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BCIC – New Ventures BC Competition has named The Top 15 competitors who will advance to Round 3 automatically, along with the 26 companies  who will move to Round 2.5, where they will be assigned temporary mentors. These 26 companies will pitch in-person for a chance to be one of the additional 10 companies to advance to Round 3. Read the rest of this entry »

The Canada Media Fund announced today that it contributed more than $3.8 million dollars in 13 projects that applied to the Francophone Minority Program in the first round. Since its inception in 2010, the CMF has supported a total of 71 projects by providing more than $23 million to francophone minority productions. Read the rest of this entry »

JUICE Mobile is dedicated to informing the advertising & publishing community on the rapidly changing mobile marketplace. Unlike traditional research firms, which often use samples and panels to speculate on mobile trends, JUICE draws on actual monthly data from its own infrastructure to identify the trends taking place in the marketplace. This approach thereby gives the truest mobile data available to brands, agencies and publishers who are planning and executing in the connected space. Read the rest of this entry »

Boast Capital is proud to announce a partnership with Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley to launch Startup Camp Canada, an initiative to support and grow the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector in Alberta.
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Sunwarrior, a company located in Southern Nevada that creates raw, plant-based supplements on an international scale, has announced that Vancouverite Sarah Edmondson has joined their ambassador team. With a versatile career spanning film, television, theatre, and voice, Sarah continues to explore and cultivate a path into the creative unknown. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s SideBuy.com knows how competitive local marketing can be for small businesses so they launched a new section of their website to help them get started. Sidebuy.com acts as search engine for all daily coupons giving consumers a variety of ways to search through the numerous deals and coupons that are available. Getting the attention of these potential customers takes time and resources that many restaurant owners, bakeries, car repair shops and retailers simply do not have. Now, with a few clicks, they can be on their way to increasing the traffic through their front door. Read the rest of this entry »

Finalé Post Production and Technicolor Creative Services have entered into a strategic partnership to provide Technicolor “Color Certified” Digital Intermediate (DI) Finishing services in Vancouver. Finalé Post Production will acquire and integrate Technicolor Vancouver’s existing DI Theatre into their newly expanded facility. The transaction includes exclusive certification for Technicolor’s leading color science, as well as ongoing servicing of its film, television and commercial projects finishing in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

EXFO Inc. and US-based RAD Data Communications have announced the availability of their new integrated solution for end-to-end monitoring of data networks. This solution will lower operators’ capital expenses (CAPEX) by reducing network implementation time dramatically – from months to weeks or even days. As well, the joint solution slashes operational expenses by enabling faster and more detailed fault diagnoses and reduced mean-time-to-repair (MTTR). Read the rest of this entry »

Det Norske Teatret, a high-profile performing arts venue in Norway, has successfully deployed AudienceView as its ticketing and customer relationship management (CRM) solution. Located in the center of Oslo, the critically acclaimed theater presents a diverse annual program of in-house and outside productions in three multidisciplinary auditoriums. Seating configurations vary to accommodate audiences from 120 to 1,050.

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Leading creator, producer and distributor Shaftesbury has announced a renewed sponsorship commitment to the Toronto District School Board’s Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). As part of its ongoing support of the school, Shaftesbury will donate $30,000 over the next three years to the ESA Film program. Shaftesbury has also announced winners in the inaugural Shaftesbury Student Filmmaker Awards, in order to recognize achievement at each grade level of the ESA Film program. The awards were announced at ESA on Thursday, May 17 by The Listener’s Ennis Esmer (Season 3 premieres May 30 on CTV). Read the rest of this entry »