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Who needs prestige and industry respect when you can have robots and excellent hair? TELETOON at Night’s The Fannies is the ultimate awards season underdog, a show in which host Fred Kennedy hands out trophies for things that are really important to humanity – like man bums and swords. The third annual Fannies, taped in front of a live audience for the first time in the show’s history, will air Friday, February 22 starting at 9 p.m. ET/PT during TELETOON at Night’s Fred at Night programming block. Read the rest of this entry »

“Live Like Viv!” is the entertaining, fun, beautiful, and extravagant new web series featuring artist, designer, chef, urban farmer Vivian Reiss. Viewers are invited to step in to her world when, in this first episode, Reiss makes chocolate pudding from scratch in her over the top kitchen. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian children’s website Kidobi has been named the Best Streaming Video Platform in the Preschool category at the inaugural iKids Awards last Monday in New York. The 2013 iKids Awards were designed to highlight the best digital offerings for kids. The winners were selected unanimously by a panel of five industry judges. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group (CBMTG) is pleased to announce a partnership with Vancouver-based STEMSOFT Software Inc. that will result in a national registry of patients who have undergone blood and marrow transplants in Canada. The CBMTG National Registry is expected to launch in April 2013 in conjunction with the association’s annual conference. Read the rest of this entry »

Wishpond has announced the launch of its Group Offer app, the only app of its kind that allows retailers and brands to create group deals (without Groupon) that harness the power of social sharing on their Facebook Pages, Twitter Profiles, websites and mobile, helping to boost a company’s reach and sales. For example, a clothing store can entice users to purchase excess inventory by offering a $40 gift card towards last season’s clothing line for $20. Entrants will be encouraged to invite their friends to purchase to reach the specified number of participants necessary to unlock the offer. Read the rest of this entry »

With over 10 years of experience coaching kids and teens in the arts, John Stevens and his partner Doug Sloan, the owners of Talent INC Canada, are on a mission to empower the young people they work with. “The arts offer such a unique opportunity for young people to express themselves in a fun and safe environment,” says Stevens. Read the rest of this entry »

February is recognized as Time Management Month, giving focus on the need to evaluate and reprioritize out-of-balance lives. To help draw attention to the massive amount of time spent on time-killing activities that throw life out-of-balance, OfficeTime, which began in 2003 as a spin-off from former Edmonton software developer Transcena Design, has released its annual “Top 10 Time Killers” list. The list was created following a worldwide survey of over 600 people, mostly small business owners, freelancers and other professionals. Results were ranked based on the percentage of people spending between one to two hours on each activity. Read the rest of this entry »

cfactor Works Inc. (cfactor), a Saskatoon-based developer of socially infused Human Resource technologies, announced the addition of California Pizza Kitchen (“CPK”) to its client portfolio. At the outset of this new relationship, cfactor will deploy Talent Effectiveness for CPK. This solution is designed to enhance the execution of employee engagement initiatives and programs by providing managers with on-demand access to engagement survey results, relevant engagement metrics and the ability to roll out and track engagement action plans. Read the rest of this entry »

Ottawa’s Klipfolio Inc. has announced the release of a number of features available through its white-label and partner program. This release is designed to make it easy for marketing agencies to manage multiple clients using a centralized master account. Klipfolio Dashboard is fast becoming a top choice for marketing agencies, in large part due to its ability to integrate multiple, disparate data sources using clean and simple data visualizations. Read the rest of this entry »

Ontario company Gibraltar Solutions has announced that the company has signed a partnership agreement with Cisco with the intent on achieving Cisco’s authorization for Advanced Datacentre Architecture and Advanced Unified Fabric Technology. The partnership with Cisco marks an extraordinary milestone for Gibraltar. Gibraltar will be joining a short list of companies in Canada with proven ability and experience of architecting, deploying and managing advanced virtualization and cloud solutions across multiple hardware platforms. Read the rest of this entry »