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Members of industry, government and academia gathered April 24-25 in Stratford for the fourth annual CDMN Canada 3.0 2012 digital media forum, to accelerate the Moonshot goal that anyone in Canada can do anything online by 2017. Emerging companies OpenEra of Ottawa, Qwalify from Waterloo Region, and XYZ Interactive of Toronto left the forum tops in a field of 50 companies in the Road to Banff® Pitch-Off competition. Another entrepreneur, Hannah Chapplain, the first musician to present her business as a digital media entrepreneurial venture in the Road to Banff competition, reached her funding goal of $25,000 at the event. Read the rest of this entry »

The Search Agency, a California-based global digital marketing agency that combines high-tech and high-touch strategies to help customers find and acquire the right audiences, today announced its expansion into Canada with the purchase of The Acquisition Agency, a Toronto-based digital marketing firm that provides its services to many leading companies. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine, a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators,  announced earlier today that it has won a significant initial order from a converged Asian service provider, whose broadband network ranks among the five largest in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »

Paying for continuing education is a valuable benefit, but when it comes to companies offering this benefit, there is room for improvement. Forty-two per cent of chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed for a Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey said their organizations do not reimburse staff for the continuing education units required to maintain their professional certifications. Read the rest of this entry »

Spurred by numerous recent media reports of employers requesting Facebook passwords from job candidates, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner, Dr. Ann Cavoukian, launched a paper today to provide Ontarians with practical advice on how to protect their online privacy in the increasingly complex social media world. Read the rest of this entry »

comScore, Inc. has announced the Canadian launch of its validated Campaign Essentials™ (vCE) product, a new measurement solution for validating digital ad delivery. vCE enables a holistic view of campaign delivery and a verified assessment of ad-exposed audiences via a single, third-party source. Unlike existing single-point solutions, it provides an unduplicated accounting of impressions delivered across a variety of dimensions, such as ads delivered in-view, in the right geography, in a brand safe environment, absent of fraudulent delivery and to a particular target audience. Read the rest of this entry »

Via Trade Commissioners Vancouver Office & digiBC: If you have a mobile game for Android and are interested in getting on PapapyaMobile”s North American or China platforms, you should join this event.  If you are interested in a one-on-one meeting with Papaya following the event, please contact Victoria Hayes at the Trade Commissioner’s Office. Read the rest of this entry »

Funcom is excited to share that 200,000 participants are now engaged in battle through ‘The Secret War’, a unique browser-based social experience that draws upon the conflict between the three secret societies in Funcom’s upcoming massively multiplayer online game ‘The Secret World’. Launching on June 19^th, 2012, ‘The Secret World’ MMO pitches players against each other as they fight for the power to control the world for their secret society, and through ‘The Secret War’ social experience, participants can get a taste of the epic conflict that hits on June 19^th. Read the rest of this entry »

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 Contributions Program, which will provide $500,000 this year for projects that explore emerging and evolving privacy issues of interest to Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »

On the eve of an exceptional year for Canadian coproduction at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2012), Telefilm Canada announces that the five-year total (2006 to 2010) for the volume of Canadian feature film treaty coproduction budgets amounts to $1.02 billion. This total includes the domestic and foreign budgets of 111 Canadian feature film international coproductions. Canadian feature film coproductions also earned 165 awards from around the world in the same time period, most notably the Canada-France title Incendies (2011) and the minority Canadian Polish-German feature In Darkness(2012) were Oscar nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film. Read the rest of this entry »