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Oracle Purchases Cloud Marketing Application Developer Eloqua For $871 million
0By: Talha Bhatti | December 21st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
U.S. based software developer Oracle has bought cloud-based marketing application maker Eloqua for $871 million. The deal was announced on December 20 and will pay $23.50 a share (a 31.1 percent premium) on the Toronto founded Eloqua to acquire the firm. Oracle announced that the c...
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Atlantic Canada Regional Venture Fund Gets $10 Million From BDC Venture Capital
By: Talha Bhatti | December 21st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On December 20, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) Venture Capital committed $10 million to the Atlantic Canada Regional Venture Fund. This new addition from BDC makes the total amount for the fund a healthy $50 million. Located in Halifax, the Atlantic Canada Regional Venture Fund ...
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Twitter Launches Version 4 of its Blackberry App, Boasts New Features and Refined UI
By: Ali Raza | December 20th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
In spite of the fact that the Blackberry 10 launch is not too far away now, Twitter still launched an updated version of its app for current Blackberry devices. This latest version, number 4 for Twitter’s Blackberry app includes several brand new features. As far as old features are concerned, Twitter has made them more simple, as for instance, the UI is more straightforward in this...
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Rogers Opens Pre-Orders of Blackberry 10 for its Current Customers
By: Ali Raza | December 19th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
It seems that as the release date of Research In Motion Ltd.'s upcoming Blackberry 10 is drawing near, the handsets and platform are gaining an increasing amount of lime light. Ofttimes the forthcoming smartphone grasps headlines because of of a photo leak and other times because of its features and traits. However, this time around, BlackBerry 10 has gained headlines because one of t...
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RIM Begins “Beta Testing” Blackberry 10 by Offering Free Handsets and Software to 120 Companies
By: Jeff Stewart | December 19th, 2012 | Android, iOS, News, O Canada, Smartphones
There is still plenty of time left before the launch of Research In Motion(RIM)'s flagship operating system, Blackberry 10 as it is slated for a January 30 global release. However, the company has announced on Monday that they had started “beta testing” their latest offering thereby allowing 120 government departments and enterprise companies to test their upcoming BB10 smartphones. ...
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U.S. Agency Gives RIM One More Chance to Keep its Contract, Will Test Run Blackberry 10 Platform
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Earlier this year things did not seems to be going in favour of Canada’s very own Blackberry maker Research In Motion (RIM), as the pace of losing its consumers to both Android and iOS powered devices got faster and its shares price in stock exchanges also plunged down pretty swiftly and eventually hit the single digit mark. To add i...
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Virgin Mobile Says HTC 8S “has been flying off the shelves”
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
It seems that Canadians were impatiently awaiting the release of the HTC Windows Phone 8S because in spite of the fact that Virgin Mobile has launched this latest device without any contract terms, consumers are still finding its offering too good to pass up. In fact, Canadians find the HTC Windows Phone 8S so ...
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Influitive Gets $7.3 million In Series A Funding Round
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Toronto startup Influitive has recently closed on a Series A funding round of $7.3 million that was spearheaded by Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures. The round also featured investors that already had a ...
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RIM Planning Global Launch Party For BlackBerry 10 On January 30, 2013
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion is gearing up for an all out bash to inaugurate BlackBerry 10 and the Waterloo-based technology giant has confirmed that BB10 launch parties will be held in different cities around the world on January 30th, 2013. The lucky metropolises that get to enjoy the BB10 launch events include New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, Johann...
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Nasdaq 100 Adds Facebook, Bids Farewell to Netflix and Research In Motion
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Recent announcements from Nasdaq revealed that famous social networking website, Facebook has now marched into the Top 100 list of its index. With team Zuckerberg’s ascent, several other well-known tech companies had to bow out from the prestigious line-up. Facebook made its way in the Nasdaq 100 during last week and for t...
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