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Communitech‘s HyperDrive startup incubator has opened applications for its third cohort amid news that Incentivibe, a first-cohort HyperDrive company, has been acquired by Rebellion Media of Waterloo. Since its creation a year ago, HyperDrive has admitted 18 companies to the first two cohorts of its $30-million-plus program based at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener. These companies have created more than 70 jobs, raised more than $2.5 million in investment and generated more than $500,000 in revenue. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™ announced earlier today that it has received a 2013 SAP® Pinnacle award as a Solution Extension Partner of the Year. SAP Pinnacle awards are presented annually to the top SAP partners that have excelled in developing and growing their partnership with SAP and driving customer success. Finalists and winners in 19 categories were based on field recommendations, customer feedback and performance indicators in the following four categories: co-innovation, market expansion, service delivery and sustainability. Read the rest of this entry »

Two-time Emmy award recipient Toon Boom Animation Inc. has announced that HeARTBIT Digital Creation, one of Japan’s promising animation studios, has signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing their intention to use the Toon Boom pipeline, namely Toon Boom^® Storyboard Pro™ and Harmony™, in their upcoming production titled Francesca, which is based on a highly popular Manga icon, which has already ramped up a great fan base on Facebook and YouTube. Read the rest of this entry »

Ortsbo, Inc., an innovator in real-time, cross-language communication experiences, announces a partnership with Digital Development Management (DDM), a Massachusetts-based consultancy and agency for video games and digital entertainment, to offer game developers and publishers the Ortsbo platform that enables cost effective in-game, real-time communication language transformation. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. has announced that it has completed its previously announced rights offering of unsecured convertible debentures (“Debentures”) for aggregate gross proceeds of $4,726,000 (the “Rights Offering”). Concurrent with the Rights Offering, Rainmaker also issued an aggregate of $425,000 principal amount of Debentures pursuant to its previously announced private placement (the “Private Placement”). Read the rest of this entry »

Bulb Television, a new Canadian Category B licensed television service, announces that it is the first channel in North America to announce plans of a 4000 pixel feed. Bulb TV has been transmitting a 4000 pixel feed for internal testing purposes over the last several weeks and will be releasing the signal in 4000 pixel, 1080 HD and standard definition formats upon its launch scheduled for next month. This new format, recently brought into the public eye this week at the National Association of Broadcasters Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada is approximately four times the amount of pixels of a typical 1080 High Definition signal. Bulb Television is also the first to announce its plans to launch an 8000 pixel version of the channel when technology permits, ideally as soon Fall 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

Communities throughout British Columbia can take advantage of a new suite of online tools and resources to help them strengthen and diversify their local economies. If you support economic activity for your community – a local government or First Nation – the Business Attraction Toolkit can help attract potential new businesses and investors from across Canada and around the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Klipfolio Inc has announced a new partnership with Direction Digital, Australian-based digital marketing consultants. This partnership combines Direction Digital’s consulting and analytics expertise with Klipfolio’s web-based dashboard to provide clients with actionable insights. In an increasingly fragmented landscape, deriving value from analytics requires a careful balance of using the right data sources, measuring the right metrics, and communicating information in the right way. Read the rest of this entry »

Emily Carr University of Art + Design and the CUPE Local 15 support staff have reached a tentative agreement under the 2012 Cooperative Gains Mandate, Minister of Finance Michael de Jong announced today. The two-year agreement provides for modest wage increases funded from savings found within existing budgets, as required under the 2012 Cooperative Gains Mandate. This agreement covers about 160 staff working in a variety of positions ranging from information technology, administration, studio and library technicians, facilities and other services that support students and the institutions. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute® Software Corporation, the industry standard for persistent endpoint security and management solutions for computers, laptops and ultra-portable devices announced today it has been issued patent No. 8,418,226, dated April 9, 2013, by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a persistent servicing agent. Read the rest of this entry »