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Khosla Ventures Leads $6.5 million Series A funding Round For Ginger.io
0By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, Health, Mobile Apps, News
Ginger.io, a startup that deals with behavioral health analytics, has made public that it has received $6.5 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures on November 28. Other participants in the round included seed investors True Ventures and
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Ontario Looking At Ways To Make Crowdfunding Legal
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
On November 29, The Globe and mail reported that the government of Ontario is looking at ways to make their strict crowdfunding laws more flexible. Current Canadian rules make crowdsourcing, a new and quickly growing method of gaining funding for ventures, illegal in the country. At the front of this drive to loosen restriction is former Premier Dalton McGuinty who is very optimistic about the pos...
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RIM Reveals Key News At BlackBerry Jam Asia
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | News, O Canada, Smartphones
Research In Motion share prices took a slight downward turn after a good run of several weeks due to optimism about the Canadian firms upcoming mobile operating system BlackBerry 10 and its revamped smartphones. The trouble firm has seen its market share drop heavily in North America and also in other parts of the world as competitors like Apple an...
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Microsoft Gives The Partners In Learning Project Another $250 million
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, News
On November 29, Microsoft announced that its Partners In Learning Project will be given another $250 million. The program is a worldwide initiative that gives teachers professional development opportunities. Since the sponsor is Microso...
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Popular Kickstarter Project Twine Ready For Sale
By: Kevin Green | November 30th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Living, News
Twine got its start two years ago thanks to the imagination of two MIT Media Lab graduates, John Kestner and David Carr. The duo were able to raise $500,000 on crowdsourcing site Kickstarter for their device which promised to make any item in the house an inte...
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Quebecor Inc. Will Introduce a Metered Paywall System for its Group Websites from December 4, 2012
By: Jeff Stewart | November 30th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Quebecor Inc.’s newspaper division announced that from December 4, 2012 their online visitors to the Calgary, Winnipeg Sun, Ottawa, Edmonton and Toronto websites will be greeted by a metered paywall. This means that the visitors will now have to pay money to view the content on this group’s websites. This ch...
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Raspberry Pi Unveils Prototype of its Forthcoming Camera and Minecraft Pi Edition
By: Ali Raza | November 30th, 2012 | Gadgets, Games, News
The Raspberry Pi has recently unveiled its forthcoming camera board, which they will make available for sale in 2013. The price of this latest product will be around $25 in line with the extremely cost effective device. This 5 megapixel camera from Raspberry Pi h...
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Google Set to Launch its First Ever Chrome Based Touch Laptop by the End of This Year
By: Ali Raza | November 30th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Google, News
It seems that Microsoft is becoming a source of inspiration for companies looking to produce their own hardware for other corporations in the IT industry. According to the latest industry chatter, it seems that Google is all set to join the race of making slates and laptops by producing its very own touch laptop. ...
