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Big Blue Bubble Inc. announced today that Burn the Rope Worlds HD has come to the big screen and is now available on the iPad.  Burn the Rope Worlds HD follows in the footsteps of the original game with 100 more levels, four different and exciting worlds, and a brand new mini-game called Endless Burn. In this new game, the player can experience the fun by travelling to new and exotic places like the Jungle, Mechanical, Fantasy, and Space worlds. Read the rest of this entry »

Today Funcom kicks off Week of the Dragon – a full week of focus on the Dragon secret society. Throughout the week, all eyes will be on the chaotic and secretive Dragon society, one of three secret societies represented in the upcoming, modern-day MMO ‘The Secret World’. Which secret society are you? Sign up for the beta and join a secret society by taking the initiation test. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced that its subsidiary, Ortsbo Inc. has launched a proprietary real time multi-language plug-in for WordPress, allowing blogs to be instantly translated, in real time, into over 50 languages. Over 300 Million people each month read over 2.5 Billion blog pages created through WordPress, the world’s leading blogging software. To date, there have been over 225 Million downloads of WordPress plug-ins globally. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) is pleased to welcome Medicine Hat College’s Entrepreneur Development Centre to its network of community partners. To celebrate Medicine Hat College’s support for youth entrepreneurship and commitment to working with CYBF, an official partnership launch will be held on Monday, October 17^th, from 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the Medicine Hat College – Courtyard Room, 299 College Drive SE, Medicine Hat. Breakfast will be served. Read the rest of this entry »

The Funding Portal Inc. has closed an angel financing round with Societal Ventures Corporation, an Ottawa-based investor. The Funding Portal is a national bilingual portal that was launched in July 2011 to improve access to the Canadian public funding marketplace. Its unique proprietary search engine, TFP Search™, allows business, university and other applicants to find public funding programs from the Portal’s database of over 2,000 federal, provincial and municipal programs representing an estimated $16B in public grants, contributions and tax incentives. Applicants also have access to the Portal’s national roster of professionals to assist with all aspects of their funding applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Parks Canada and the Cineplex network are joining forces on Sunday November 13th for an outstanding screening on two of the most beautiful, overlooked national parks in Canada: Tuktut Nogait, a park located north of the Arctic Circle inhabited by a population of caribou, and Pukaskwa, a park of mesmerizing beauty on the shores of Lake Superior.

The wide-screen projection of these two short films by Oasis HD will be accompanied by an online exchange session on Twitter between spectators in the theatre and Parks Canada specialists. The films are in English, but this exchange can be carried out in the preferred official language of the participants. Read the rest of this entry »

Mint Technology Corp. has made two important announcements today. The first is that the Company has formed a new subsidiary called Mint Money (“M-Money”), and the second is that the Company has signed a binding Memorandum of Understanding with transaction processing company Carta Worldwide for the formation of Mint Global Processing LLC (MGP). MGP will be owned 55% by Mint and 45% by Carta Worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile application development firm Purple Forge is well known for its work in politics, events and municipal government applications – but today is announcing that it is branching out into the world of the undead with Zombiegram. With Halloween around the corner and this week’s premier of the second season of the popular AMC series “The Walking Dead”, Zombiegram is the ideal way to engage friends on what is shaping up to be the year of the Zombie. Read the rest of this entry »

Perplexus Rookie, the new entry-level version of the break-out hit Perplexus, has been named a Gold 2011 National Parenting Publications Award winner. The NAPPA Gold Award is the latest in a series of accolades won by Perplexus Rookie this fall which has also included a Disney Family Fun Top Toy Award and a Toy Insider Hot 20 award earlier this month. Read the rest of this entry »

With the Mobile Payments industry expected to hit the trillions before the end of the decade, Aramor Payments has made the strategic decision to extend its portfolio of services to include mobile payment solutions for Canadian businesses. To make this change they brought in a seasoned professional from the mobile industry. Lyndon Burrell has joined the Aramor team as SVP of Canadian Payments and CEO Maxwell Morgan couldn’t be more pleased. “Lyndon is an experienced marketing professional. He comes to us from Research In Motion – BlackBerry where he spent six years as a Sr. Marketing Manger in its Business Solutions Group. Read the rest of this entry »