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Via Ayogo’s blog: Ayogo Games has been selected for the Emerging Rockets Life Sciences list for 2012! Life Sciences Technology includes Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Healthcare Information Technology and other innovations improving health. Read the rest of this entry »

Parksville’s Pixton Comics Inc., creators of an online comic-making platform with an intuitive click-n-drag interface, has come out on top with the $30,000 grand prize in the 2^nd annual BCIC-New Ventures Competition: Regional. In total, $60,000 in cash prizes was awarded at a ceremony held in Kelowna Thursday, February 23, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

As many of you already know, the Oscar® for Achievement in Visual Effects went to the film Hugo, which featured the work of Seneca graduates and professors. Six graduates and professors from Seneca College worked on Martin Scorsese’s 3D children’s adventure, including Professors Mahmoud Rahnama division computer graphics lead and Kenny Tam (division computer graphics supervisor) and graduates Tricia Kim (matchmove artist), John Dinh compositor, Karen Cheng (compositor), and Rickey Verma (compositor). Read the rest of this entry »

The Interactive Fund is a program created in partnership between BC Film + Media and the BC Arts Council. The program is intended to support the production of high quality, original, interactive digital media content owned and controlled by BC companies or individuals. Funding is in the form of a non-recoupable advance of up to $50,000. Read the rest of this entry »

SiriusXM Canada has announced nominations for the 2012 SiriusXM Indie Awards‘ Emerging Artist of the Year category and will award $10,000 to the winner during the award show taking place at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Saturday, March 24, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto-based Compugen has been recognized with an esteemed HP Partner in Excellence Canada ESSN Growth Award at the 2012 HP Global Partner Conference (GPC) in Las Vegas. The Partner in Excellence Canada ESSN Growth Award honours Compugen for Top Balanced Revenue & Growth across the ESSN portfolio. Read the rest of this entry »

PressReader, the app that delivers the world’s most authentic newspaper-reading experience, has been voted by the readers of 148Apps as the “2011 Best App Ever” in the newspaper category. PressReader, which delivers more than 2,000 full-content newspapers from 93 countries to the most popular smartphones and tablets, was selected as the best newspaper app for Apple iOS, beating out The Daily, Flipboard, Guardian iPad Edition, NY Times, USA TODAY, and The Wall Street Journal Mobile. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s most credible and trusted consumer packaged goods (CPG) awards program, the Best New Product Awards (BNPAs), welcomes Shaw Media as the exclusive broadcast media partner. The partnership will include various campaigns showcasing the BNPA logo as well as BNPA winners being featured on Shaw’s extensive broadcast, online and video on demand networks including: Global Television, Food Network, HGTV, History Channel and Slice. Read the rest of this entry »

Educators from across the country are developing new learning opportunities that fuel the intrinsic motivation of students to take ownership of their learning and challenge traditional ideas of “teacher” and “learner”. Read the rest of this entry »

Staff at Blatant Media Corporation, creators of the award-winning learning management system, Absorb LMS, are happy to announce that they have been awarded Bronze in the Learning Management Technology category of the 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology for Learning, Talent Management, and Sales and Marketing Awards. Read the rest of this entry »