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Canadian Game Developer RatRod Studio Finds Success In Windows Store
0By: Talha Bhatti | May 24th, 2013 | Business, Games, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Gatineau based RatRod Studio is a gaming app startup that started work in 2009. The digital firm works on a number of different projects including the development and release of interactive web content, mobile games,computer games and console based games. In its roughly four years of existence the gaming studio has gotten 25 million downlo...
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PayPal Survey Suggests Canadians are No Longer Interested in Carrying Wallets
By: Ali Raza | May 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Several analysts have repeatedly claimed that the regular old wallet has a bright future. However, it seems that PayPal does not agree with them and recently the worldwide e-commerce business has issued its latest survey, which suggests that a wallet will not do well in the future. Explaining the reason behind the bleak futur...
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Mobilicity Debtholders Greenlight $380 Million Acquisition Offer from TELUS
By: Ali Raza | May 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
A week ago TELUS finally decided to buy Mobilicity for an amount of $380 million. Before the deal went through it required approval from the debtholders of the wireless startup. On Thursday, May 23rd debtholders of Mobilicity cast their vote a...
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Canada Gets Amazon Cloud Drive Along With Android and iOS App
By: Talha Bhatti | May 23rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Fans of Amazon services in Canada usually have to wait before they are able to access new features because the US ased company launches most of its updates in its home country. That is why Canadian residents are always excited to hear news from Amazon.ca including this week where the company announced that it will be releasing
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Canadian Startup Maluuba Now Offers Sports and TV Schedule Search
By: Talha Bhatti | May 23rd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
The personal assistant app with voice recognition, Maluuba, stated that it would now be offering both Sports and TV Schedule search options in its latest update. Maluuba will be introducing the changes to both its Android and Windows Phone 8 user-base. The app got its start at TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 where the world was introduced to the comp...
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Vancouver Based Cinecoup Works As Accelarator For Canadian Films
By: Talha Bhatti | May 23rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Vancouver-based startup, Cinecoup, is playing a major role in the indie film sector of the Canadian city. The venture is described as a contest for indie filmmakers similar to popular singing competitions like American Idol. TechVibes has profiled the Canadian firm and says, "Over the co...
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Rdio Rolls Out Updated Edition of Android and iOS App With New Features and Interface Changes
By: Ali Raza | May 23rd, 2013 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
The popular music subscription service, Rdio has made it known on Wednesday, May 22nd that it has introduced the updated version of its native iOS and Android apps. The new edition of Rdio’s iOS and Android apps sports a change of user interface and new features as well. On this occasion, Rdio also announced that the latest edit...
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Canadian Venture Capital Activity Up By 55%
By: Talha Bhatti | May 22nd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Thomson Reuter's latest report on the venture capital industry of Canada states that deal-making jumped up by 55 percent during the first quarter of 2013. The upswing in investments from venture capitalists reached a total of $460 million for the time period. The clean technology sector was out in front with $180 million or 39% of total VC ...
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LG to Exhibit 5-Inch and 7-Inch “Unbreakable and Flexible” Displays in Vancouver
By: Jeff Stewart | May 22nd, 2013 | News, O Canada
When LG lost its low-end mobile phone market share to Chinese smartphone manufacturers, the South Korean electronics company decided to revisited its strategy and shift gears in order to compete against big tech companies such as Apple, Samsung, HTC, Sony and others. As a result of that move, now it seems that LG is getting more s...
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Canadian Visual Recognition App Slyce Closes $3.75 Million Seed Funding Round
By: Talha Bhatti | May 22nd, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Canadian startup Slyce is following in the footsteps of music recognition service Shazam and gaining popularity as a visual recognition app. TechVibes has reported that the fast growing Calgary-based firm has just completed a seed ...
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