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Intuit wants to know who will create the next great personal or small business finance application and what will they invent? The company is offering developers the opportunity to use one of its key ingredients to innovate and perhaps create the next Quicken, QuickBooks or Mint.com. For the first time in its history, Intuit is opening the application programming interfaces to its financial data service in the U.S. and Canada by giving third-party developers access to one of the key ingredients that has made Quicken, QuickBooks, Mint.com and FinanceWorks some of the world’s most successful financial management programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s entrepreneurs are always looking for new ways to take their business to the next level. Research from Intuit Canada has found, however, that entrepreneurs often lack the time and resources they need to get ahead. Intuit’s research shows that 62% of Canada’s 2.4 million small businesses say that financial tracking is critical when it comes to achieving their business goals Research conducted by ConStat. 961 small business professionals surveyed between February 28 and March 12, 2012. According to Industry Canada, the definition of “small business” is firms that have fewer than 100 employees. The same research shows that more than 34% of small businesses are constantly looking for better ways to manage their finances, while 26% feel they’re alone when it comes to managing their business. Read the rest of this entry »

Emmy® Award-winning Toon Boom Animation Inc. the market leader in animation technology, announced today its support of the MIPJunior first International Pitch Competition targeted to creatives, producers and decision-makers from all sectors of the kids’ entertainment business. Read the rest of this entry »

Di-O-Matic, a Montreal-based developer of user friendly character animation software, has announced the launch Voice-O-Matic v2 (Maya Edition). Di-O-Matic heard the call from animators. Spending hours creating lip synch animations for CG characters can be tiring and manually generating every single lip movement can be a long and tedious task. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest global survey of 1400 IT decision makers from Canada, the U.S., UK, Germany, India, Japan and Brazil, found that while Canada had one of the highest cloud adoption rates, it also had one of the largest increases in data security lapse or issue — behind India and Japan. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute® Software Corporation, a Vancouver-based provider of security and management for PC, Mac, iOS, Android and BlackBerry devices and data, announced today the release of Absolute Manage 6.1.2 which supports both Windows 8 and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been following Investintech on Facebook, or read Village Gamer regularly, then you know that at one point the developer featured an Able2Doc giveaway. Well, if you missed out on your free copy, here’s your second chance. Investintech is having a back-to-school one-week-only special, where you can get Able2Doc  v.6.0  for free (valued at $49.95) on Twitter. Read the rest of this entry »

MaxHire Solutions President Peter Blitz today announced the outstanding growth and success of a unique and innovative approach to Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Blitz is leading the way by leveraging a social media CRM philosophy and directly connecting with his customers through MaxHire’s LinkedIn discussion group. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at VMworld 2012, Teradici, a Burnaby-based developer of the innovative PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) protocol that enables a true PC experience for desktop virtualization, announced the APEX software release 2.0. This update introduces new, future proof functionalities bringing unbeatable user experience to new and existing VDI users, while maintaining compatibility with upcoming versions of VMware View®. Read the rest of this entry »

Absolute® Software Corporation, a Vancouver-based provider of firmware-embedded endpoint security and management solutions, today announced that consumers can now secure personal data on stolen or lost Android tablets and smartphones with Absolute Data Protect (ADP). Available for download at no cost in Google Play, Absolute Data Protect uses the same persistence technology and data protection that businesses use. Read the rest of this entry »