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Facebook Testing New Ad Network For Off Site Ad Placement
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 22nd, 2012 | Android, Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
After Facebook’s disappointing IPO and stock activity since, the company has been looking at ways to bring in some positive news and help increase its share prices. One of the problems that the company is trying to tackle is its revenue generation from ads and focusing on its underutilized mobile customer base.
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BlackBerry 10 Apps And Features Revealed In RIM Domain Purchases
By: Talha Bhatti | September 22nd, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion (RIM) was reported to have gone shopping for domain names on last week as it gears up for an uphill climb back to relevance. The domain buying news was followed by industry analysts because bulk buying of domains by firms gives a good indication of what to expect from the company in the future. The BlackBerry maker is well known ...
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Kobo Drops Price Of Arc Tablets And Cancels 8GB Version in Favour of 64GB Device
By: Talha Bhatti | September 22nd, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, News, O Canada, Tablets
Toronto based eBook seller, Kobo recently announced that they would soon be launching their own tablet called the Arc. The Kobo device was meant to help the Canadian firm take on competition like Amazon's Kindle. The initial announcement was that the tablet will have a 1.5 GHz dual core proces...
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Yahoo! Gets Rid Of BlackBerry As Company Approved Phone
By: Talha Bhatti | September 22nd, 2012 | Android, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion (RIM) was once known as the smartphone of choice for businesses and governments around the world because of its security and effective typing. It seems that even this image may be eroding along with the rest of the company. In a move that may be seen as another nail in the BlackBerry coffin, ex-Google executive and newly hired
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MasterCard Supports NFC With PayPass SDK Release for Android and BlackBerry
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, News, Smartphones
MasterCard has recently made public a software development kit that will help developers work with the company’s mobile PayPass technology. The SDK will only support Android and Blackberry OS 7 platforms because Apple’s IOS has decided not to include Near Field Communication (...
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Canada’s Keek Grabs $5.5 Million In Funding From Toronto Based Venture Capitalist Firms
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Keek, a website that allows users to post short videos updates in a Twitter like manner, has received $5.5-million in early stage funding from AlphaNorth Asset Management, Plazacorp Ventures and
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EnerTech Capital Closes Fourth Fund and Hires New Vice President of Investment
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Last week EnerTech Capital sent out a press release that welcomed clean technology executive and veteran Anne-Marie Bourgeois as Vice President of Investments. Bourgeois will be based in the Canadian city of Montreal and is expected to lead the EnerTech Capital’s investment in the Québec region. Her expertise will also be used as p...
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Manitoba Enforces New Wireless Consumer Protection Laws
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
In April, 2012 the Canadian province of Manitoba revealed new legislation for the protection of mobile users. The new laws have now gone into effect in the prairie province and subscribers will be covered under rules that govern cell phone contracts and fees. The new laws are aimed at reducing the chances of consumers being led astray by false ...
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Canada’s Axine Water Technologies Raises Millions From Venture Capitalists In Clean Technology Sector
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, News, O Canada
Vancouver based Axine Water Technologies has announced that it has successfully closed a multi-million dollar equity financing round. The funding was led by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital who was joined by the Business Development Bank of Cana...
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HTC Does Not Rule Out Possibility Of Using RIM Operating System
By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer, HTC, has stated that the company is open to the possibility of using Research In Motion’s (RIM) operating system on their phones. HTC is moving into an important part of the year where they will be releasing several new phones running Google's
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