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Montreal Accelerator Fund FounderFuel Graduates 11 Canadian Start-ups
0By: Kuljit Grewal | June 18th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
FounderFuel, a wonderful and successful accelerator fund take it upon themselves to select and develop entrepreneurial teams over a 12 week period in order to prepare them for the funding process. The firm supports entrepreneurs through a mentor based system along with seed funding and access to influential angel investors and VCs. According to company, the...
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Klik Integrates Facial Recognition and Facebook
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps
A new iOS application created by Face.com allows you to use your facebook contacts and more importantly their photos to instantly recognize and tag faces in all of your future photographs moving forward. The application is currently in its beta form and is available for free download. The app immediately recognizes faces within a photograph and correlate...
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Canadian Start-Up RewardLoop Raises $1 Million in Series A Round
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, O Canada
Vancouver based start-up RewardLoop announced today that they had secured $1 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group in order to further expand their business. RewardLoop’s business model is a novel and original concept that allows merchants to integrate mobile device based customer loyalty reward programs easily and cost effectively. Th...
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Research in Motion Announces Partnership with Navigation Giant TomTom
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
TomTom, a Dutch manufacturer of automobile navigation systems announced a strategic partnership with RIM at the CTIA Wireless Conference earlier today in New Orleans. The agreement will allow RIM to use TomTom’s revered and acclaimed real-time traffic technology within their BlackBerry applications to provide the most accurate and reliable traffic infor...
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Mobile App Camera+ is on Twitter’s Radar
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
Co-founded by Victoria B.C.’s own Lisa Bettany along with the development team Tap Tap Tap, Camera+ is an application that allows you to take and adapt the highest quality photographs possible with your iPhone and Android devices. Although talks have been private, Twitter executives, led by founder Jack Dorsey have met with the development team of the application to discuss a potent...
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Toronto Property Rental Company is Making Movements
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
For those of you out there who have not been introduced to RentCompass, a Toronto-based rental advertising company, you are definitely missing out. The company has progressively become the first Canadian renters’ mobile application available on both iOS and Android devices. The company has also introduced a new Facebook application that allows for inte...
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Jitterbug.tv is Subscription YouTube for Children
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Mobile Apps
Parents who are concerned with what their children may be exposed to while surfing video sharing websites such as YouTube can breathe a little easier these days thanks to Jitterbug.tv. The company that created the concept was co-founded in 2008 by Grammy Award winning music mixers Dan Gellert and Randall Green. This is an application specifically created for use on the iPad. The conce...
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The Angry Birds Take Space 50 Million Times
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Games, Mobile Apps
Everyone’s favourite mobile bird launching game seems to also be the most popular mobile game ever. The latest installment is a journey into space that adds the endless possibilities that a lack of gravity provides the birds. In what was an incredible 35 day period for Rovio, the creator of the wildly popular bird game watched with delight as the new addition of their game was downloaded an unbe...
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Waterloo Graduate Makes Prestigious Maclean’s List
By: Kuljit Grewal | June 12th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
The only technology entrepreneur to make the magazine's list of Canadians under the Age of 25 to keep an Eye On was none other than Kik Interactive, Inc.’s founder Ted Livingston. Kik is a free texting application created for multiple platforms that has steadily growing into a community that will include music sharing and photos. The application allows SMS fee free messaging that is eff...
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Square Moving Forward With Gusto
By: Kuljit Grewal | April 27th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Innovative payment company Square, fresh off of raising $100 million in funding last year for a $1 billion valuation has set its sights much higher. This time around, the target is institutional investors as these represent the parties with enough clout to meet CEO Jack Dorsey’s lofty goals. Various news sources including some shoddy independent paper known as the
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