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Private digital video network SourceKnowledge has announced the hiring of Stuart MacDougall as its Chief Technology Officer. An expert in web application development, Mr. MacDougall was previously Manager, Web Development at loyalty-rewards management company Aeroplan. Stuart led a team of twelve developers responsible for Aeroplan.com and has over fifteen years of experience managing large scale web development projects. Read the rest of this entry »

WIDEawake Liberty Studios is Bankrupt and is now closed forever.  Located in downtown Toronto, WIDEawake Studios provided over 6,000 square feet of state-of-the-art multi-media production capabilities that surpassed every other production facility of its kind in the area. Since 2006, the WIDEawake environment furnished musicians, producers, filmmakers, editors and all people involved in media and entertainment with a complete resource for all of their audio and video production requirements. Read the rest of this entry »

The first Canadian Connecting Bloggers and Brands Conference will be held in Vancouver on April 30th from 10am – 4pm, bringing bloggers and national brands together face-to-face so they can learn about how they can work together. It is the first of a six-city, cross-Canada 2013 tour. This year, the free conferences will focus on introducing the business of blogging to those new to the digital media world. Active bloggers will get to meet with some of the largest Canadian brands they might write about, while those brands will get to hear about what interests bloggers active in their industries. Attendees will get valuable time to build relationships with representatives from the conference’s title sponsor, TELUS, as well as other sponsors including Canada Beef Inc, and Chicken Farmers of Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Loyalty and referral marketing platform solutions RewardStream has announced that James Christensen, a loyalty and marketing technology expert, joined the executive management team in January 2013. As EVP Business Development and Sales, Christensen is responsible for leading strategic growth initiatives for the company’s core products, including the company’s referral marketing solution, Spark™ and the company’s loyalty marketing platform, LMP™. Read the rest of this entry »

Sage North America announced today the results of its mobile survey, which recently polled 476 small and midsized businesses in Canada. The Sage SMB Survey on Mobile Devices (PDF) showed that Canadian business owners find the use of mobile technology to have a positive effect on their company’s productivity. Eighty-three per cent of respondents said that mobile technology has had a positive effect on their businesses, while just one per cent found mobile technology has negatively impacted their business. Moreover, 78 per cent of respondents are using devices to access work-related information. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Gordon O’Connor, Member of Parliament for Carleton – Mississippi Mills, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today announced Government of Canada investments of up to $3.67 million to support six start-up technology development companies in the Ottawa area. Read the rest of this entry »

Independent video game studio Behaviour Interactive has announced that former Funcom Games Canada‘s CEO Migüel Caron has joined the company as Head of Studio–Online. In his new role at Behaviour, Mr. Caron will be responsible for the performance and growth of the company’s Online Studio. He will spearhead the production of both original and licensed online games in order to create growth and bolster this new market for Behaviour. Read the rest of this entry »

IAB Canada has announced the second in a series of reports, compiled by two respected, longstanding IAB Canada Member companies, addressing Competitive Online Advertising Trends in Canada. Prepared by comScore and Kantar Media, in partnership with IAB Canada, these reports are fueled by the two companies’ extensive Canadian paid display advertising tracking databases. The two new reports consist of 2012 year-end top-lines of key display advertising trends for several leading categories. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday, March 15, Corus Entertainment Inc. received clearance from the Competition Bureau, with the issuance of the appropriate no action letter, to proceed with the transactions between Corus and Bell.  Pursuant to these transactions, Corus will acquire the 50% remaining ownership interest in TELETOON which includes the services TELETOON, Télétoon (French), TELETOON Retro, Télétoon Rétro (French) and Cartoon Network (Canada), as well as the 50% ownership interests in the French-language specialty channels, Historia and Séries+, that Bell will acquire as part of the acquisition of Astral Media Inc. Read the rest of this entry »

If Canada wants to cultivate more sustainable and successful startups, everyone from elementary school math teachers to government-level business support services needs to re-think how financial literacy is being delivered and supported, experts told Startup Canada at an event earlier this month. Hosted in partnership with Intuit Canada and other business sector leaders, Bridging the Financial Literacy Gap was inspired by a recent study by Intuit Canada that revealed 83 per cent of Canadian small business owners have a basic or lower grasp of financial fundamentals. Read the rest of this entry »