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Best Buy Canada and Future Shop have revised their price match and return policies in response to the changing nature of retail in Canada and commitment to customer service. Both companies are thrilled to launch Price Beat Promise, a guarantee to customers that Best Buy Canada and Future Shop are the destinations with the lowest prices across the country. If a competitor online or in-store has an item selling for less, the companies will beat it by 10 per cent of the difference, for up to 30 days. Read the rest of this entry »

Innovative motion technology company D-BOX Technologies Inc. has announced an agreement to install its immersive motion technology with ODEON, one of the largest cinema exhibitors in the U.K. The ODEON Liverpool ONE in Liverpool will offer 30 or so D-BOX MFX System starting July 20^th in its screen 3, opening with the release of Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knight Rises. Read the rest of this entry »

The British Columbia Securities Commission is warning the public about Master Benefit Card Canada Ltd. (Master Benefit Card) and its affiliates. Master Benefit Card is also known as “Benefit Club”. The BCSC has reports that residents of British Columbia have been approached to join Master Benefit Card’s “membership club” and invest in a variety of “Benefit Options” or “Benefit Cards”. Read the rest of this entry »

Wildeboer Dellelce LLP is pleased to announce that it will act as one of three legal services firms to provide mentorship and legal advisory services to participant companies in Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE program. Communitech is set to launch its HYPERDRIVE program, a high octane start-up incubator, with a slate of seven ready for prime time start-ups, later this month. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile social game and platform developer GREE has announced plans to establish a new game development studio in Vancouver. The new studio will be focused on creating new and unique free-to-play gaming experiences for mobile gamers worldwide. GREE’s Canadian studio will be headed-up by Steve Lin, a technology industry veteran and renowned retro game collector. Mr. Lin most recently served as GREE International, Inc.’s VP of Consumer Operations and coordinated the establishment of GREE’s San Francisco studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Top Hat Monocle, a mobile-based education platform that enables student engagement, today announced it has completed Series A financing. The $8 million round is led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners. Read the rest of this entry »

Bell Media commends the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ruling supporting the balanced, pro-consumer carriage arrangement Bell Media offered to the Canadian Independent Distributors Group (CIDG). The CRTC’s precedent-setting endorsement of Bell Media’s final offer, with its innovative flexible-pricing model, confirms Canadians will continue to have access to one of the largest selections of television channels available in the world, at some of the lowest costs in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Monitoring conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region; observation of the drought crisis across the horn of Africa; continued evaluation of Haiti’s earthquake response. It is conflict regions like these that Vancouver-based UrtheCast has agreed to image in support of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). Read the rest of this entry »

Today, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) announced that the Local Programming Improvement Fund will be phased out by August 31, 2014. The contribution to the Fund will be gradually reduced until it is discontinued. As a result, the charge many cable and satellite companies have passed through to their customers will be removed from their bills. Read the rest of this entry »

SHOP.CA announced today that it will partner with AOL Canada to bring the news of great Canadian shopping to the public using creative media content, bringing to life advertising, shopping news and updates through the innovative digital properties of AOL. Read the rest of this entry »