Electronic Arts Inc. has officially launched Origin™ for the Mac®, a new built-for-platform version of EA’s direct download application for Mac users worldwide. Just as it has for tens of millions of PC users, Origin for Mac will offer fast and safe game downloads for many of the industry’s most popular titles from EA and publishing partners. Origin for Mac delivers many of the same Origin features that have defined the experience for PC users, including cloud storage to save and continue games, social connectivity via friends lists, and more. Read the rest of this entry »
Game Changers: Leadership in the Digital Age (PDF), a new study released today by Canadian Women in Communications (CWC), reveals a changing leadership paradigm in Canadian technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors transformed by digital technologies. The consultation, which canvassed the views of 61 sector leaders across Canada and the U.S., found that traditional management skills, while still important, no longer assure success for executives or their organizations. Read the rest of this entry »
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) congratulates Members of Parliament (MPs) from all three major political parties for coming together to form an Entrepreneur Caucus. Today marked the inaugural meeting of the Caucus in Ottawa and included a presentation from CFIB on findings from a recent pre-budget survey and a list of recommendations for the 2013 budget. Read the rest of this entry »
The growth in the use of electronic payment products, such as credit and debit cards, added US$9.7 billion to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Canada over the past four years, according to a study conducted for Visa by Moody’s Analytics, a leading independent provider of economic forecasting. The study of 56 countries, including Canada, that represent 93 per cent of global GDP, concluded that: “card usage makes the economy more efficient, yielding a meaningful boost to economic growth.” Read the rest of this entry »
TribeHR, pioneer of the industry’s first social HR platform, today released year-end results that showcase its accelerating appeal and value among new and existing medium-sized customers. During 2012, TribeHR grew its net new customers by almost 300 percent, equating to more than 500 percent increase in sales. TribeHR now boasts customers in more than 20 countries including the U.S.A, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Read the rest of this entry »
Staples Canada has announced that it is vastly expanding its online assortment, delivering more products and offering customers more ways to shop. The Staples Canada redesigned website and new online shopping platform offers customers 90 percent more merchandise, as part of Staples commitment to providing customers every product their business needs to succeed. Customers can now visit staples.ca and choose from more products while experiencing also a new look, additional features and expanded functionality including live customer service support with online chat, improved search capabilities, a “deals” centre that consolidates all of our discounted items, and a growing number of informative product videos to help with buying decisions. Read the rest of this entry »
Two premier, national institutions, The Banff Centre and CIFAR (The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research), have entered into a partnership to strengthen Canada’s capacity in creativity and innovation. Together, both institutions represent many of the world’s best minds engaged in research in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Both are dedicated to advancing knowledge and unleashing human creativity and recognize that, by working together, they can tap a broad diversity of viewpoints to inspire new ways of addressing questions of global importance and furthering their respective missions. Read the rest of this entry »
Layer 7 Technologies, a provider of API management and mobilization tools for the new open enterprise, announced that it has been named a Leader by Forrester Research Inc. in its new report, “The Forrester Wave™: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013.” Layer 7 was part of a select list of companies invited by Forrester Research to participate in its Forrester Wave Report: API Management Platforms, Q1 2013. In the report, Forrester describes API management as valuable because “APIs create and unlock the business value of data.” Read the rest of this entry »
hyperWALLET, a leading provider of global payment solutions, today announced integration of its prepaid card products and services with Apple Passbook, a feature of Apple’s iOS6 that supports virtual tickets, boarding passes, coupons and more. Since its release use has grown rapidly, with many companies developing apps for Passbook. Read the rest of this entry »
Electronic Arts Inc. has officially launched Origin™ for the Mac®, a new built-for-platform version of EA’s direct download application for Mac users worldwide. Just as it has for tens of millions of PC users, Origin for Mac will offer fast and safe game downloads for many of the industry’s most popular titles from EA and publishing partners. Origin for Mac delivers many of the same Origin features that have defined the experience for PC users, including cloud storage to save and continue games, social connectivity via friends lists, and more. Read the rest of this entry »
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