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Is it your turn to go for a ‘Timmy Run’ today?  Ever go through the drive-thru, only to swipe your Tim Card^® and realize that you forgot to reload? Relief is here. Tim Hortons‘ newly upgraded mobile application, TimmyMe, brings the previously web-based TimmyRun™ and Tim Card reload functions together on your mobile device, simplifying the coffee run. Tim Card reload ensures guests never run on empty. TimmyMe now allows users to set a registered Tim Card’s reload frequency, check their Tim Card balance and give their cards a nickname directly on their mobile device. Read the rest of this entry »

Spin Master Games is thrilled to announce it is the #3 Games Manufacturer in Annual 2012 according to The NPD Group* and has recently acquired the worldwide rights to Perplexus™. Spin Master Games has seen remarkable growth over the last year. The launch of the new kids game Fibber™ in Fall 2012 was extremely successful and was #1 dollar growth games property in Q4 2012 according to NPD and was nominated for Game of the Year by the Toy Industry Association. Popular games, Hedbanz™ and Logo™, continued to be top sellers, Logo™ being the #1 in family games and Hedbanz™ is the #1 children’s game, according to NPD in 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a recent RBC small business survey, only 46 per cent of Canadian small businesses have a dedicated website, and less than half (48 per cent) of those businesses say they sell their products and services through their websites. In fact, 56 per cent of the entrepreneurs in the survey rate finding and keeping clients as one of the top business challenges that they will face over the next year, yet only 41 per cent of those surveyed promote their business using a dedicated website. Read the rest of this entry »

Destiny Media Technologies has announced that, beginning next week, the company will be offering Clipstream® for sale to the market research industry as the first customer vertical.  Unlike other solutions such as Flash, WebM and H.264 which have limited security, Clipstream® will enable customers to watermark and lock content to authorized URL’s and restrict playback to authorized viewers.  This will enable them to offer video questionnaires to test market movie trailers, commercials and new products without fear those videos will appear on the Internet after the videos are removed. Read the rest of this entry »

Research And Markets has added The Global Video Game Market 2011 – 2015 report by TechNavio to its offerings, with prices starting at $ 1500.00 USD. TechNavio’s analysts forecast the Global Video Game market to grow at a CAGR of 7.27 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the increasing parental acceptance of video games in emerging countries. The Global Video Game market has also been witnessing the increase in the development of video games based on popular characters and movies. However, the increasing piracy of video games could pose a challenge to the growth of this market. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile game publisher EA Chillingo and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. have announced a partnership to fuel the mobile games developer community and provide unparalleled revenue opportunities. Spearheaded by Chillingo founders, Chris Byatte and Joe Wee, “100% Indie” aims to inspire, foster and support indie developers around the world. Starting on March 4, developers can visit the site and submit their games for consideration to Samsung’s mobile apps marketplace, Samsung Apps. Read the rest of this entry »

Comic Action Camera – Halftone is now the talk of the town in the iPhone user community across the globe. This $1.99 USD state of the art iOS application was developed recently by Vancouver based app developers CobbySoft Media Inc. and has received more than 500,000 downloads already within almost no time. Comic Action Camera – Halftone is an excellent cartoon camera app created specifically for iPhone, iPad, and iPod users. Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Brian Emmett joins Imagine Canada in the unique role of chief economist for the charitable and nonprofit sector. Tasked with measuring the impact of the sector and bringing economic issues facing charities and nonprofits to the forefront of public policy decision makers, Mr. Emmett will analyze and provide advice about related policies, programs and legislation. Read the rest of this entry »

Fifty Canadian companies are being recognized today as the 2012 winners of Canada’s Best Managed Companies program for having demonstrated outstanding business performance and innovative management. Growth was at the top of the agenda for Canada’s Best Managed Companies in 2012. Best Managed winners made strategic investments in their companies, platforms, their systems and in their people and in turn, revenue and income grew substantially. Best Managed winners’ revenue grew by 14% to approximately $5.4 billion and more impressively, income grew by approximately 24%. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom has announced that ‘Age of Conan’ and ‘The Secret World’ veteran designer Joel Bylos has stepped up to take the creative leadership of the company’s newly formed, centralized live team. The dedicated live team is made up by some of the most skilled and experienced developers working at Funcom and is entirely focused on expanding, enhancing and supporting company’s three live games, ‘The Secret World’, ‘Age of Conan’ and‘Anarchy Online’.   Read the rest of this entry »