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While organizations need an influx of fresh ideas, their efforts may be hindered as staff are often too busy juggling their day-to-day responsibilities and dealing with problems that arise, results of a recent Robert Half survey suggest. Nearly half (49 per cent) of chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed blamed being bogged down with daily tasks or putting out fires as the greatest barrier to their company being more innovative. Read the rest of this entry »

Intertainment Media Inc. has announced a 20% ownership investment in Toronto’s Tunezy, Inc., a startup company featuring a disruptive social platform for the recorded music industry. This investment by Intertainment is yet another in a growing list of technology startups the Company is becoming involved in that are poised to deliver new modes of consumer engagement. Tunezy recently won an entrepreneurship competition held at the National Business & Technology Conference (NBTC) in March, which helped validate the company’s business model.
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Small and medium-sized businesses across Canada can now find and better target prospective customers with an easy-to-use online tool offered by Canada Post. Precision Targeter allows businesses to zero in on their target customers at the neighbourhood level based on demographic information such as household income, education, age and marital status. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media has announced that its Wildbrain Entertainment subsidiary has selected Jazwares^™,a leader in the licensed products marketplace, to expand the Yo Gabba Gabba! toy line.  Jazwares, which joins a robust consumer products program that boasts over 40 licensees in the U.S., is the brand’s master toy license and will manufacture, market and distribute a line of preschool toys based on the award-winning television series. Yo Gabba Gabba!, created by Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, is produced by The Magic Store and W!LDBRAIN Entertainment and airs multiple times a day, seven days a week on Nick Jr. Read the rest of this entry »

VoIP and NAT-traversal software developer Eyeball Networks has announced the re-release of its AnyFirewall Developers Community site to provide VoIP application developers, service providers and device makers additional tools and resources to tackle one of the biggest barriers to mass adoption of VoIP. Read the rest of this entry »

The Governments of Canada and Ontario, with IBM and a consortium of seven universities led by the University of Toronto and Western University today announced they are collaborating to establish a new Ontario-based $210 million dollar research and development initiative that will create 145 new highly skilled jobs in Ontario and a new economic cornerstone for the country. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian tech startup companies now have a new avenue to commercialize innovations, scale their businesses faster and achieve market success with the introduction of Communitech’s HYPERDRIVE program that will provide capital of up to $700,000 for high-potential companies – with a  $30 million program to draw on. Backed by key investment firms and angel funders, service providers, strategic partners and mentors, Communitech plans to put innovation into HYPERDRIVE. Read the rest of this entry »

TELUS has announced the official opening of the company’s first Next Generation store. Located in the Carrefour Laval, in the city of Laval, Québec, the completely remodeled TELUS Store is designed with one clear mission – to bring the TELUS suite of products to life in-store and to better inform, empower and assist customers in choosing the technology that best meets their communications needs. Read the rest of this entry »

Softchoice has announced that 12 employees are en route to Bali Indonesia for a two-week humanitarian mission in support of the Widhya Asih Foundation (WAF). The Softchoice team will be providing technology infrastructure to help ‘bridge the digital divide’ on behalf of the roughly 500 orphaned Balinese children that WAF supports. The mission was made possible by the fundraising efforts of Softchoice’s employees and the assistance of industry partners. Read the rest of this entry »

7L, a leading provider of server colocation, web server hosting, and other Toronto data center solutions, has expanded their services to include secure colocation cages and private colocation suites in their 90,000 sq.ft building. The move comes in response to an increase in IT hosting service demand in Canada. Read the rest of this entry »