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Social media is gaining a foothold in Canada’s workplaces, with personal and professional use overlapping at work, according to the latest survey results from global workforce solutions provider Kelly Services®. Approximately 15 percent of employees approve of the personal use of social media during work hours, while many more view it as disruptive to workplace harmony. Read the rest of this entry »

PEER 1 Hosting, a Vancouver-based IT hosting provider, has announced the launch of HPC Self Serve Cloud, powered by the company’s Zunicore public cloud platform. PEER 1 Hosting’s HPC Self Serve Cloud delivers a flexible and cost-effective high performance computing environment by fusing virtual and physical servers with a private net. The result is a seamless, self-serve solution that is fast, secure and available on-demand. Read the rest of this entry »

CounterPath Corporation, an award-winning provider of desktop and mobile VoIP software products and solutions based in Vancouver, has announced that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of up to 1,400,000 units of the Company at CDN$2.50 per Unit for total gross proceeds of up to CDN$3,500,000.  The Company may increase the size of the private placement if warranted.  The Company plans to use the proceeds from the Offering towards general working capital. Read the rest of this entry »

A new poll of 400 Canadian business leaders by Queen’s School of Business reveals decidedly mixed feelings about social media.  While four in ten (39 per cent) bosses say social media is something they need to use—whether they want to or not —close to an equal number (35 per cent) say they use it heavily because it’s a good opportunity for the business, with the remaining 24 per cent saying it doesn’t add any value. Despite these divisions, a strong majority of executives (72 per cent) are planning to invest the same or more on social media versus last year. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canadian entertainment & media (E&M) market will grow faster than the U.S. to 2016 primarily because of higher spending on Internet access and TV subscriptions, says a new report from PwC. The Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2012-2016  shows Canada’s E&M market growing at a 6.5% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) compared to 5.2% in the U.S through 2016. Read the rest of this entry »

Open Text™ Corporation has announced three key appointments to its executive leadership team designed to strengthen and propel the company through its next stage of growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver-based EvidencePix Systems Inc., developer of VerifyPro™ and the patented EpixTrust™ process for secure capture and transfer of digital media from mobile devices, has announced the appointment of Seenergee Corp. as an authorized distributor for Mexico and Colombia. Read the rest of this entry »

CDI College is pleased to announce the recent opening of a brand new campus in Surrey, BC. The new facility, located just off Scott Road, will allow the college to continue to offer its wide range of career training programs in the city and accommodate a larger student body. Read the rest of this entry »

Organizations should act now to address the privacy risks associated with Big Data, and the analytics technologies used to make sense of these vast data sets, before such risks become realities. This, and other key recommendations, are detailed in a new joint report titled Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data authored by Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, and IBM Fellow, Jeff Jonas. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s first national conference for sponsorship marketers has a new name and a new look: Sponsorship Toronto. The Sponsorship Report is proud to have pioneered professional development for sponsorship in Canada. In 1997, it launched Selling Sponsorships: Strategies for Success^®, a one-day conference on sponsorship sales. Read the rest of this entry »