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Uber Toronto Has Added SUVs to Their Private Driver Repretoire
1By: Kuljit Grewal | July 14th, 2012 | Business, Cars, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones
San Francisco based private driver service Uber was co-founded by a Canadian named Garrett Camp (of StumbleUpon fame), and had recently added Toronto to the list of 11 cities that it services. The company, which provides an on demand private driver service, ordered using Smartphones ...
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Toronto’s Wattpad Secures $17.3 Million Funding Round
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 13th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, O Canada
Wattpad, a Toronto-based start-up dedicated to the sharing and discovery of written content have secured a significant bit of cash from several U.S. heavyweights thanks to their incredible user engagement and disruptive concept. The company, and more importantly their site have a dedicated community of writers and contributing authors who upload and share thei...
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Kiip May Have Earned a $50 Million Valuation
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 12th, 2012 | Business, Games, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
According to several sourced across the interweb, Canadian founded Kiip, which is based out of Silicone Valley may have raised anywhere from $8 to $10 million for a 20% equity stake in their burgeoning company. This would indicate a valuation of anywhere between $40 and $50 million. Kiip has revolutionized the way that companies advertise within mobile games, opting t...
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Kobo’s Vox Leading the e-Reader Evolution
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 7th, 2012 | Android, Google, Mobile Apps, News, Tablets
Toronto-based Kobo announced recently that their 7” colour screen e-reader the Vox has integrated Google Play into its repertoire, bringing a whopping 500,000 plus apps and features to the popular product. The addition makes the Vox a formidable tablet style device that also features everything we still love about the electronic ink screen...
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Ottawa’s Snowed in Studios Releases Their Latest Mobile Game with Kids in Mind
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 2nd, 2012 | Games, Mobile Apps, Smartphones, Tablets
Snowed in Studios has released a new game entitled Monster Chase that is geared towards the children of those with iOS, Android, Bl...
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Ayoudo, Vancouver’s Help Website is Set to Launch Across Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 1st, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Combining features of Craigslist, social networking and eBay, Vancouver-based website Ayoudo is ready to expand to 50 cities across this great nation of ours. The innovate website and app is based around uniting those who are seeking help with those who are willing to provide help. The expansion will begin on the other end of the country in St. John’s, Newfoundla...
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Google Chrome Coming to an iPhone and iPad Near You?
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 19th, 2012 | Apple, Google, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones
Although their full-fledged battle for smartphone dominance cannot be denied, there is a chance that Google’s impressive browser Chrome (TQ’s unabashed favourite) may finally be coming to the App Store. The report comes from Macquarie analyst Ben Schacter, who reports that Apple may already be in the process of reviewing the application and that it may arrive as early as the end of 2012’s se...
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Moglue Allows Anyone to Create and Publish Interactive eBooks
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 19th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News
Moglue, a company that is based in both New York and Seoul, Korea has created software that allows anyone and their uncle to create rich and highly interactive eBooks regardless of their experience level. The company that was a finalist in the TechCrunch Disrupt Beijing has two related products, MoglueBuilder, which allows the creation of interactive eBooks as ...
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App Performance Management Company Crittercism Secures $5.5M in Series A Funding
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 19th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Following a $1.2M seed funding round roughly ten months ago from large VCs such as Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Opus Capital, Shasta Ventures and AOL Ventures, San Francisco’s Crittercism is back at it again. The start-up has kicked off June with an additional $5.5M in Series A funding for its mobile diagnostic and management tools. The...
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Big Names Backing the Video Application Socialcam
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 18th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
With Facebook’s highly publicized (and high worth) acquisition of photography wonder Instagr.am, the competition to become the equivalent for video is getting increasingly fierce. With that being said, Socialcam, a byproduct application of Justin.tv that allows anyone to create videos, add filters and store those videos onto a cloud or share via Facebook, Twit...
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