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HouseTrip.com Grabs $40 million In Series C Funding From Accel Partners
0By: Kevin Green | October 13th, 2012 | Business, Living, News
London based start-up, HouseTrip.com, has recently gone through a Series C funding round and has walked away with $40 million thanks to new investor Accel Partners. The previous investors in the business, Index Ventures
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NYU Doctoral Student Showcases Hand Gesture Technology For Touch Screen Authentication
By: Kevin Green | October 13th, 2012 | Gadgets, Mobile Apps, News, Smartphones, Tablets
A Polytechnic Institute of New York University researcher, Napa Sae-Bae, has been studying ways to utilize a person’s hand gestures and swipes on a touch sreen device to authenticate user access. Sae-Bae’s work should enable devices to secure their data and the physical device itself by recognizing authorized users swipes thanks to their uniq...
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Canada’s Top 100 Employer Awards Given To TELUS And SaskTel
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
The “Canada’s Top 100 Employers” list was recently revealed and from all the players in the Canadian mobile industry only TELUS and SaskTel managed to make the cut. Major firms like Rogers, Bell, and Res...
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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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Report Indicates That 60% Of iPhone Owners In Canada and US Have Upgraded To iOS 6
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Apple, iOS, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Apple has a hit on its hands with the new iPhone 5 and iOS 6 tandem. The hardware and software were released at about the same time and have taken the market in the US and Canada by storm. Reports indicates that after two weeks of being available for download, 60% of iPhone users in the U.S. and Canada updated their devices to iOS 6. The positive...
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Canadian Twitter Users Upbeat About the Future of Research In Motion
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Canada based maker of BlackBerry smartphones, Research in Motion (RIM), has been in the news a lot lately and most of the headlines have been pointing at the upcoming release of the company’s new BlackBerry 10 operating system. RIM gave the world a glimpse of the BB10 at their developer’s conference called Blackberry Jam 2012. The presentatio...
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Canadian Accelerator Extreme Startups Takes On Five New Companies
By: Ali Raza | October 12th, 2012 | Business, Mobile Apps, News, O Canada
On October 5, 2012 the Toronto-based accelerator, Extreme Startups announced that it had chosen the second batch of companies, five in all, that will be taking part in their start-up accelerator program. In the next couple of months the start-ups will participate in the incubator program and its many prepratory activ...
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Jeff Westeinde and Mayor Jim Watson New Co-Chairs Of Invest Ottawa Board
By: Talha Bhatti | October 12th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Late last week, it was announced that Jeff Westeinde and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson will co-chair the 14-person board of Invest Ottawa. Westeinde is a well known entrepreneur in the area and will take on the leadership of the board that is responsible for economic development in Ottawa. According to Invest Ottawa, the collective “d...
