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Interactive entertainment company Ludia and FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) announced today the launch of The Price Is Right Slots game for the Facebook platform. Players, worldwide, can now experience an original and interactive free slot machine game based on the longest-running game show in television history. Read the rest of this entry »

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the International Digital Emmy® Awards at a ceremony last evening. Organized in partnership with Reed Midem and attended by over 300 international executives from the television, broadband and mobile industries who are in Cannes for MIPTV 2012. Read the rest of this entry »

IUGO is very proud to reveal the next installment in the popular Animal Academy series – Animal Academy: Summer Camp!  Building on everything that’s great about Animal Academy, Summer Camp allows the player to construct and customize an awesome summer camp for a wide variety of cute, colorful animal campers! Read the rest of this entry »

Digital music service Rdio, an enterprise started by the creators of Skype is among the first music services integrated with Facebook timeline in Canada, allowing access to Rdio’s new milestone 15 million songs straight from your Facebook timeline. With the integration, people who use Facebook in Canada will now be able to share their musical tastes with their friends and discover new music directly on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Social Campaign Optimization and Social Learning experts Parta Dialogue have announced their results from a social media performance analysis of over 5000 global brands using their patent-pending eValue™ Efficiency Calculator. Read the rest of this entry »

Already having surpassed three and a half million members, it was announced today that SCENE, the popular Canadian movie rewards program from Cineplex Entertainment and Scotiabank, is further integrating game dynamics with the launch of the Trivia Stars Facebook game. Read the rest of this entry »

IGLOO Software, a provider of social business software in the cloud, has announced that International Data Corporation (IDC), a global provider of IT market intelligence, advisory services and events, has selected IGLOO to power their customer community. Read the rest of this entry »

Poynt Corporation, Intertainment Media Inc. and Ortsbo Inc., a subsidiary of Intertainment Media Inc.,  announced yesterday that they have finalized a joint venture agreement. The JV Agreement provides for the integration of Intertainment’s real-time experiential language platform, Ortsbo, into the Poynt platform. The parties also undertook to explore the mutual exchange of advertising inventory and investigate additional opportunities for monetization of both the Poynt Platform and Intertainment’s other platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

Social product development may not be a term everyone is familiar with yet, but that is something Dean Horsfield, CEO of Big Dreams Big ideas is out to change. Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine the opportunity to stay in the heart of the city for every long weekend in 2013.  Experience the events, shopping, theatre, dining and attractions all just steps away from Toronto’s Entertainment Hotel. The Delta Chelsea has launched its biggest contest ever by challenging the Facebook community to raise over 10,000 “Likes” on the Delta Chelsea Facebook page by July 31, 2012! Read the rest of this entry »