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Google Anounces 1,200 Employees To Be Cut From Motorola Mobility
0By: Talha Bhatti | March 8th, 2013 | Business, Google, News, Smartphones
Google purchased Motorola Mobility in a move that stunned many when the company paid $12.5bn last May for the struggling mobile manufacturer. It seems the troubles at the American company have not been resolved and Google has decided to get rid of 10 percent of the employees at Motorola Mo...
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SimpleTax Makes Tax Returns Easy With Its Free Web-Based System For Canadians
By: Talha Bhatti | March 8th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, TQ Profiles
Simple Tax, a online tax filing software startup located in Vancouver, has just gotten the thumbs up from Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) to launch its service to the public. The service was developed by Justin Reynen and Jonathan and Allison Suter who took their combined talents t...
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$174.64-Million Tangible Benefits Package Proposed In BCE and Astral Media Deal
By: Talha Bhatti | March 7th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) and Astral Media made headlines in 2012 when the two firms were in talks for a billion dollar deal in which BCE would purchase the later. However, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications C...
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General Motors Anounces Fourth IT Center In U.S.
By: Talha Bhatti | March 7th, 2013 | Business, Cars, News
The tough economic downturn that has hit the global marketplace has left many people out of a job. The United States has been working on job creation for quite some time and major industries have been struggling to become a part of the solution rather than the problem. The US automotive industry was hit hard by the recession and is now starting to revive its self. A behemoth of American car manufa...
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Ads Selling Elephant Ivory Land Google In Hot Water
By: Talha Bhatti | March 6th, 2013 | Business, Google, News
Environmentalists were up in arms after discovering advertisements for ivory on the Google Japan Shopping site. Google is now being accused of promoting the slaughter of endangered species including elephants and whales because of the thousands of ads appearing on the Japanese site. In a statement by
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Toronto-Based Kinetic Cafe Hires FreshBooks Alum Saul Colt and Steve Billinger from OCAD University
By: Jeff Stewart | March 6th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Toronto-based startup accelerator and innovation agency Kinetic Cafe is dedicated to strategic foresight, consumer engagement and design has declared that it has acquired the services of Steve Billinger and Saul Colt for leadership roles. The two professionals have the skill and the experience to take Kinetic Cafe to the ne...
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Canaccord Genuity Analyst Changes BlackBerry 10 Forecast
By: Talha Bhatti | March 6th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
After the launch of its latest platform and all touch smartphone, BlackBerry saw the hype surrounding its stock and company fade. Many analysts had shown hope that the company would do better than expected because of the anticipation from consumers. After the global launch of BlackBerry 10 and the Z10 phone the Canadian firm ha...
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Ferrari Introduces Siri Voice and iPad Minis in New FF Coupe
By: Ali Raza | March 6th, 2013 | Apple, Business, Cars, News, Tablets
When the car loving VP of Apple, Eddie Cue, joined the board of directors of Ferrari back in November last year it was just the first step towards "more integration between the two companies.” The two firms will inally showcase their fi...
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Verizon’s CFO Fran Shammo Says Free iPhone 4 Deal Helped Carrier Achieve Record Smartphone Activation
By: Ali Raza | March 6th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Fran Shammo, CFO of Verizon, got candid during a question answer session on Monday, March 4th when he took the stage at the Duetsche Bank Annual Media, Internet & Telecom conference. During the period Shammo answered some questions related to
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Open Garden Launches Version 2.0 Of Its Crowdsourcing Connectivity Service
By: Talha Bhatti | March 5th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
San Francisco-based startup Open Garden went live in May of 2012 and since its launch at TechCrunch Disrupt the company has gotten $2 million in seed funding along with gaining 2.1 million downloads. The start up states that, "Open Garden leverages crowdsourcing to create seamless connectivity across 3G, 4G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. It enables us...
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