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RIM Releases Version 3.3 of its Facebook App Featuring Deeper BBM Integration
0By: Kevin Green | December 7th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
As fans of BlackBerry devices wait for Research in Motion (RIM) to release the heavily anticipated BlackBerry 10 platform, the company is hard at work updating apps for its current devices and
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Ford Teams Up With Jimmy Fallon To Develop a Super Bowl Ad Crowd Sourced Through Twitter
By: Kevin Green | December 5th, 2012 | Business, Cars, News, Social Media
American car manufacturer, Ford, has bought the services of late night network comedian Jimmy Fallon to help the firm develop a 60-second Super Bowl advertisement. The ad spot will be for the Lincoln brand of automobiles and will be the result of a crowd sourcing effort. Fans will submit their ideas on Twitter in an attempt by Ford to increase the...
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SEC Filing Reveals Zynga and Facebook Have Brought Major Changes to Their Long Term Agreement
By: Jeff Stewart | December 4th, 2012 | Business, Games, News, Social Media
A recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing has revealed that world renowned social networking website, Facebook and their largest social game service provider, Zynga had decided to bring about major changes to the agreement between them, which both parties signed two years ago. ...
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Cinemagram’s Moving Image Sharing Service Gets $8.5-million In Series A Round
By: Talha Bhatti | December 3rd, 2012 | Business, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian animated photo-sharing startup, Cinemagram, has successfully closed a series A round of funding that netted the Montreal-based firm $8.5-million for its iPhone app. The mobile app is only available for Apple’s iPhone for now and lets users take videos and turn them into animate...
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Halifax based Startup LeadSift Secures $500,000 from OMERS Ventures, Use it for Hiring and Development
By: Jeff Stewart | November 30th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Halifax based startup, LeadSift has successfully secured $500,000 in funding from OMERS Ventures. With this latest investment OMERS Ventures has extended its presence across this great nation of ours. Managing Director of OMERS Ventures, Dere...
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Twitter May Open a Office in Australia as Executives Participate in “Secret” Event
By: Jeff Stewart | November 28th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
After opening its latest office in South Korea, it looks as if micro-blogging website, Twitter is now planning to open its next work place in Australia. According to recent reports, top Twitter executives are flying to Australia, where they will meet with sporting bodies, media organizations and top users of their social media web...
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Facebook Working on Google AdSense Model to Launch its Own External Advertising Agency
By: Jeff Stewart | November 28th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
Google AdSense is widely considered as the best business model when it comes to targeted advertising on the internet, accounting for a significant portion of the search company's bottom line. Thus far no other company has been able to replicate this business model successfully, however it has been learnt through s...
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Instagram Sees 10 Million Posts During U.S. Thanksgiving Weekend
By: Kevin Green | November 26th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Photo sharing social network, Instagram, had a record breaking Thanksgiving this year as the site’s users shared 10 million photos in the US. The peak traffic on the site was at 12:40PM PST when 226 images per second were being shared. Almost 200 photos were being posted every second for several hours on November 22 and broke every record i...
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WhenIWork Builds User Base of 50,000 As it Focuses on Shift Scheduling Solutions for SMB’s
By: Kevin Green | November 26th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Social Media
Based out of Minnesota, employee scheduling service provider WhenIWork, offers small businesses a tool to help in shift scheduling. The services is cloud-based and lets employers schedule works for their staff and communicate with them using multiple platforms including the internet, iOS apps, Android Apps, email and social media. WhenIWork got ...
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Vancouver Convinces Hootsuite To Stay In City With Head-Office Deal
By: Kevin Green | November 26th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has worked out a deal with social-media startup Hootsuite to keep the rapidly expanding company’s head quarters in the Canadian city. On November 22, city officials announced that Hootsuite would purchase a building in Mount Pleasant from the city of Vancouver through a lease-to-own agreement. Mayor Roberts...
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