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The 2013 BCIC-New Ventures Competition is moving right along, and 142 of the 145 entered companies are eligible to proceed to Round 2. The next round will see these companies working on a 5-page business overview, which is due for judging on May 9th. Take a look at the companies in the running for $300,000 in cash & prizes: Read the rest of this entry »

Today, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) announced the Anglophone Minority Incentive, a $3 M program designed to encourage television convergent production for English language production in Québec. Read the rest of this entry »

Ubisoft has announced that the soundtrack of the Retro Futuristic Cyber Shooter Far Cry 3® Blood Dragon is available for pre-orders on iTunes and will release May 1st for $9.99. The soundtrack is also being offered to all PC digital pre-orders and with the PC retail version of the game. All 25 tracks are original creations from the group Power Glove. This soundtrack is their first collaboration on a video game. Their music style was a perfect and natural fit for Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon and they have delivered beyond all expectations. Read the rest of this entry »

Online store ecommerce platform developer Shopify  has announced the winners of its third “Build-A-Business Competition.” During the 8-month competition period, over 10,000 entrepreneurs created new online businesses that sold over $55 million in products. Grand prizes are awarded to shops with the highest sales over a two-month period. Shopify partnered with Timothy Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek), Daymond John (Shark Tank, FUBU), Tina Roth Eisenberg (swissmiss) and Eric Ries (The Lean Startup), to offer each of the winners a $50,000 US investment in exchange for a 5% equity stake in their company. Read the rest of this entry »

Music for Productions has returned from a very successful NAB experience in Las Vegas, with the company presently finalizing 3 more foreign sub-publishing deals to assist with expanding their production music library worldwide. Hi-Five in South Korea, Soundiva in Italy and Altitude Music in the UK are the three new foreign territories that are now working with Music for Productions to provide more audio content to their production music library clients. Music For Productions is also working on several additional sub-publishing deals in other foreign territories. Read the rest of this entry »

LightSpeed, a Montreal-headquartered software company using Macs, iPhones and iPads to help retailers revolutionize the in-store experience, today announced the launch of StoreMaster, a completely re-engineered interface for the Mac that provides retailers with complete control over their business. As part of LightSpeed’s most extensive upgrade to date, StoreMaster enables users to track real-time data across all sales channels, manage inventory levels and process invoices and shipments from one simple control panel. Its new customizable Dashboard delivers up-to-the-minute metrics in beautiful, easy-to-read graphs, allowing stores to reach their sales goals and monitor performance. Read the rest of this entry »

The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is pleased  to announce that Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment, will be the Opening Keynote at this year’s Festival and that David Stapf, President, CBS Television Studios and Armando Nuñez, President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Global Distribution Group, will deliver a CBS Global Content Keynote. BANFF named CBS Corp. its inaugural Company of Distinction for this year’s event. Each year this program will allow the Festival to celebrate a company demonstrating significant leadership in the world of screen based entertainment. Read the rest of this entry »