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Cinemagram’s Moving Image Sharing Service Gets $8.5-million In Series A Round
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian animated photo-sharing startup, Cinemagram, has successfully closed a series A round of funding that netted the Montreal-based firm $8.5-million for its iPhone app. The mobile app is only available for Apple’s iPhone for now and lets users take videos and turn them into animate...
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Google Acquires Coupon Marketing Startup Incentive Targeting
By: Ali Raza | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, Google, News
It is no secret that search engine giant Google has been trying to get into the coupon industry for quite time. It seems that their efforts have finally bore fruit, as the multinational corporation was able to strike a deal and purchased Cambridge based startup,
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Goldman Sachs Changes its Stance on Research In Motion
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Since Research In Motion’s forthcoming line-up of Blackberry phones have received positive feedback from various developers and telecom carriers, the share price of its stocks have responded quite positively. This has also forced several analysts to change their stance on the Waterloo based BlackBerry maker, including leading brokerage firm Goldman Sachs, the latest addition to this growing grou...
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Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Adds $100 Million to its Venture Capital IT Fund
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On the eve of allocating $400 million in funds in support of private sector investment in prospective start-ups during the 2012 budget, the federal government of Canada also did not forget to reiterate its previous commitment to shore up the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC
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[Report] African Mobile Market is the Fastest Growing in the Entire World
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | Business, News, Smartphones
In recent times, mobile phone manufacturers have bombarded markets world round with an array of smartphones.As a result of this saturation, it now looks as if this new breed of mobile handsets have wiped out the traditional text plus talk mobile phones, relegating said devices to the sidelines thanks to growing demand for smarter devices. According to ABI Research, Africa is fast bec...
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Taxi Service Startup Hailo and Molson Coors Canada Partner Up To Offer Toronto Safe Rides
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian startup HailO has teamed up with Molson Coors Canada to offer the residents of Toronto safe passage home after a night out with friends. The partnership is an effort by the two companies to make the upco...
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Kik Messenger Gets HTML5 Based Kik Cards for Sharing Content on The Popular App
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian startup Kik Interactive announced the launch of Kik Cards on November 29. The latest from the makers of Kik messenger will allow smartphone users to share content through Kik in an easy and convenient way. The latest update from the company has come after a quite some time . The last updated included group chat that was announced at the South...
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Ouya Ready To Ship Android Powered Dev Gaming Consoles In December
By: Talha Bhatti | December 1st, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News
Ouya announced on November 30 that they would be shipping out the developer kits for their tiny gaming console on December 28th with the company also stating that developers would have the Software Development Kit or ODK available for download on exactly the same day. Many people were also excited to see a image of the Android-powered ...
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Khosla Ventures Leads $6.5 million Series A funding Round For Ginger.io
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, Health, Mobile Apps, News
Ginger.io, a startup that deals with behavioral health analytics, has made public that it has received $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures on November 28. Other participants in the round included seed investors True Ventures and
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Ontario Looking At Ways To Make Crowdfunding Legal
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On November 29, The Globe and mail reported that the government of Ontario is looking at ways to make their strict crowdfunding laws more flexible. Current Canadian rules make crowdsourcing, a new and quickly growing method of gaining funding for ventures, illegal in the country. At the front of this drive to loosen restriction is former Premier Dalton McGuinty who is very optimistic about the pos...
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