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$55.6 Million Could Be Thorsten Heins Payday if He Sells Blackberry
0By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Blackberry has been the centre of attention for quite a while now. Whisperers, online technicians and conspiracy theorists have had a busy schedule this past few weeks spicing up the news from Blackberry headquarters. One such interesting story was seen a few days back this week,Aug 16th to be exact, when according to rumors, Thorsten ...
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InteraXon Raises Six Million Dollars
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
InteraXon, a company working with brainwave powered experiences has recently collected a whopping six million dollars for its work and declared this at the Grow Conference held about a week ago. A large number of companies took part in the fundraising for the startup and the major participants include Horizon Ventures, Fecilis Ventu...
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Wantering Aims To Improve Online Shopping in Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Wantering, a Canadian technology company, has been working for the past 18 months to make online shopping easier and more convenient for Canadians. It has been seen that shopping in the US is a lot simpler and retailers provide a number of facilities to attract customers and to help make the shopping experience less stressful. I...
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Kinect Not Needed to Run Xbox One According to Microsoft
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, Games, News
With the release of the latest next generation gaming console, Microsoft added a list of requirements that gamers needed to fulfill if they wanted to enjoy the fully loaded console experience. This did not sit well with the everyday gamer and a public backlash caused Microsoft to take a few of these requirements back to boost their chances to...
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AutoTrader App Reaches 1 Million Downloads
By: Talha Bhatti | August 16th, 2013 | Business, Cars, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
AutoTrader.ca is the new hot app in town and the mobile application is making strong headway in the app markets as its sales went through the roof. The iOS version of the app has reached a milestone when it recently reached 1 million in user downloads. Companies today believe it is imperative for them to interact with users who...
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Many Privacy Policies Are Long, Complex: OAIC
By: Zain Nabi | August 16th, 2013 | News
Privacy policy has always remained one of the major issues in websites in Australia. According to the latest research by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) there are about 83% websites in Australia that at least have one issue related to privacy. The latest research has shown that there are about 50 most popular websites in Australia that evaluated their priv...
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Facebook Linked To Unhappiness
By: Zain Nabi | August 16th, 2013 | News, Social Media
According to a new research, using social networking channels such as Facebook could be a reason of unhappiness among different societies. Psychologists have recently claimed that the number one social networking site Facebook is one of the major reasons of declines in well being of its users. As per the recent claims, nowadays people spend incredible amount of time using Facebook, le...
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Mars Food Study Researchers Share Exciting Experience
By: Zain Nabi | August 16th, 2013 | Living, News
In Honolulu six researchers were selected from University of Hawaii and Cornell University who were asked to spend four months in a small dome for the NASA-funded study on a barren Hawaii lava field at an elevation of 8,000 feet. They were asked to figure out the food of astronauts that they might eat when they were on Mars and also during the missions of deep-space. The six researche...
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Study Claims Online Shopping on Rise In Canada With a large majority Ready To Buy Online For Back-to-school Items
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
A study conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights shows that 79% of Canadians will be making online purchases for back-to-school items for their children instead of the traditional method of thronging the shops. The funding for this survey was provided by Visa Canada and it clearly showed that people intend to spend about $325 in brick and mort...
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Experts Predict Virtual Money to Replace Traditional Currency
By: Talha Bhatti | August 15th, 2013 | Business, News
Karkal, CFO at Simple, MacMillan, reporter at Bloomberg and Thomas Stefan have predicted that in the future virtual money will be prevalent in some form and banking and purchasing experience will be totally different from what it is now. “MacMillan asked the two-person panel what a modern currency should be. Thomas says it must be something that can't be duplicated (fake paper curr...
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