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Cloudscaling Begins Search for New CEO as Michael Grant Steps Down from His Post
0By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Business, News
The cofounder and CTO of Cloudscaling, Randy Bias, has made it known through a blog post on Tuesday, July 30th that the CEO of his company Michael Grant is stepping down from his post and the search for the replacement has already begun. Bias also revealed in the post that for the time being he will serve as the interim CE...
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Bell President and CEO Warns Canadian Wireless Users About Verizon Through an Open Letter
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian wireless incumbents are already giving the US-based carrier Verizon a tough time even before it has entered the local wireless market. The reason Canadian firms being aggressive with the Verizon is that local wireless companies want the Canadian government to provide an equal playing field to all incumbents rat...
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AVG Acquires the Services of Ex-Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs to Expand its Mobile Business
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
After leaving Mozilla, former CEO, Gary Kovacs, has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of AVG, a privacy and web security company. The news was broken by AVG itself, as the company issued a press release to announce the appointm...
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Execution Labs to Take Part in Convertible Note Program of BDC Venture Capital
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Execution Labs, an Indie game accelerator, has decided to take part in the convertible note program from BDC Venture Capital, as a participant. The company is trying to make an attempt at winning $...
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AWS Makes it Easier for Developers to Track Visitor Traffic to Their Apps by Adding More Support
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on Tuesday, July 30th that it has added some more support that will enable developers to keep a track of visitor traffic to their applications slightly more easily. Developers will be able to do so when an IP address gets connected via AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). Mentioning the details of...
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After Defacing Viber’s Website Hackers Now Defaces its App Store Too
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News
At the end of the last month, TQ reported that popular messaging and voice calling app Viber was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army. As a result of this attack, Viber not only found some discrepancies in some of its systems, but the website of the popular service was also defaced by the hacker group. The intruders left the fol...
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Amazon Web Services Brings in New SDK Support for Microsoft Windows Store Apps and Windows Phone
By: Jeff Stewart | August 3rd, 2013 | News
Support for Microsoft Windows Store Apps and Windows Phone is growing and Amazon Web Services has recently added more SDK support for the platform. AWS announced its new SDK support for Microsoft workloads through a post on its blog, whic...
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Textbookrental.ca secures $415K Seed Round Financing by Seek Capital
By: Talha Bhatti | July 30th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Renting textbooks has become a trendy option for many college and university students thanks to TextbookRental.ca and their partnership with Indigo Books. After working with Canada’s largest book retailer, TextbookRental.ca was able to secure guaranteed financing and clos...
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TELUS Makes It Possible For Android Users To Surf With New Optik TV Remote App
By: Talha Bhatti | July 30th, 2013 | Android, Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
The life of Android users has just gotten a whole lot easier after the introduction of TELUS’ new Optik TV Remote app for devices supporting Google’s operating system. The basic idea behind the creation of the app was to make the need for the remote control obsolete and brin...
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Entries Being Accepted by nextMEDIA for The 2013 Digi Awards
By: Talha Bhatti | July 30th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
People have been waiting impatiently for the Digi Awards nominations and nextMEDIA has finally announced that it will now be accepting entries for the 2013 Digi Awards, an event that focuses on highlighting companies, people and products that are making waves in the world of Canadian digital media. All members of the digital elite ar...
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