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The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has launched a new microsite in preparation for the 33^rd edition of BDC Small Business Week^™. A BDC trademark event, Small Business Week runs from October 14 to 20 under the theme Aim High! Invest in Your Future. Read the rest of this entry »

IAB Canada has announced the results of its’ 2011 Online Ad Revenue Survey and announced the expected ad spend revenues in 2012. The IAB Canada Online Ad Revenue Survey states that Online Advertising revenues rose 16% to $2.593 billion in 2011, compared to $2.232 billion in 2010. The Survey also estimates Online Ad Revenue will increase to $2.8 billion by the end of 2012. Online Advertising revenue continues to consistently narrow Television’s lead, while pulling further ahead of Newspapers, which experienced a revenue decline of 6% last year. The Internet’s share of total advertising revenue in Canada grew from 19.4% in 2010 to 21.7% in 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Sheridan College, one of the world’s leading post-secondary institutions focused on digital media storytelling, has announced a partnership with Ubisoft at the opening of Ubisoft Toronto’s state of the art performance capture studio. Sheridan and Ubisoft have agreed to work together in defining joint research projects that will foster development of virtual production and performance capture techniques in Ontario and worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian businesses are encountering increased risks of privacy breaches, both from deliberate, targeted attacks as well as employee and vendor errors and negligence. The range of data considered to be sensitive and private is growing, and includes information related to financial accounts and transactions, health care histories, asset valuations and dispositions, and personal data such as family counseling records and even e-mails. Read the rest of this entry »

Much has been said about Canada’s progressive business environment removing the glass ceiling for women in the workplace. But are our corner offices any more accessible for women today than they have been in the past? According to the findings of the recent Women in Leadership survey of 500 female managers and executives, conducted by Ipsos-Reid on behalf of Randstad Canada in late June, there are still many obstacles that women need to overcome in the workplace when striving to reach the managerial and executive ranks. Read the rest of this entry »

Sandvine, a Waterloo-based provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for fixed and mobile operators, today announced that it has received over $5 million in Network Policy Control expansion orders for a tier-1 customer in its Asia Pacific sales region. During its third quarter, Sandvine won seven new service provider customers, including two from the Asia Pacific sales region. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

California-based Pinger has announced a new iOS application for Canada. Pinger is a free phone app that turns iPads and iPods into mobile phones and adds a free phone line to iPhones. Pinger users can text and call for free to any phone in the U.S. and Canada, including smartphones, landlines and basic mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

Digital Domain Media Group, Inc. announced earlier today that it has initiated a strategic realignment that will enable it to focus its resources on its core business, Digital Domain Productions, Inc., a company focused on creating digital visual effects, CG animation and digital production for the entertainment and advertising industries. As a key part of this strategic realignment, DDMG has begun the cessation of its Port St. Lucie operations by reducing virtually its entire Port St. Lucie workforce, retaining approximately 20 employees who will remain as part of the wind-down. Read the rest of this entry »

HootSuite, makers of the market-leading social media management system, have announced the acquisition of Seesmic. HootSuite takes social business tools to the next level, allowing individuals and teams to analyze campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. HootSuite’s Free, Pro, and Enterprise clients make up close to 5 million global users spanning six continents, who send over 1.5 million messages through the dashboard each day. Notable clients include 79 of the Fortune 100 companies such as McDonalds, PepsiCo, Virgin, FOX, Sony Music among others. Read the rest of this entry »