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2Dots’ Yworld project gets a $500,000 injection from undisclosed angel investor
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 4th, 2012 | Business, O Canada, Social Media
On August 31, TechVibes revealed that the Canada based start up, 2Dots, got some good news when an angel investor plunked $500,000 into the company’s Yworld network. 2Dots is a “boutique practice facilitating change for individuals, teams and organisations” and has recently launched the Yworld invite-only Alpha. The new network is meant...
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HootSuite Continues to Add to Their App Directory, Bring SocialBro, Videolicious and Others to the Flock
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 30th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
The social media management dashboard and overall solid Canadian company has added more social apps to their ever expanding App Directory. The company, whose haul is now up to 26 apps in all, has added SocialBro, NeedTagger,
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Montreal’s Wajam Earns Three Prestigious Stevie Awards
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 28th, 2012 | iOS, Living, News, O Canada, Social Media
An incredibly forward thinking start-up based out of Montreal, Wajam has gained some serious recognition. The social search engine, which integrates information from your social networks to aid in filtering searches and discovering information, has won three International Business Awards. Popularly known as ‘Stevies...
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Canada’s HootSuite Partners with Twitter for an Advertising Campaign
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 24th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
As Twitter continues its journey of self-discovery and attempts to figure out how to monetize itself without tainting its wonderful user experience, it has enlisted the help of a Canadian friend for its latest move. Twitter is in the process of evolving their API and has renewed their focus to target enterprises.
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HootSuite Adds Microsoft’s Yammer to Their Expanding App Directory
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Vancouver-based social media dashboard HootSuite announced the integration of Yammer into their service via their blog earlier this week. Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft mere months ago and integrated into their upcoming upcoming Office 365 software suite is the leading provider of enterprise social network service. &nbs...
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Where Will Facebook Store its Massive Amounts of Emergency Backup Data? In ‘Sub-Zero’
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 18th, 2012 | News, Social Media
We sincerely believe that Wired magazine and periodical is an absolute pioneer in technology news and education and have been fans of their work for a very long time. They recently posted a piece about Facebook that we wanted to share regarding how the social networking giant plans to store their huge amounts of backup data in a secure and cost-efficient way. ...
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RIM Will Feature Upgraded Contact Management on Their Upcoming BB10 Devices
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 18th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media
It is imperative that Research in Motion (RIM) integrate innovative and function features into their BB10 platform if they have any chance of regaining some of their market share that has opted for the innovative and quality products being offered by Apple and Samsung. &...
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HootSuite is The Social Media Management Platform of Choice for the World’s Top Brands
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 10th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Vancouver based HootSuite, the creators behind the innovative and standard setting social media management dashboard. The company has been able to offer its 5 million plus clients with a means of easily and effectively curating their social media presence for maximal effect. According to a recent survey by
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Canada is Going Mobile for Their Olympic Coverage
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 7th, 2012 | Business, Living, Mobile Apps, O Canada, Smartphones, Social Media, Sports, Tablets
Without question we in Canada are absolutely blessed to be able to enjoy the Olympics in full totality thanks to the resources that technology makes available to us. Mobile devices have literally put full entertainment systems in our hands, allowing us to consume coverage spanning from Twitter to live streaming video. Perhaps there is no greater testament to how much technology can ch...
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Facebook is Testing a ‘Save for Later’ Feature for its Users
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 6th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
The world’s largest social networking website is testing a new feature that will allow its users to save stories and other content that appears on their News Feed and friends’ walls for later consumption.
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