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Sumo Logic Gets $30 Million In Series C Round Of Funding Led By Accel Partners
0By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Business, News
On November 28, Mountain View based startup Sumo Logic announced that it had raised $30 million in a Series C round of funding. The venture funding came from by Accel Partners and its Big Data fund that is headed by Ping Li. The newest injection of cash makes the company’s total outside funding $50.5 million thanks to previou...
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SMARTeacher Develops Math Game That Reacts To Children’s Emotions
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Gaming has been used in a number of learning environments to help adults and children grasp new concepts easily. Gaming in education is nothing new, however Canadian firm SMARTeacher has given the idea an innovative new touch by developing a PC based mathematics games called Prodigy. The main point that sets the game apart from other comp...
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Prezi Launches iPhone App for Presentation Viewing Along With iPad App For Editing
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
Prezi has launched a brand new iPhone app that is designed to display presentations while accompanying the company’s other popular product, an iPad application for editing presentations. Prezi accompanied its news of a new iPhone app with data that shows the aggressive growth of mobile presentation solutions being adopted by companies that only a ...
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Latest Study Shows RIM Loses More Market Share in the United States
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canadian technology giant, Research In Motion, has seen its share prices climb up recently thanks to optimism about the upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system and related devices. However, on Tuesday November 27 the company had a major setback as share prices dropped 10 per cent. The drop in RIM stock came after a report was released that claimed ...
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Kohler Moxie Showerhead Plays Music and Audio Wirelessly From Other Devices
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Gadgets, News
Wisconsin based manufacturer, KOHLER, has recently released a new product called the KOHLER Moxie showerhead + wireless speaker. The bathroom entertainment device can play up to 7 hours of high quality sound through its speaker. Users can listen to music, news and any other audio by pairing the shower head wirelessly with other devices that h...
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Cambridge Creates Centre for the Study of Existential Risk to Study Risk of Machines Taking Over the World
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Living, News
Science fiction is full of stories that show robots with artificial intelligence going rogue and harming humans. Some writers have even shown the entire human race being controlled or overcome by intelligent machine. This all seemed like a childish day dream several decades ago but with today’s advancements in robotics, artificial intelligence and the inclusion of electronics in more day to day ...
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Startup Canada Completes Country Wide Consultations, Moves to Planning Phase of Unifying Canadian Entrepreneurs
By: Talha Bhatti | November 29th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The Canadian entrepreneurial initiative, Startup Canada, stated on November 27 that it had finished consulting with its entrepreneur network across Canada and were now in the process of creating a plan to guide and focus the energies of the group. Startup Canada got launched in May of 2012 and sees itself as a lobbying group for the entrepre...
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Nintendo to Introduce Wii Mini on December 7, 2012
By: Ali Raza | November 29th, 2012 | Games, News, O Canada
To attract customers and compete with their peers, electronics manufacturers are not only looking at creating the next level of great graphics and game play they are also looking to bring physical changes to their hardware. As a result of that, electronics manufacturers are making small, slim and light weight products regardless of whether it is a refrigerator, TV, gaming console or something e...
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Bayer Acquires Toronto Based Healthcare Software Developer Company, Radimetrics Inc.
By: Ali Raza | November 28th, 2012 | Business, Health, Living, News, O Canada
Bayer HealthCare had made up their mind about pursuing Toronto based Radimetrics Inc. in order to sign an acquisition deal with this healthcare software development company. The efforts of Bayer finally bore fruit,...
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Press Release About Google Acquiring ICOA for $400 Million Proven Untrue
By: Ali Raza | November 28th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
When, PR Web issued a press release on November 26 stating that, "ICOA Inc. Acquired by Google for $400 Million" the ripples of the news were felt far and wide as the acquisition was highly unexpected. ICOA, which trades at little more than fifty cents a share is a provider of Wi-Fi services to crowded public locations such a...
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