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Youngest CEO to Ever Raise VC Funding is an 18 Year Old Canadian
0By: Kuljit Grewal | September 3rd, 2012 | iOS, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
A mobile app that learns your interests and characteristics based on your activity and interaction, AppHero is certainly no slouch. In fact, one could say that the app to recommend other apps is a representation of its founder and CEO, 18 year old Jordan Satok. The startup, which secured $1.8 million ea...
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VIDEO: Meet BERO – The Android Inspired Robot Controlled by Your Smartphone or Tablet
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 2nd, 2012 | Android, Gadgets, Mobile Apps
Many of us are big fans of the Android mascot, the adorable alien looking fellow who has become the symbol of the operating system. For those who are, allow us the pleasure of introducing BERO, the Google Android robot that is yours to command. Using an app on your smartphone or tablet, the 4” open source robot features a fully programmable and customizable interface.
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Evernote Partners with Notebook Legend Moleskine to Integrate Note Taking
By: Kuljit Grewal | September 2nd, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Two parties that both represent the past, present and future of note taking have partnered up to allow their users a new way to organize and browse their notes. Italian notebook legend Moleskine Srl, the manufacturers of the physical notebooks once used by Ernest Hemingway, Bruce Chatwin, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso had come to realize that the...
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Toronto’s FreshBooks Introduces New iPhone App for Small and Medium Sized Business Owners
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 30th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Boasting over 5 million clients spread over 130 countries, cloud accounting service FreshBooks has become the number one such provider in North America. According to an official letter from CEO Mike McDerment, the path to prominence has been neither quick nor easy. The company has seen tremend...
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In-Flight WiFi Provider Gogo Granted Canadian Spectrum Approval, Will Debut in 2013
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 28th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
In-flight connectivity pioneer Gogo announced today that they had been issued permission from Industry Canada to provide in-flight WiFi for business and commercial flights over Canadian soil. The permission came by way of a subordinate license for air-to-ground (ATG) radio frequency spectrum, the same frequency they operate on in America. That ma...
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Ottawa E-commerce Company Shopify Launches iPhone App
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 27th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones
E-commerce platform Shopify had added a mobile app to their service repertoire, allowing business owners to track orders, monitor sales trends and interact with customers directly from their iPhone. The company, which boasts over 25,000 users including the likes of Gatorade, Foo Fighters, General Electric, Tesla Motors, Tata Group and Pixar has had mobile in th...
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Rogers Communications Inc. Acquires Score Media
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 25th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Sports
Canada’s sports broadcasting world continues to become a smaller place, with Rogers Communications Inc. officially acquiring rival Score Media Inc. The deal which was made public after markets closed yesterday generated enough buzz throughout Friday to raise Score Media’s shares an incredible 47% in ...
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Music Streaming Service Songza is Available in Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 25th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
We recently shared that Swedish firm Spotify has all but confirmed that it will be expanding into Canada in the near future as it grows internationally (TQ was on it). It seems that there was another popular and highly acclaimed streaming service that was already building a following in this great nation of ours since Augu...
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YouTube Extends Skippable Ads to Mobile Devices
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Google, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
When news originally broke that there would no longer be an Apple native version of YouTube in iOS 6, a first for the iconic platform, many thought it was merely some hard feelings between Apple and Google (TQ was on it). It turns out however that the m...
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NASA Teams with Angry Birds Again, Introduce Curiosity Rover in Latest Space Update
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Games, Mobile Apps
We had shared with you some time ago (TQ was on it) that Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment Ltd. had teamed with NASA to create the incredibly popular Angry Birds Space game which featured micro-gravity and other space elements into gam...
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