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Telus Launch a Petition Website Against Verizon
0By: Talha Bhatti | August 24th, 2013 | News, O Canada
In an effort to gather public support, Telus has launched their own campaign against Verizon, reports iphoneincanada.com. The campaign will be in the form of a website named as canadaplayfair.com. The purpose of this website campaign is to allow the visitors to sign and submit a petition to industry Minister James Moore so the Canadian wireless market can provide equal and fair opport...
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BlackBerry Z30 Gets Takes on Nokia Lumia 925 in New Leaked Image
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
So far BlackBerry has rolled out three BlackBerry 10 devices, of which two were high-end devices, the all-touch Z10 and Q10 with QWERTY keyboard, whereas the third smartphone was a mid-tier handset, the Q5. However, just like the Q10 the mid-level Q5 also boasts a QWERTY keyboard, but has unimpressive specs. Now several leake...
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Canadian Angel Investors To Gather in Calgary for EPIC Conference
By: Talha Bhatti | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The Entrepreneurs and Private Investors in Canada Conference, otherwise known as EPIC, is Canada’s go to gathering for facilitating these conversations. EPIC is three days of un-conference style discussion, about getting in, maintenance, and getting out (exiting) of angel investments. EPIC will also cover the lates...
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Toronto-Based Artez Interactive Gets Acquired by FrontStream Payments for an Undisclosed Amount
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
The online fundraising solution provider, Artez Interactive, made it known on August 19th through a media release that it has been acquired by FrontStream Payments, a top payment providing company that also does peer-to-peer fundraising and provide...
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Canadian Government Says It Is not Going to Help BlackBerry Sort Its Problems
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
It’s not a hidden secret anymore that BlackBerry is struggling in the smartphone business, as the Waterloo-based company has officially made it known that it is considering all options, which includes selling the company or issuing an IPO to bring in new invest...
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BlackBerry World Houses 47,000 Low Quality Apps Submitted by Single Anonymous Developer
By: Ali Raza | August 24th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
When BlackBerry was close to launching its latest BlackBerry 10 hardware and software at the start of this year, the Canadian company made it known that at the time of launch its app store, BlackBerry World, would boast 70,000 apps. The Waterloo-based company kept its promise and made 70,000 apps available to BlackBerry users...
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6.3-Inch Samsung Galaxy Mega Soon to Hit Stores in Canada
By: Ali Raza | August 23rd, 2013 | Android, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Samsung has announced the 6.3-inch Galaxy Mega smartphone about a month ago and after that it has appeared on the list of several Canadian wireless carriers, which indicated that the device will soon make its debut in the country. So finally the wait for Canadians has come to an end, as on Tuesday, August 13th, Samsung made it o...
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Thalmic Labs Add Two Former BlackBerry Executives to Team
By: Ali Raza | August 23rd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
Even after releasing its latest BlackBerry 10 hardware and software at the start of 2013, Canada-based BlackBerry was not able to make much of an impression on smartphone users, as the company once again showed a loss in the third quarter of this year. Moreover, some executives in BlackBerry also decided to part ways with the...
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FounderFuel and Real Ventures’ Pitch IT Tour Seven Canadian Cities from September
By: Ali Raza | August 22nd, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada
FounderFuel General Manager, Ian Jeffrey, Real Ventures's John Stokes are set to hit the road for a seven day tour starting this September in order to carry out a “Pan-Canadian Pitch Training Workshop for IT Startups.” During...
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Majestic Media Launches an Accelerator ‘Social Titan Labs’ for building Social Products
By: Talha Bhatti | August 21st, 2013 | News, O Canada
Last week an important announcement came on behalf of Majestic Media regarding launch of an all new accelerator ‘Social Titan Labs’. Majestic Media is a Toronto based firm which focuses on Facebook for market development has been keen on developing products and applications based on Facebook and has recently shown inclinat...
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