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PROFIT 500 Highlights Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies While Showing Male Domination At CEO Position
0By: Talha Bhatti | June 4th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
After 25 years of publishing a list of Canada’s Fastest-growing Companies, Profit Magazine has changed up its 25th annual ranking and release the PROFIT 500. The new name also reflects a change in what these company represent and according to the publishers these firms hav...
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Mozilla Joins Hands with Foxconn to Build Devices Running Firefox OS
By: Ali Raza | June 4th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Numerous reports have pointed out earlier that Apple’s long time partner Foxconn also known as Hon Hai is now looking to stretch its business beyond the Cupertino-based company. According to these reports, Foxconn not only wants to build electronic devices fo...
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Canadian Telecom Carriers Warn New CRTC Wireless Code will Increase Two-Year Contract Prices
By: Jeff Stewart | June 4th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
CRTC announced its new Wireless Code on Monday, June 3rd. The much anticipated regulation will change the way telecom carriers used to provide wireless services to their customers in Canada. The new code will enable users to terminate their contract with a carrier after two years and that too without facing any penalties. In...
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Avigilon Buys RedCloud Security In $17 million Deal
By: Talha Bhatti | June 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Avigilon Corporation, the Canadian firm that just introduced the world to the smallest HD dome camera, has stated that it has bought web-based, physical and virtual access control system developer RedCloud Security. The Vancouver-based firm says that its acquisition adds "a complem...
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Canadian Startup The Transit App Gets 35,000 Downloads in Just Three Days
By: Talha Bhatti | June 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Mobile apps look for instant success to help them build a large user base. The Canadian developers that created a public transportation app called The Transit App have just hit a similar jackpot after just being live for 72 hours. The app has been downloaded 35,000 and the Montreal-based even got a boost from Funkmaster Flex who asked his...
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Magimic Anounces $4 Million Fund For Canadian Startups at Ottawa International Games Conference
By: Talha Bhatti | June 1st, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Many startups in Canada complain that there is not enough capital in the country to help fund innovation. Game developer, Magmic, is trying to ease the monetary crunch and utilize Canadian innovation to develop commercially viable products by launching its own $4 million fund. The Ottawa-based firm made the news public at the recently concluded...
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Co-Founder and CTO of Heroku Adam Wiggins Leaves the Company After Six Years
By: Ali Raza | June 1st, 2013 | Business, News
Adam Wiggins, the founder and CTO of cloud platform, Heroku, has made it known that he has left the company on Friday, May 31st after running it for six consecutive years. Wiggins made this announcement through GitHub Gist by saying that “Today is my last day at Heroku.” However, he did not reveal the reason behind taking t...
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Steve Wozniak says People’s Anger Over Apple’s Tax Practices is Fully Justified
By: Ali Raza | May 31st, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
While delivering a speech at a business conference in Londonderry, co-founder of Apple Steve Wozniak, who had set the foundation of Apple in the mid 70s along with the late Steve Jobs, has severely criticized the tax avoiding strategies of the Cupertino-based tech giant. According to The Telegraph’s latest report, Wozniak said t...
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Canadian Startup HootSuite Rolls Out New Security Services to Reduce the Risk of Using Social Media
By: Ali Raza | May 31st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canada-based social media management startup HootSuite has announced a brand new security services that will reduce both internal and external risks linked with the use of social media. According to an expert, the majority of social media issues can be resolved or avoided with the help of the proper internal processes and training. I...
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Canadian Startup Top Hat Hires Two New Executives to Take the Company to Next Level
By: Jeff Stewart | May 31st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Canadian startup, Top Hat, which turns mobile devices into classroom tools, has made it known that it has added two new executives to its team. The name of the first executive is Gene Murray, who has plenty of experience in education technology and will take up the role of Vice President of Technology at the Toronto-based start...
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