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The digital gaming revolution is in full effect and EA is leading the charge. Electronic Arts Inc. has announced that it continues to break new ground in the free-to-play gaming market with a community of active players that has reached 25 million worldwide. Pioneering the fast-growing freemium gaming category is a centerpiece in EA’s strategy to reinvent itself as a leader in digital gaming. Read the rest of this entry »

Mr. Claude Gagnon introduced this day a motion to authorize the institution of a class action against the corporation Bell Expressvu regarding the charging since June 1^st, 2010 of an annual interest rate of 42.58% on the amounts paid after the expiry date prescribed for payment. Read the rest of this entry »

EMI Music and Stingray Digital, operators of VOD and Cable Properties Concert TV, The KARAOKE Channel, and Galaxie, have signed a content agreement that will give Stingray Digital access to EMI Music’s library of music and concert videos. This content will appear across the range of Stingray’s products on a worldwide basis, on Digital Cable, IPTV, mobile, web and TV-Everywhere platforms. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Inc. has announced that it granted options to purchase 1,388,000 common shares under the Company’s stock option plan, of which 389,000 were granted to directors and officers. The granted options have an exercise price of $0.475 (being the January 10, 2012 closing price of the shares on the TSX Venture Exchange), vest 1/4 each year on June 1 from 2012-2015, and expire on January 11, 2017.The stock option grants remain subject to acceptance for filing by the TSX Venture Exchange under Policy 4.4 (“Incentive Stock Options”) of the TSX Venture Exchange Corporate Finance Manual.

Global eReading provider Kobo Inc. has announced the successful acquisition of all its outstanding shares by Rakuten, Inc.for US $315 million. The acquisition has been completed following customary closing conditions, including approval under the Investment Canada Act. Kobo’s management team will remain with the company, which will continue to be headquartered in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

With over 25 years of workforce management experience, Synerion has more than 5,500 installations worldwide, tracking over 4,000,000 employees in a wide range of industries. Synerion’s goal is to help organizations operate more effectively and efficiently through their workforce management solutions. The company has now introduced their Recruitment Solution Software to further assist Canadian companies and organizations on their road to success. Read the rest of this entry »

Vancouver’s SmarttNet has announced the beta release of Themeswell, a theme design platform for WordPress aimed at web designers and developers who want to spend more time designing and less time coding, so they can deploy websites faster. The beta period will last for the next four weeks, and Smartt has invited users to trial the product and share comments online. Read the rest of this entry »

Now shipping, the ViXS XCode^® 5100 family, the first commercially deployed, quad stream HD transcoder, sets a new milestone as ViXS delivers over 30 Million XCode Multimedia Processors. With unsurpassed performance, ultra low latency and a suite of application software, the XCode^® 5100 family is the smart network multimedia processor of choice for delivering the Connected Digital Home experience today. Read the rest of this entry »

Merging Media TO has named the 24 digital and conventional media professionals selected for its MMTO: Transmedia seminar+lab with international transmedia expert Anita Ondine on Jan 19-20. The organizers were delighted by all the interesting submissions received with engaging transmedia projects in development from across Canada – including applications from Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Media has just announced that it has filed an application with the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a regional, Global BC-driven all-news specialty channel. Shaw Media is expected to launch B.C.’s first all-news channel by the summer of 2012. Read the rest of this entry »