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Canada To Get Microsoft’s Streaming Music Service “Xbox Music” With Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8
0By: Talha Bhatti | October 17th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Microsoft is gearing up for a tremendous marketing blitz as the launch date for Windows 8 approaches. The technology giant has been giving out tid-bits of information as the buildup continues and the latest news is that Canada and 22 other countries around the world that get Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 products can access Xbox Music on Octo...
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Instagram Will Release App for BlackBerry 10
By: Talha Bhatti | October 17th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
CrackBerry reported on October 12 that Instagram will be released for BlackBerry 10. However, there has been no official announcement from Facebook, the owners of the social photo sharing site Instagram. The CrackBerry news release is the exact opposite of what
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RIM CEO Wants Users to Utilize BlackBerry 10 BBM for Mobile Transactions
By: Ali Raza | October 17th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
RIM’s upcoming BlackBerry 10 operating system is creating a tremendous amount of buzz as its expected early 2013 release date approaches. With the introduction still some time away, RIM has been building-up the hype for BlackBerry 10 by highlighting new specs, which include a fresh user interface, a variety of applications, fast processing, the ...
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Government Partnership Looks To Promote Canadian Clean Tech Firms Abroad
By: Talha Bhatti | October 15th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canada has aspirations of becoming a world leader in the clean tech sector and the government is playing its part to promote Canadian firms around the world. The federal government of Ottawa is looking to get a larger piece of the renewable energy and energy efficiency market by supporting companies that are moving towards commercializing their products. The Canadian government’s agencies that d...
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Canada Based Startup TitanFile Secures $1.1 Million Financing
By: Ali Raza | October 15th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
Canada based start-up TitanFile has developed a system that is used for the secure transfer of classified data over various devices. The promising company recently declared that they have secured $1.1 million in financing from several investors to fuel future growth. With this giant leap, TitanFile will soon be available to users, allowing ...
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Frank & Oak Gets $5 Million From Canadian And American Investors
By: Talha Bhatti | October 15th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Montreal based men’s clothing start-up, Frank & Oak, has successfully secured $5 million in funding from Venture Capitalists in Canada and the United States. The first round was led by Lightbank and investors included big names Rho Ventures and Real Ventures Canada. T...
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Canadian Music Aggregator Startup MyMusic.Com Starts With $1 Million Investment Round
By: Kevin Green | October 14th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
MyMusic.com launched out of beta late last week following the reception of a $1 million round of funding last May. The angel investors that gave the music aggregator funding belonged to Ottawa and Toronto and helped the Canadian start up with cash and a high caliber advisory board. MyMusic.com is a music content aggregator that highl...
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Kobo Buys French Self Publishing Company Aquafadas
By: Kevin Green | October 14th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones, Tablets
Canadian e-book seller, Kobo, announced late last week that it had acquired French company Aquafadas but did not give any further details regarding the financial parameters of the deal. The Toronto based Kobo bought Aquafadas so that it could add magazines, comics, and children’s books to...
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Tindr Solutions Inc. Sets Off On Their Own After Splitting From Maplesoft
By: Jeff Stewart | October 14th, 2012 | News, O Canada
Tindr Solutions Inc. provides a wide range of services from strategic project advice to software development and has recently announced that they will be separating form their parent company Maplesoft Group. Originally, Mike Kelland, who was the vice-president of corporate architecture and engi...
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Openera Becomes the “Most Anticipated Early Stage Startup in Canada”
By: Jeff Stewart | October 13th, 2012 | Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
When unprepared Peter Lalonde pitched the idea for his start-up Openera at the Canadian Digital Media Network’s Canada 3.0 conference last April, he never thought his idea would win. The quality of his idea prevailed however, as the entrepreneur ended up winning even though he was a last minute ...
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