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Square Now Allows Canadian Companies of Any Size To Accept Credit Card Payment via Mobile Devices
0By: Talha Bhatti | October 25th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
On 24 October, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, will be bringing his new and disruptive start-up, Square, to Canada. Dorsey’s three year old venture is making Canada its first international market after it has taken the American market by storm from its San Francisco based headqua...
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Canadian Remote Database Administrator Pythian Utilizes Global Workforce To Work Around the Clock
By: Talha Bhatti | October 25th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Ottawa based Pythian is a remote database administration company that works around the clock. Although the firm deals with its clients during normal business hours, its staff needs to be ready to take on any business issues that may arise at all hours of the night. Paul Vallée, a co-founder of the company realized that it was getting difficul...
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TELUS Offers 16GB Samsung Galaxy SIII at a Reduced Price
By: Jeff Stewart | October 24th, 2012 | Android, News, O Canada, Smartphones
When Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII, the initial starting price of this new flagship device with 16GB memory was $529. At that time many people did not buy it because they found that Galaxy SIII price point to be too high. Moreover, they would have to pay for the contract separately, which would have cost them at minimum $600...
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Apple’s New iPad Mini Will Ship To Canadian Customers on November 2
By: Kevin Green | October 24th, 2012 | Apple, Business, Gadgets, iOS, O Canada, Tablets
On October 23, Apple launched its much rumored iPad Mini along with a group of other updated products. The 8-inch tablet was the biggest announcements the California based device maker made following the release of the iPhone 5. The latest tablet from Apple now puts itself sq...
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Canada May Gain From Looking at the Government Support of Ireland’s Start-up Sector
By: Kevin Green | October 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
In a recent blog post, Mark Evans, head of ME Consulting, spoke about his visit to the Web Summit conference held in Dublin, Ireland. Evans works with startups and entrepreneurs to fulfill their marketing needs and claims in the post that the Irish start-up scene and the Canadian star...
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Microsoft Launching First Retail Site in Toronto While Also Opening “Pop-up” Stores Across Canada
By: Jeff Stewart | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Tablets
Good news for those of you who reside in Toronto. Microsoft has announced that they will soon open their first ever retail site in Canada (TQ was on it). And for this very purpose, Microsoft has already chosen a spot, the famous Yorkdale Mall which seems to get busier with the passing months. In addition to this, Microsoft is also planning to open “pop-up” stores across Canada ...
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Orascom Takes Over Canadian Wireless Startup Wind Mobile
By: Talha Bhatti | October 23rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Wind Mobile was officially taken over by its foreign financial backers on October 21 as a part of a deal that will create the first fully foreign-owned wireless carrier in Canada. The struggling start-up will also get the advantage of having half a billion dollars worth of interest written off as part of the agreement....
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Canada’s Telecom Watchdog CRTC Issues New Guidelines for Companies
By: Jeff Stewart | October 22nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released two bulletins that feature guidelines for Canadian businesses in an attempt to raise awareness of the anti-spam laws of the country. In announcing the guidelines CRTC said that they expect the legislation to come into force in 2013. ...
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Wi-Lan Inc. Files Law Suit Against Toshiba for Patent Infringement
By: Jeff Stewart | October 22nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Patent rights enable companies, firms and individuals to use specific technologies exclusively, and if someone violates these rights they can take action against them in the court of law. Such legal proceedings are becoming more common with the passage of time, especially within the information and technology industry (see Apple and Samsung he...
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Stripe Connect Aims To Simply Payment Processing Online
By: Kevin Green | October 22nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Stripe, an online payment system developer has launched Stripe Connect as of October 10 to serve as a tool that eliminates as many extra steps as possible to simplify the acceptance of mobile payments for various retailers.. The new system lets e-commerce sites that want to accept online ...
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