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Samsung says its Galaxy S Series Smartphones have Surpassed 100 Million Units’ Sales Milestone
0By: Jeff Stewart | January 21st, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung announced through its Flickr page that its Galaxy S smartphone series had surpassed the 100 million unit milestone. The Galaxy S smartphones exceed 100 million sales in two years and seven months counting from the release of the first Galaxy phone back in May 2010. It was after its launch t...
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Report Claims Lower Than Expected Sales Of iPhone 5 Lead To Cuts In LCD Panel Orders From Apple
By: Talha Bhatti | January 21st, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Sankei Biz, a Japanese newspaper has put a shiver down the spine of Apple stock holders after reporting that the Cali...
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California State Puts Retroactive Tax on Silicon Valley
By: Jeff Stewart | January 21st, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Technology investors and entrepreneurs love Silicon Valley because it’s a hub of the most talented and successful startups in the world. This technology haven has been helped substantially by the state of California which offered tax deductions to those who either founded or made investments in startups working in the region. The tax deduction allows angels and entrepreneurs to leave out 50 perc...
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Uncertainty About Future Looms as Apple Set to Release Quarterly Report
By: Zain Nabi | January 21st, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
As Apple gears up to public its quarterly report for the tenure that ended in December last year, uncertainty looms with respect to the possible decline in the company’s sales in the days to come. Although the report that Apple will release within the next couple of days is expected to be among the strongest as far as profits are concerned, ma...
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CEO and Founder of Wind Mobile Tony Lacavera Leaves Company To Launch New Venture
By: Jeff Stewart | January 19th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The CEO and the founder of Wind Mobile, Tony Lacavera, has announced that he is stepping down from his leadership post and has moved his shares to Egyptian company, Orascom, which will give the telecom an indirect 99.3 percent s...
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Vancouver Based Startup Jostle Gets $3.1 Million Equity Investment In Series A Round
By: Jeff Stewart | January 19th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
On Friday, January 18, 2013 Canadian startup, Jostle Corporation, successfully raised $3.1 million in equity investment in a Series A round. Explaining the good response to the funding round, Managing Partner of Espresso Capital, Gary Yurkovich said that, "The success of this investment round was due to the targeting of qualified...
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Video-Blogging Site Keek Secures $18 Million In Recently Concluded Funding Round
By: Ali Raza | January 19th, 2013 | Android, Business, iOS, News, O Canada, Social Media
Keek is a microvideo sharing platform that has successfully secured $18 million investments from a recently concluded funding round. The Twitter like service has so far raised capital worth $30 million ever since its inception. The latest injection of cash came from were obtained from Plazacorp Ventures, AGF Investments and Pine...
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Positive Feedback on BB10 Enables RIM’s Stocks to Touch 11-Month High
By: Ali Raza | January 19th, 2013 | Business, News, Smartphones
As more and more carriers and people test the next generation Blackberry 10 platform from Canadian technology giant Research In Motion the hype about the upcoming launch increases. With many Canadian telecom carriers announcing that they will offer BB10 to customers their seems to be a lot of positive feedback about RIM’s upcoming device...
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Ticketfly Ready To Enter Canada After Making Deals With Union Events and Collective Concerts
By: Talha Bhatti | January 19th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Ticketfly, a startup that sells concert and event tickets, is getting ready to take on Ticketmaster in Canada as it expands in to the country. The California based firm is able to make the move thanks to newly forged deals with Canadian national event promoters Union Events and Collective Concerts . Ticketfly also got a foot hold in Canada through the a...
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Videotron Pledges Support to OSMO Foundation
By: Zain Nabi | January 19th, 2013 | Business, News
Quebecor Media’s Videotron has pledged a 10-year commitment and financial support for OSMO Foundation. The two entities announced their partnership at Montreal’s Notman House during a news conference recently. OSMO Foundation, a non-profit entity, aims at supporting y...
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