pointing at the upcoming release of the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM gave the world a glimpse of the BB10 at their developer’s conference called Blackberry Jam 2012. The presentatio...
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Canadian Accelerator Extreme Startups Takes On Five New Companies
By: Ali Raza | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
On October 5, 2012 the Toronto-based accelerator, Extreme Startups announced that it had chosen the second batch of companies, five in all, that will be taking part in their start-up accelerator program. In the next couple of months the start-ups will participate in the incubator program and its many prepratory activ...
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Jeff Westeinde and Mayor Jim Watson New Co-Chairs Of Invest Ottawa Board
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Late last week, it was announced that Jeff Westeinde and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson will co-chair the 14-person board of Invest Ottawa. Westeinde is a well known entrepreneur in the area and will take on the leadership of the board that is responsible for economic development in Ottawa. According to Invest Ottawa, the collective “d...
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Glooko Launches Smartphone Diabetic Logbook App And Connector Cable In Canada
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
As of October 4, Canada officially has the Glooko Logbook app and Glooko MeterSync Cable for Apple’s iOS. Glooko offers an innovative solution for diabetics by giving users the ability to use their smartphone as a simple and effective logbook. Glooko will be demonstrating their solution at the Canadian Diabetes Association conference taking place...
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eQuibbly Offers Users Fast, Cheap And Social Dispute Resolution
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Toronto based eQuibbly is a startup that has developed a unique way to resolve disputes. Lance Soskin is the founder of the web site and also happens to be a lawyer and investment banker turned entrepreneur. Soskin developed eQuibbly to serve as an online forum that allows two parties to resolve disputes by posting their problem in a private ...
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Acer Announces $500 Iconia W510 To Be Released In Early Novemeber
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Business, News, Tablets
Acer has been announcing its latest devices right before the Christmas season and the Iconia W700 tablet with its Intel Ivy Bridge processor will be released on November 9. The $800 tablet weighs 2.3 pound and may be a suitable replacement for an ultrabook instead of a tablet. The latest release from Acer, the Iconia W510,...
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Microsoft Sends Out Invites to Windows 8 And Windows Phone 8 Events
By: Talha Bhatti | October 10th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
When it comes to product announcements and launches, Apple rules the roost with its suspense filled invitations and genre changing products. Over the years Microsoft’s product announcements have been more straight forward and vanilla than competitors and do not have the glitz and glamour of other technology firms. However, this may be a ref...
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