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BlackBerry Chief Thorsten Heins Confident of Better Fiscal Year
0By: Zain Nabi | March 29th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
After posting relatively better results for the company in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013, BlackBerry chief Thorsten Heins is optimistic about the company’s prospects in the next fiscal year, hoping the Canadian-based smartphone manufacturer will go on to register even better results in the days to come. BlackBerry announced results of the quarter on Thursday, presenting some odd...
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BlackBerry Posts Surprising Quarterly Results
By: Zain Nabi | March 29th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry has posted some surprising results in its fourth quarter report for the fiscal 2013 that was released on Thursday. Against expectations of many analysts, the Canadian-based company, apparently riding on the momentum its new smartphone, the Z10, created soon after its launch in January, registered a net profit of $98 million in the quarter. That noted, an equally stunning as...
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BlackBerry’s Decision to Port Apps from Android Platform Proving Fruitful
By: Jeff Stewart | March 28th, 2013 | Android, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Just before the launch of BlackBerry 10 on US soil, the app store for the Waterloo-based company, BlackBerry World, managed to achieve the 100,000 app mark. This was an incredible feat for the company especially considering the fact that ...
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Squarespace Commerce Comes To Canada With Updated Service
By: Talha Bhatti | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
On March 27, Squarespace announced that they would be releasing Squarespace Commerce in Canada. The New York based startup offers a website publishing platform that gives users all the services they need from one account so that developing, design...
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Canadian Startup Plastiq Enables People to Pay Income Tax With a Credit Card
By: Jeff Stewart | March 28th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
With the advent of credit cards, plastic money is swiftly replacing cash as people feel more secure carrying plastic in place of actual money. More importantly, credit cards have enabled people to travel in any part of the world without worrying about changing currency. In addition to this, credit companies have started offering different attractive deals and reward points on the utilizing of the ...
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Canadian Startup OMX Targets $32 Billion In Offset Obligations
By: Talha Bhatti | March 27th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Government body, Industry Canada, has a regulation called the Industrial Regional Benefits policy which can provide businesses in Canada a chance to access $23 billion in revenue. The rule states that any company that is given a defence or security contract from the Canadian government must spend 100% of the value of the contract with in Canada. T...
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BlackBerry’s Q4 Results – What’s Ahead?
By: Zain Nabi | March 27th, 2013 | Business, O Canada, Smartphones
We have reached a point where we will finally be able to judge BlackBerry’s performance based on some stats. The Canadian company is reportedly going to announce results of its Q4 of the fiscal year 2013 tomorrow, much to the excitement of analysts all over the world. The company, however, will not include the U.S. sales figures in the result as its new Z10 device has just been released in the c...
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Entertainment Software Association of Canada Release Report On Canadian Video Game Industry
By: Talha Bhatti | March 26th, 2013 | Business, Games, News, O Canada
Entertainment Software Association of Canada released its annual report recently and highlighted significant figures about the industry in Canada. One interesting statistic from the study titled 'Essential Facts About the Canadian Computer and Video Game Industry 2012' shows that 58...
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BlackBerry’s Disappointing U.S. Launch Effects Share Value
By: Zain Nabi | March 26th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
BlackBerry has seemingly failed to so far impress the consumers in the U.S. as many reports indicate that the launch of the new Z10 phone in its biggest market is very disappointing. This has also caused a stir in the stock market that has seen a decline in BlackBerry’s share value due to such dull response. BlackBerry’s shares received a hit at the time the phone was launched as ...
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BlackBerry To Report Sales Figures Amid Negative Predictions
By: Zain Nabi | March 26th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
The time has come to ascertain the magnitude of the impact BlackBerry’s effort has created in the smartphone industry during the last couple of months as the Canadian-based company prepares to present its sales figures this week. However, many analysts have predicted a dull result for the company that was formerly known as Research in Motion. The company launched its recent Z10 smar...
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