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Leap Motion Sends 10,000 Units To Developers Along With SDK
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 19th, 2012 | Business, News
Leap Motion is shipping out 10,000 Leap units to developers so that they can create applications that use the companies gesture based input device. San Francisco-based Leap Motion has put its hardware in limited production as 40,000 developers are looking to work with the new device. Leap Motion is offering its product at $70 in p...
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Co-Founders of Shopify and Select Start Studios Share How Their Union Happened
By: Jeff Stewart | December 19th, 2012 | Business, News
Shopify is a platform that enables both businesses and individuals to create their own online stores. A year ago, this company was looking to improve their mobile offerings, opting to look externally, thus beginning its search for a company that can boost its capabilities after acquisition. Finally this search came to an end wh...
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U.S. Agency Gives RIM One More Chance to Keep its Contract, Will Test Run Blackberry 10 Platform
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Earlier this year things did not seems to be going in favour of Canada’s very own Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), as the pace of losing its consumers to both Android and iOS powered devices got faster and its shares price in stock exchanges also plunged down pretty swiftly and eventually hit the single digit mark. To add i...
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Influitive Gets $7.3 million In Series A Funding Round
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Toronto startup Influitive has recently closed on a Series A funding round of $7.3 million that was spearheaded by Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures. The round also featured investors that already had a ...
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Instagram Gets New Privacy Policy That Hints At Data Sharing With Facebook
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Once Facebook bought Instagram many expected the world’s largest social network to start making changes to its new acquisition right away. Facebook took its time and has slowly started placing its stamp on the mobile photo-sharing social network. One of the latest updates is to the privacy policy of
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RIM Planning Global Launch Party For BlackBerry 10 On January 30, 2013
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion is gearing up for an all out bash to inaugurate BlackBerry 10 and the Waterloo-based technology giant has confirmed that BB10 launch parties will be held in different cities around the world on January 30th, 2013. The lucky metropolises that get to enjoy the BB10 launch events include New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, Johann...
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Nasdaq 100 Adds Facebook, Bids Farewell to Netflix and Research In Motion
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Recent announcements from Nasdaq revealed that famous social networking website, Facebook has now marched into the Top 100 list of its index. With team Zuckerberg’s ascent, several other well-known tech companies had to bow out from the prestigious line-up. Facebook made its way in the Nasdaq 100 during last week and for t...
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Facebook Confirms it is Planning to Monetize Instagram
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
When Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, many people failed to understand the connection (not to mention the price paid), as they wondered how the move would enhance or change the social network. Now, after several months since the acquisition, tech observers are now sure of one thing; that Facebook...
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DIY Presentation Software PowToon Gains $600K in Outside Funding
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Business, News
The UK/Israel-based presentation software startup PowToon announced that it has secured $600K in outside funding. On this occasion, the serial entrepreneur, Ilya Spitalnik, who is the CEO of PowToon said that the company will deploy a major part of this fresh investment to add new features and iterations to its plat...
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Low Expectations May Help Research In Motion Before Third Quarter Report
By: Talha Bhatti | December 17th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion used to be a high flying stock before rivals like Apple and Samsung took over the smartphone maker's market share. The Canadian firm has been in a free fall for the past year and only recently has seen a comeback in share pri...
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