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Influitive Gets $7.3 million In Series A Funding Round
0By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Social Media
Toronto startup Influitive has recently closed on a Series A funding round of $7.3 million that was spearheaded by Hummer Winblad and Relay Ventures. The round also featured investors that already had a ...
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Instagram Gets New Privacy Policy That Hints At Data Sharing With Facebook
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, Social Media
Once Facebook bought Instagram many expected the world’s largest social network to start making changes to its new acquisition right away. Facebook took its time and has slowly started placing its stamp on the mobile photo-sharing social network. One of the latest updates is to the privacy policy of
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RIM Planning Global Launch Party For BlackBerry 10 On January 30, 2013
By: Kevin Green | December 18th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion is gearing up for an all out bash to inaugurate BlackBerry 10 and the Waterloo-based technology giant has confirmed that BB10 launch parties will be held in different cities around the world on January 30th, 2013. The lucky metropolises that get to enjoy the BB10 launch events include New York City, Toronto, London, Paris, Johann...
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Is Twitter Gearing Up to Release its Own Edition of Open Graph?
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | News, Social Media
It looks like Twitter is all geared up to make a similar move to that of rival firm, Facebook, with a source revealing that the micro-blogging website is about to release its very own edition of an Open Graph style API. The move would allow third party app developers to draw information from non-human elements of a social website such as photos, apps and e...
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Fit Brains Launches Trainer App for iOS Users to Train Their Minds on the Move
By: Ali Raza | December 18th, 2012 | Games, iOS, News, Smartphones, Tablets
To facilitate and benefit those who do not have much time to give their minds a good workout, Vancouver based Fit Brains has released a Trainer app for iOS devices. This app will provide a stimulating workout to the minds of iPhone and iPad users so that they can experience cognitive training in a gamified manner while they are on the move. ...
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Google Maps Unveils Images of Earth Illuminated at Night Thanks to NASA’s “Black Marble”
By: Ali Raza | December 17th, 2012 | Google, News
You may have come across numerous images of earth that have been taken from space spanning different hours of the day, but for the first time Google Maps is offering spectacular images of our wonderful planet after sunset. The effects are an absolutely stunning display which shows how the flickering lights of our world look to observers from...
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Nasdaq 100 Adds Facebook, Bids Farewell to Netflix and Research In Motion
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Apple, Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Recent announcements from Nasdaq revealed that famous social networking website, Facebook has now marched into the Top 100 list of its index. With team Zuckerberg’s ascent, several other well-known tech companies had to bow out from the prestigious line-up. Facebook made its way in the Nasdaq 100 during last week and for t...
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Facebook Confirms it is Planning to Monetize Instagram
By: Jeff Stewart | December 17th, 2012 | Business, News, Social Media
When Facebook acquired Instagram earlier this year, many people failed to understand the connection (not to mention the price paid), as they wondered how the move would enhance or change the social network. Now, after several months since the acquisition, tech observers are now sure of one thing; that Facebook...
