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BCIC Acceleration Network Offers Diversified Advice For Entrepreneurs in British Columbia
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 25th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
New start-ups located in Canada’s province of British Columbia are being offered a golden opportunity to take advantage of the experience and knowledge of fellow entrepreneurs through the
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VIDEO: Apple’s First Three iPhone 5 Commercials
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 25th, 2012 | Apple, Business, iOS, Smartphones
Everyone’s favourite company named after a fruit has released the first set of ads for its latest and greatest device, the iPhone 5. The commercials have been done by Apple’s long time ad agency TBWA/Media Arts Lab. The first of the ads began airin...
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Telly Labs Raises $13 Million in Funding to Bring Skype to Your TV
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 25th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living
The company behind an innovative device that allows you to Skype chat from your television has raised $13 Million in new funding from Comcast Ventures and DCM. The news came by way of an SEC filing. Telly Labs flagship product is the aptly named TelyHD. The camera plugs into your...
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RIM and Microsoft Sign License Agreement For exFAT
By: Talha Bhatti | September 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canada based BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM), has recently signed a patent licensing agreement with software giant Microsoft. The agreement will allow RIM to utilize Microsoft’s latest file system technology on its upcoming smartphones tha...
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BlackBerry Distant Third Behind Apple and Android In Global Smartphone Market
By: Talha Bhatti | September 24th, 2012 | Android, Apple, Business, Google, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Technology research firm IDC recently released updated smartphone sales numbers which are not likely to go down very well at Research In Motion’s (RIM). IDC’s report shows that BlackBerry is far behind category leaders Android and Apple in global sales for th...
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Montreal Challenge Becomes Largest Source of Financing For Innovative Firms in Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | September 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On September 6 it was announced that Capital Innovation has joined hands with Investment Quebec and other venture capital funds to launch the ...
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Yahoo! Will Distribute $3.65 Billion to its Shareholders
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 23rd, 2012 | Business, News
Due to an excellent investment seven years ago, Yahoo! saw an eightfold return on its investment in Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba as it sold half of its stake earlier this week. The net proceeds of the sale totaled $4.3 billion, $3.65 billion of which will be distributed b...
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OMERS Ventures Was Part of Wattpad’s $17.3 Million Series B Round of Funding
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 23rd, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Wattpad is a disruptive community based website where users share and collaborate on electronic texts in eBook format. The company has grown to impressive proportions since its inception in 2006 earning an incredible 10 million individual monthly users who spend a cumulative 2.4 billion minutes on the site. Those numbers came from a strong ide...
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VIDEO: Meet Baxter – The Robot Set to Turn Manufacturing on its Head
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 22nd, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living, News
Created as the brainchild of a living legend in the robotics world Rodney Brooks, Baxter is the next generation of industrial robots. At six feet tall and 300 pounds, the machine is capable of expressing what it is doing thanks to a screen that serves as its face. A digital pair of eyes is capable of looking concerned when the mach...
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Canadian Government Introduces a New Visa for Foreign Entrepreneurs
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 22nd, 2012 | Business, Living, News, O Canada
In an attempt to be forward thinking and attract world class talent, Canada has introduced a new class of visa that is geared towards entrepreneurs in the hope that they will launch successful start-ups in Canada. The visa is to be issued to people who are identified by venture capitalists as being strong candidates to launch and grow start-ups in Canada. The only requirement is that ...
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