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TELUS and The Globe and Mail today announced the launch of The Challenge, the 3^rd annual contest inviting Canadian small and medium-sized business owners to present their biggest business challenge for the opportunity to win a $100,000 grant from TELUS. Entrepreneurs across Canada are invited to submit entries at online and will be judged by a panel that includes entrepreneurs and business experts. Read the rest of this entry »

Note: Empathica is now InMoment. Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions provider Empathica Inc. has announced the hiring of Brandi Smith as Director of Marketing. In her new role, Smith is responsible for developing and executing global marketing programs to enrich pipeline growth and streamline sales for the company. Read the rest of this entry »

RewardStream, a Vancouver-based provider of loyalty and referral marketing solutions for some of the world’s largest brands, is pleased to announce that its Lifecycle Marketing Platform™ (LMP) is now available for license. LMP has historically been offered solely in a SaaS model and is now directly available for license to brands, marketing solution providers and loyalty processors who specialize in the delivery of loyalty, reward, incentive, and engagement programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Businesses looking to top the results on Facebook Graph Search need to focus on upping their “Likes”, “Check-ins” and exert a greater control over their business information in Facebook, according a new study by Mediative, a leading digital marketing company and division of Yellow Pages Group. Graph Search is Facebook’s newest approach to structured search, generating results on a given query exclusively from a person’s network of Facebook connections. Read the rest of this entry »

Rocket Builders has released its eleventh annual “Ready to Rocket” lists of British Columbia technology companies that are best positioned to capitalize on the 2012 technology sector trends that will lead them to faster growth than their peers. Rocket Builders also released results from its 2012 lists, with 2 companies being acquired and 3 companies graduating from future consideration having achieved greater than $20 million in revenue. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent evidence shows Canada faces increased cyber threats both from within and abroad. But is the country prepared to protect itself and what will this protection look like? In a report (PDF) published yesterday by The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, author Ron Deibert argues that Canada has potential to be a global leader in cyber security, but this opportunity is being squandered because of the lack of a clear strategy in this area.  Read the rest of this entry »

On March 15, 2013, BCIC New Ventures invites you to play a role in building on the strengths of the tech industry in BC and creating a healthy technology community. Contribute to A Dialogue: Building and Sustaining BC’s Technology Ecosystem and win a free ticket to the GROW Conference (Aug 14-16) which will be given out to the event. But what is it? A Dialogue is an opportunity for tech companies to be heard by key decision makers including community builders, CEOs, venture capitalists and members of BC Government who together, are making BC a great place to start and grow technology companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Social media management system developer HootSuite has appointed Dee Anna McPherson as Vice President of Marketing. McPherson, a marketer with experience in social media and the freemium business model, will lead HootSuite’s marketing team, driving strategy and international expansion for the rapidly growing company. Most recently, McPherson was Vice President of Marketing at Yammer, one of HootSuite’s App Directory integration partners, where she established Enterprise Social Networking as a new category of business software and helped propel Yammer to a leading market position, 300% annual growth and a $1.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft. HootSuite saw McPherson as a natural fit for the role. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management  developer OpenText™ has unveiled OpenText SecureiX, its newest Cloud Services offering designed to let organizations exchange messages and information in a trusted, integrated and collaborative cloud environment. OpenText SecureiX is the first of a new generation of Information Exchange solutions that aims to fulfill the vision of exchanging any information in any format on any device. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has announced a multi-year merchandising and licensing representation deal with Russian agent Icon Promotions. Icon Promotions will represent DHX Media’s popular kids TV series Animal Mechanicals, Johnny Test and the Richard Scarry collection, which includes Vintage Richard Scarry and Hurray For Huckle, at the Russian Licensing Forum in Moscow March 13-15.  Hurray for Huckle currently airs on local broadcaster Carousel, Channel 1, while Johnny Test is broadcast on Cartoon Network Russia. Russian SVOD provider TVZOR also carries a host of DHX Media favorites. Read the rest of this entry »