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Amazon Buys Social Reading Site GoodReads to Compete with Apple’s E-Seller
0By: Jeff Stewart | March 30th, 2013 | Business, News, Social Media
The popular social reading site Goodreads now belongs to Amazon, as the US-based multinational company announced on Thursday, March 28th that it has acquired the website. However, Amazon did not disclose the specific details of the deal and the contract bet...
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Report Claims Apple has Slashed the Number of iPad Mini Shipments for Second Quarter of 2013
By: Ali Raza | March 30th, 2013 | Android, Apple, Business, iOS, News, Tablets
Digitimes has come up with a new report according to which Apple’s component sources have claimed that the Cupertino-based company will slash the shipments of iPad Mini to 10 to 12 million units for the second quarter of this year. Sources also revealed that this decrease in shipment is expected to touch the 20 percent mark in A...
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CEO of CWTA says Canadian Wireless Industry is More Competitive than What Professor Michael Geist Believes
By: Ali Raza | March 30th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
At the start of this month the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Michael Geist, issued a report in which he had mentioned 10 reasons why the wireless market in Canada is “woefully uncompetitive.” Geist’s report gave birth to a new debate in the country which has b...
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BlackBerry Posts Surprising Quarterly Results
By: Zain Nabi | March 29th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry has posted some surprising results in its fourth quarter report for the fiscal 2013 that was released on Thursday. Against expectations of many analysts, the Canadian-based company, apparently riding on the momentum its new smartphone, the Z10, created soon after its launch in January, registered a net profit of $98 million in the quarter. That noted, an equally stunning as...
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Gartner Report Indicates Increase In Global IT Spending For Next Two Years
By: Talha Bhatti | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News
Technology research and analysis firm Gartner recently released their annual projections for global spending on IT for the upcoming years. The study looks at a large swath of technology areas including hardware, software, enterprise and telecom to show that the world will keep spending more on IT for the next 2 years. The nu...
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Squarespace Commerce Comes To Canada With Updated Service
By: Talha Bhatti | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
On March 27, Squarespace announced that they would be releasing Squarespace Commerce in Canada. The New York based startup offers a website publishing platform that gives users all the services they need from one account so that developing, design...
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Canadian Startup Plastiq Enables People to Pay Income Tax With a Credit Card
By: Jeff Stewart | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
With the advent of credit cards, plastic money is swiftly replacing cash as people feel more secure carrying plastic in place of actual money. More importantly, credit cards have enabled people to travel in any part of the world without worrying about changing currency. In addition to this, credit companies have started offering different attractive deals and reward points on the utilizing of the ...
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Wal-Mart Increases E-Commerce Efforts
By: Zain Nabi | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News
The internet has provided businesses with an opportunity to further expand their network and reach out to consumers rather directly, but to survive in the online business world, one has to have a sound strategy and planning with respect to carrying out day to day affairs and overall targets. Competitors keep on coming with something new in their e-commerce models to beat their rivals and one such ...
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Canadian Startup OMX Targets $32 Billion In Offset Obligations
By: Talha Bhatti | March 27th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Government body, Industry Canada, has a regulation called the Industrial Regional Benefits policy which can provide businesses in Canada a chance to access $23 billion in revenue. The rule states that any company that is given a defence or security contract from the Canadian government must spend 100% of the value of the contract with in Canada. T...
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Apple Looking to Aggressively Increase Franchise Stores in India Along with Multi-Brand Stores
By: Ali Raza | March 27th, 2013 | Apple, Business, iOS, News
According to Indian law, all branded stores should obtain 30 percent of their stocks from Indian companies but unlike others, Apple so far has not been able to do so. Instead, the Cupertino-based company sells its products through franchises, which operate the stores under their own brand names. Although, the feel and the look of ...
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