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Crowd Intelligence solutions provider Chaordix and social ideation community Genius Crowds have announced a new partnership aimed at jointly providing a greater choice of crowdsourcing engagement options for enterprises. Read the rest of this entry »

Student technology conference EpCon is coming back to Waterloo on January 27-28th 2012. EpCon gathers leaders from the tech industry and students interested in tech from schools across Canada to deliberate application and future of various technologies. Events will be held at Bingemans Conference Centre, registration for EpCon2 opens on October 31, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

The Quebec Technology Association has announced its program for the 12th edition of Vision PDG, the exclusive forum for CEOs of Quebec information and communication technologies companies, which will take place February 22-25, 2012 at Fairmont Tremblant under the theme: “Innovation: Make it your business!”

“Innovation is a strategic imperative for company growth. The ability to innovate today means understanding the economy, continually directing creativity and integrating collaborative work methods. This is why we will be offering workshop conferences, the length of which has been extended to enable in-depth discussion of subjects that involve ICT CEOs, a veritable winter university,” according to Nicole Martel, AQT President & CEO. Read the rest of this entry »

Women of Influence Inc. has selected finalists for the 2011 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Awards (CWEA). All finalists will be honoured at the 19^thAnnual Awards Gala – hosted by Diane Francis, editor-at-large for the National Post – on November 28, 2011 at the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

I am slowly catching up with all of the news that came out while we were without internet for 30+ hours thanks to some idiot copper thieves who can’t tell the difference between Telus’ copper phone wires and Shaw’s fibre optic cables. One of the new releases I was unable to tell you about is the new Halloween version of Toppling Towers, a newly-released universal iOS game developed by Vancouver’s Harmony Arcade and published by Big Fish Games. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Studios has announced game discounts as part of the TransGaming Not-Quite-Bundle for iOS devices. These special offers will only be available for a limited time, so take this opportunity to download them from the iTunes store before the offer vanishes. For those who already have Puzzle Quest, an update has been released today which includes iOS 5 support, retina display support for iPhone and iPad, plus the developers have added ‘Restore’ functionality for in-game purchases, performance and visual improvements as well as many bug fixes. Read the rest of this entry »

Media monitoring service FPinfomart has announced that it has teamed up with Social Media Group to offer FPinfomart clients access to a full suite of integrated social media measurement, analysis and consulting services. Social Media Group is a full-service social media agency that provides research and analysis to some of the world’s biggest brands. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Just-Eat Canada Inc., Canada’s largest and fastest growing online food ordering service, has acquired the business of GrubCanada Inc. Just-Eat Canada is part of Just-Eat Group, the global leader in online food ordering. With this acquisition, Just-Eat is able to offer online consumers access to over 1,000 delivery restaurants across the country, giving busy Canadians more options than ever for quick, time-saving delivery and takeaway meals. Read the rest of this entry »

MediaSpark CEO Mathew Georghiou made a series of announcements late last week about the company’s GoVenture Any Business educational simulation, which has already received a Gold Omni Award with a perfect 10.0 judging score.  Unlike other business simulations, Any Business allows teachers and corporate trainers to create highly-customized, online, head-to-head, multiplayer business simulations for any product in any industry and in any market.  Simulations can be designed to model current events, historical successes and failures, or to target specific challenges and learning outcomes. Read the rest of this entry »

You are invited to join the half a million people who have registered to participate in the ongoing beta testing of Funcom’s highly anticipated new game ‘The Secret World’, which will be published by Electronic Arts Inc. Almost everyone joining the community has chosen to affiliate themselves with one of the game’s three secret societies – the Illuminati, the Dragon, and the Templars – fueling the conflict that is already emerging on forums and social media channels everywhere. Read the rest of this entry »