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Toronto-based Music for Productions has just launched a new website in response to the demand for stock music and production music library services. The new website features an innovative, modern design, more user-friendly navigation and features close to 28,000 tracks. MFP has acquired several new catalogues and expanded their offering considerably. For now clients can navigate from the old site to the new one and select either one when doing a search. MFP will phase out the original site within the next year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) announced it is sponsoring the OSMO Foundation by providing financial support for the Notman House, a collaborative hub in which Montreal entrepreneurs building high-tech companies can share knowledge, exchange ideas and build collaborative networks. The sponsorship agreement provides for an initial lump sum commitment of $325,000, plus an additional $100,000 over four years (“Supporter Level”). Read the rest of this entry »

Square Victoria Digital Properties has announced the appointment of Tomer Strolight as Executive Vice-President. Mr. Strolight, who took on his new duties as of January 7th, is responsible for developing a presence in Toronto for Square Victoria Digital Properties and expanding the company’s portfolio across Canada by strategically identifying digital businesses that are seeking investment to continue their growth. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced today a contribution of more than 4.2 million dollars to innovative projects receiving development and marketing support as part of the second round of its 2012-2013 Experimental Stream. In November 2012, the CMF announced a contribution of more than 10 million dollars to 15 projects who received production support. In 2012-2013, the CMF invested 36 million dollars in 87 projects who successfully applied to the Experimental Stream. Since its creation in April 2010, the CMF has provided more than 95 million dollars in funding to more than 250 innovative experimental projects originating from every region in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »

Real-time bidding (RTB) is expected to reach $14 billion by 2016 according to IDC, so it’s no surprise that ad agencies, brands and even Facebook are trying their hand at the technology. However, in a recent study conducted by Forrester, less than 10 percent of digital media marketers are employing data-driven tactics to optimize the targeting, measurement and overall effectiveness of their campaigns. SiteScout, a Toronto-based self-serve demand-side platform (DSP) for buying online display advertising, launched its Knowledge Center to help digital marketers understand, build and launch more effective display ad campaigns on the web and on mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry »

QuickPlay Media, a Toronto-based provider of cloud-based managed service solutions for the distribution of premium media to IP-connected devices, today announced the availability of closed captioning support for its Live and On Demand multiscreen video solutions. Using its cloud-based OpenVideo platform, QuickPlay ingests, extracts and encodes closed captioning data from a variety of video formats – enabling mobile TV service providers to integrate closed captioning into their premium mobile video services. Last September, the FCC mandated that all episodic content delivered over IP networks must have closed captioning, under the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Secure digital media management company Yangaroo Inc. and the Latin Recording Academy^®have entered into a multi-year agreement to digitize the process of Latin Grammy Awards submissions and provide its international membership the ability to listen to music considered for the world’s premier Latin music award. Read the rest of this entry »

Kobo Inc. announced today that it has exceeded 2012 market forecasts, doubling device sales and attracting more than 4 million new customers within the last six months to bring its total to more than 12 million registered users. Contradicting forecasts claiming eReader sales would decline in 2012, Kobo’s E Ink eReader sales were up nearly 150 percent in December, helping the company to carve out 20 percent of the global eReader market [source: DigiTimes]. In less than twelve months, the company launched three new eReading devices and further established its eReading services in new territories including Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Japan, Spain, South Africa, and the Netherlands this year. The annual growth and outstanding international performance culminated in Kobo users reading more than 22 million pages on Christmas Day. Read the rest of this entry »

Motorola Solutions, Inc., a provider of mission-critical communication solutions and services for enterprise and government customers, is working with Best Buy Canada and Future Shop, Canada’s first electronics retailers to roll out fully integrated, enterprise mobile point of sale (mPOS) solutions. Both companies today announced they have improved customer service and staff productivity at a number of stores with the implementation of tablet-based mPOS technology. Read the rest of this entry »

In Motion Technology, a New Westminster-based developer of mobile enterprise networks, has announced an agreement with American company Knowledge Information Solutions (KIS) to distribute the company’s award-winning communications system. In Motion is deployed in thousands of law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies, transit and commercial vehicles in many of the most demanding mobile organizations in North America. Read the rest of this entry »