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Facebook’s “Want” Button Being Tested On Seven E-Commerce Sites
0By: Kevin Green | October 16th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
Last week Facebook announced that it would start testing out its new “Want” button. The concept is similar to the “Like” button but is an attempt by the social network to make a push into the e-commerce marketplace. The company announced that seven retailers were selected to help in the initial test of the new services. Confirmed test...
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Twitter Expand Global Footprint with New Office in Korea
By: Jeff Stewart | October 16th, 2012 | News, Social Media
Considering the strong growth in the number of Twitter users in Korea, the American micro blogging site has big plans for its brand new office in the country. Vice President of Marketing Development for the Asia-Pacific region for Twitter, James Kondo, laid down Twitter's plans in a press conference late last week. According to detai...
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Streaming Music Start-up Rdio Bring Their Revolutionary “Rdio Artist Program” to Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
At the beginning of this month, digital music service Rdio announced the start of its Rdio Artist Program. The start-up claimed that the unique program "could change the face of digital music as we know it" because it allowed artists to make ...
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Gmail Messages Become Searchable With Google’s Main Search Engine
By: Kevin Green | October 11th, 2012 | Google, News, Social Media
Google is always looking at ways to integrate its many services and products to create a better experience for its users. The California based technology company revealed on October 10 that it was working on a new feature that would link up the company’s major search engine and its popular web based email service. According to Google, its sear...
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FREE! Jay-Z Will Broadcast His Sold Out Barclay’s Concert Tonight on His New YouTube Channel
By: Kuljit Grewal | October 6th, 2012 | Living, News, Social Media
Fans of Hova rejoice. Brooklyn’s native son Sean Carter will be streaming his October 6, 2012 show at the newly built Barclay’s Center in New York. Glorious live streaming coverage of the event will begin at 9:30 pm tonight. This particular show marks the final night of an eight show series created to promote the newly minted stadiu...
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Canadian Use Social Media To Help Missing Children Society of Canada
By: Talha Bhatti | October 5th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Social Media
The Missing Children Society of Canada (MCSC) has embraced modern technologies to create new ways to help Canadian communities search and find missing children across the country. The MCSC has developed numerous innovative tool to help in the search for missing children through individual engagement tools. The work of the organizatio...
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Facebook Introduces New Feature for Users to Send Gifts to One Another in the Real World
By: Kuljit Grewal | October 3rd, 2012 | Business, Living, News, Social Media
With Facebook’s post IPO acquisition of social gifting app Karma the general consensus was that the social network would eventually integrate the ability send paid gifts to one another in the real world. That day has finally arrived, with the company announci...
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Canadian Startup OneLobby Raises $500,000 To Bolster Its Event Management Services
By: Kevin Green | October 2nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Late last month, Entervestor reported that Fredericton-based startup OneLobby has received funding of $500,000 to go along with a renewed company focus. The Canadian start-up last appeared in the news in July when it was made public that Brian Dunphy had left
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Quebec City’s Crowdbase Gets $650,000 in Funding
By: Kevin Green | October 2nd, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Canadian startup, Crowdbase, made public late last month that it had successful gained $650,000 in funding. The cash injection for the knowledge management company came from venture capitalist firms Real Venture, iNova Capital and angel investor Martin-Luc Archambault. Crowd...
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SocialFollows Aims To Make Social Media Dashboard Intuitive
By: Talha Bhatti | September 28th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Social Media
Social networks and other social platforms have become a major focus of marketers and companies looking to get in touch with customers. However, dealing with many different platforms and accounts can be a confusing task for companies of any size. The fact that each social website also has its own interface and content system, updating even a few accounts can become troublesome. Several start ups h...
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