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TELUS Handling Their Business – Raise 2012 Revenue Forecast
0By: Kuljit Grewal | August 4th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Vancouver based telco TELUS Corp. have made a habit of keeping their customers happy and it seems to be bearing fruit. The company, which provides wireless, internet and television services Canada-wide have achieved their highest customer retention rate ever, indicating their users’ overall service satisfaction. A measure, known as ch...
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Canadian Social Dining Start-up The Social Feed Gets Gobbled Up by Grubwithus
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 4th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Social dining and the start-ups that spawn it represent a fantastic way to socialize and network over one of the world’s great equalizers – delicious food. Venice, California based Grubwithus, who manage a social dining network in the Bay Area, have decided to expand their...
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Ottawa’s Wi-Lan Has a Less Than Favourable Quarter
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 3rd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Publically traded patent licensing company Wi-LAN Inc. (WIN) reported a Q2 net loss of 100,000 (USD), amounting to less than one cent per share. The loss was a result of a myriad of things, including a $2.5 million year over year in expenses related to patent litigation. Other unexpected costs...
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US Ride Sharing App Ridejoy to Launch in Canada
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 3rd, 2012 | Mobile Apps, O Canada
This great nation of ours is incredible for innumerable reasons, There is always room to add to that list. It seems that Canada also presents a great launch site for mobile applications that are intended for the US due a much more manageable populace. San Francisco based ride sharing company Ridejoy have done just that, launching their iPhone applicat...
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RIM is Considering Licensing the BB10 Platform
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 2nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Moribund smartphone manufacturer RIM, who gained prominence and fame due to their hardware devices, might be considering licensing their upcoming BlackBerry 10 (BB10) platform in order to gain back some of its lost market share. According to a Daily Te...
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CONFIRMED: RIM’s LTE PlayBook to Launch Nation Wide on August 9
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 2nd, 2012 | News, O Canada, Tablets
According to RIM’s official blog; Inside BlackBerry, the Waterloo-based company will be releasing their latest tablet, the LTE PlayBook on August 9. Canada will be the first country to get their hands on the 32 GB device which features much faster processing and download speeds than its predecessors. The L...
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Canadian Firm 20-20 Technologies Acquired by Vector Capital Corp. for $77 Million
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 1st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Montreal based 20-20 Technologies Inc. has been acquired by San Francisco private equity firm Vector Capital Corp. The acquisition is valued at $4 per share or $77 million overall. The company specializes in world class software for computer-aided interior design and furniture manufacturing. The overall acqu...
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Corus Linking Up With Rogers, Shaw and CBC for Online Ad Revenue
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 1st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
An alliance known as the Canadian Premium Audience Exchange (CPAX) has been forged between some of Canada’s largest broadcasting companies. Toronto’s Corus Entertainment Inc. has buddied up with Rogers Communications Inc., Shaw Communications Inc. the ...
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Canadian Entrepreneur Accuses Twitter of Hijacking His Concept
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 31st, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Howard Lindzon, the founder of StockTwits, a service that organizes investment information from Twitter has got a major bone to pick with Twitter. The company, which deploys “cashtags” – hashtag style metadata tags that begin with the “$” symbol rather than the h...
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HootSuite Adds Evernote, Storify and Zendesk to Their App Directory
By: Kuljit Grewal | July 31st, 2012 | Business, O Canada, Social Media
Vancouver’s dashboard style social media management company HootSuite have added some firepower to their service. Having introduced an app directory featuring plugins that work to enhance the dashboard experience for their nearly 5 million customers in late 2011, the company has now integrated three notable third party applications to their repertoire. All of the aforementioned plugins are fr...
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