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Toronto’s SecureKey Technologies Inc. has announced that, along with key technology partners including Broadcom, a California company with a BC location, that it will be demonstrating a number of mobile payment and identity applications based on its cloud-based authentication service at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, which runs from today through until February 28th. Read the rest of this entry »

Avvasi Inc., a Waterloo-based vendor of QoE-driven video management and monetization solutions, is pleased to announce Telus as the latest wireless service provider to select Avvasi’s Q-VUE^TM video analytics to measure its subscribers’ mobile video experience as 3G, 4G and LTE video demand continues to grow. Read the rest of this entry »

AudienceView has expanded its stronghold in Europe by entering the Dutch market and successfully closing deals with two new clients. The Amsterdam Music Theatre is on schedule for deployment in late February and International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will migrate to AudienceView later this year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Tony Clement, President of the Treasury Board, celebrated International Open Data Day yesterday by participating in a Speed Dating session with Vancouver Open Data developers and city officials. International Open Data Day is a Canadian-inspired event created by Vancouver-based Open Data speaker and public policy entrepreneur, David Eaves. The event, which this year was celebrated in over 90 cities around the world, brought together Open Data enthusiasts to brainstorm about how to turn raw, government data into user-friendly applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. announced Friday the dismissal of a lawsuit in respect of alleged profit participation rights on the film Escape from Planet Earth, which was released in theatres on February 15th. Rainmaker and a subsidiary had been named as defendants, along with a number of other parties, in a suit filed in the New York Supreme Court. Rainmaker had previously obtained an indemnity from the copyright owner and the distributor of the film. On February 20, 2013, a Stipulation of Discontinuance was filed with the New York Supreme Court dismissing the litigation against all named parties and a mutual release was executed.

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced a mechanism for officially recording data on gross sales for all television and digital media projects supported in the CMF Convergent and Experimental streams. As announced last April, when the new guidelines were published, each project funded by the CMF in 2012–2013 must provide a report on gross sales from now on. The purpose is to help the CMF compile statistics on sales concluded nationally and internationally in order to better promote the success of funded projects. The data will also serve for discussions on a potential incentive to stimulate international sales. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s unique boutique creative/production house Goldtooth Creative Agency Inc. swaggered onto the screens of North American and European TV audiences on February 12 with a CG television trailer for the highly-anticipated sandbox shooter Crysis® 3. The 30-second spot was broadcast during the lead up to the game’s North American release on February 19. The trailer will be broadcast globally within a week of launch and also be featured online. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) developer OpenText™ has announced that Deutsche Bundesbank, the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany, has selected OpenText to establish a digital environment that will safely house business critical assets and encourage increased productivity and collaboration. Deutsche Bundesbank is leveraging a number of integrated solutions from the OpenText Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite, one of five foundational pillars of OpenText EIM, which enables organizations to manage information throughout its lifecycle, improve business productivity, and control the costs and risk associated with the growing volume and velocity of content being produced and published in the enterprise. Read the rest of this entry »

Unleash the power of Twitter Advertising directly from your dashboard with HootSuite and Twitter’s Promoted Products Integration, a newly announced bringing together the power of Twitter’s Promoted Products with HootSuite. For the first time, both social media buyers and social media practitioners can now work together to simplify the workflow associated with buying Promoted Tweets – and quickly amplify these messages in real-time from HootSuite’s dashboard. HootSuite customers can find more information and get started now. Read the rest of this entry »

JOLT technology accelerator has announced the addition of six new companies to its portfolio. JOLT, launched by MaRS Discovery District in July 2012, invests in emerging web and mobile startups and provides them with the tools, seed capital and advice they need to compete and succeed on the global stage. Read the rest of this entry »