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Research In Motion Getting Ready To Launch BBM Money In Indonesia
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion has been taking a beating over the past year as it has seen share prices weaken and market share drop. The one aspect of the RIM business that has stood the test of competition is the Canadian firm's ever popular BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) service which is now a significant part of the company’s vision for the future. 60 millio...
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Uber Ordered To Charge $75 Minimum Fare In Vancouver By Passenger Transportation Board of BC
By: Talha Bhatti | December 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Taxi service startup, Uber, has run into issues with its smartphone based driving service in Vancouver. The company was testing its service before launch in the Canadian city and was hit by a notice form the Passenger Transportation Board of British Columbia which directed the company to ...
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Mobile Medical Monitor Developer Scanadu Plans To Launch Three New Products Within Year
By: Kevin Green | December 4th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Scanadu got its start in January 2011 with seed funding of $2 million to revolutionize health monitoring. Their idea was a health monitoring device that connected to smartphones to transmit and analyze health related data constantly. The body’s vital signs are an essential indicator of how well everything is working and up until now, peop...
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Kngine Aims To Answers Any Question With a Natural Language Interface
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Kngine is a natural language mobile app whose purpose is to answer any question the user may have. If that sounds a lot like Apple’s personal concierge Siri, it is not by accident. Kngine’s co-founder and CEO Haytham ElFadeel is quite happy to make the comparison. Kngine does differ in that the Knowledge Engine’s goal is not the same as S...
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Cinemagram’s Moving Image Sharing Service Gets $8.5-million In Series A Round
By: 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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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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Toronto-Based Photo Sharing Startup 500px Launches its First Ever iPhone App
By: Jeff Stewart | December 1st, 2012 | iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
After acquiring a France-based startup, Pulfingers that makes iOS apps for picture browsing, photo sharing startup 500px has launched its own hihgly awaited iPhone app. This was not the first iOS app that 500px has developed thus far, as a year ago they had released an app for iPad, using the larger screen to showcase its excellent ...
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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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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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