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High Street Partners announced today it is opening a new international office in Toronto, Canada, further indication of the company’s growing prominence in the global SaaS industry. Currently, High Street Partners operates in Hong Kong, London, Munich, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, and in multiple locations in the United States. The Toronto office will help Canadian companies wishing to expand and operate in the US, and in countries outside of North America. HSP also announced today it has tapped sales industry veteran Tom Gardner to lead the HSP Canada team, responsible for driving sales in one of the world’s most business-friendly economies. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management (EIM) developer OpenText™ has announced that it will be unveiling the latest innovations in OpenText’s Customer Experience Management (CEM) suite at Ignite the Experience, a fun, informal and educational event being held in London at Vinopolis on September 26, 2013. Attendees will experience the power of Customer Experience Management and how, as a key component of OpenText’s Enterprise Information Management (EIM) strategy, it helps to link departments across enterprise organizations to harmonize brands and communications across all customer channels – from web and social through to customer call centres and finance. Read the rest of this entry »

Enterprise Information Management developer OpenText™  has announced a partnership with ExactTarget to develop and sell an integrated solution that will speed the flow of rich media to digital marketers for use in their omni-channel campaigns. Leveraging ExactTarget’s industry-leading digital marketing platform and OpenText Digital Asset Management, part of the OpenText Customer Experience Management (CEM) suite, the offering will help solve a critical bottleneck for enterprises looking to deliver engaging and personalized experiences across all customer touch points. The new solution is being debuted at ExactTarget’s Connections conference in Indianapolis. The new solution will be available worldwide to all ExactTarget and OpenText CEM customers in Q1 Calendar Year 2014. Read the rest of this entry »

US-based MailChimp has announced a new and enhanced integration with social relationship platform HootSuite, making it even easier for marketing teams who use HootSuite and MailChimp to manage their social and email campaigns all from one dashboard. Read the rest of this entry »

Roxio has introduced Roxio Creator® NXT 2, featuring accelerated performance, enhanced support for the latest devices and new audio and music options. Roxio Creator NXT 2 is the complete and easy-to-use multimedia suite that enables you to make movies faster, easily enhance photos and share your digital media to more devices. Enjoy a more responsive movie-making experience with video rendering that’s up to 10x faster. Edit and retouch photos with ease. Rip, mix, burn and share your favorite music. Powerful tools let you burn, back up, copy and preserve files to CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Share almost anywhere with support for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, iPad, Facebook, YouTube and more. Built-in tutorials and a printable instructions guide help you get started fast. Read the rest of this entry »

Social relationship management platform HootSuite, announces a new partnership with Nexgate, a leader in enterprise social media security, to protect brands and address the increasing compliance and policy management requirements facing social media practitioners. This new partnership provides HootSuite Enterprise customers with a comprehensive compliance solution that protects their brand and secures their organization’s social media network environments from employee misuse, hackers, spam, hate, and malware. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite has announced that four new apps have been added to its App Directory, including two of the most popular user requested apps for Gmail and ViralTag for Pinterest to its . The social relationship platform now boasts 65 social networks and tools used by today’s social business. ViralTag brings Pinterest functionality into the HootSuite dashboard, while the Gmail app makes monitoring email alongside real-time social streams easy. The latest release also includes apps video success platform Vidcaster, and selling tool Shopseen. Social media practitioners no longer have to leave the HootSuite dashboard to access their popular social tools, increasing productivity and efficiency. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite, makers of the most widely adopted social relationship platform, has expanded its App Directory with the addition of SugarCRM, the company that makes every user a customer expert. SugarCRM, the customer relationship management tool who recently received $40 million in private equity funding from Goldman Sachs, helps organizations by increasing efficiency and control of the sales and customer service pipeline. SugarCRM joins HootSuite’s existing enterprise-focused apps such as Salesforce and Yammer, to help companies manage social marketing, social customer service, and social selling and is available immediately to HootSuite’s seven million users; and is free for all HootSuite Enterprise clients. Read the rest of this entry »

Today at Unite 2013 in Vancouver, California-based developers of award-winning facial animation and 3D real-time software Reallusion showcased the latest edition of iClone Animation Pipeline, which now includes the first universal facial control system for any 3D character. Once requiring a team of animators and weeks of work to bring characters to life, game developers who work in Unity are now able to accomplish their goals in a matter of days and with minimal production staff using the iClone Animation Pipeline. Read the rest of this entry »

From Unite 2013 in Vancouver: American 3D character animation pioneer Mixamo has announced the launch of Face Plus, a technology that brings facial animations to 3D characters with just a simple webcam and the Unity editor. Independent developers can now enrich their games with emotional experiences without the high cost and complexity of existing facial animation solutions.  With Face Plus, developers are now able to capture their own facial expressions via standard webcams and transfer them in real time onto a 3D character. A Unity plugin, Face Plus leverages the upcoming Unity 4.3 blendshape technology. Read the rest of this entry »