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Edmonton is home to the Greater Edmonton Regional Technology Alliance, Canada’s first and only grouping of incubators that nourishes the growth of emerging knowledge-based companies and coordinates the region’s business incubators. Read the rest of this entry »

Redknee Solutions Inc., an Ontario-based  provider of business-critical billing and charging software and solutions for communications service providers, and Tech Mahindra, a global systems integrator and business transformation consulting organization focused on the communications industry with offices in Canada, has announced the availability of Telco-in-a-Box, a solution that will provide MVNO/Es with a low-risk, flexible approach that can be launched to the market in weeks. Read the rest of this entry »

Knightscove Media Corp., a Canadian distributor of family entertainment, announced today the execution of the definitive agreements regarding its acquisition of fifty-one percent (51%) of Toronto-based FDR Media Group Inc., a Canadian diversity-focused media company, broadcasting original and library HD programming in both Hindi and English. Knightscove previously announced its intention to acquire FDR on August 2^ND, 2011. The transaction is subject to formal regulatory approval from both the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the TSX Venture Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »

Markham-based Qdata inc. and the Viascan Group Inc. of Montreal are entering into a definitive merger agreement creating Canada’s leading company in the barcoding, RFID, and wireless networking industry. Read the rest of this entry »

Real time, experiential social communications platform provider Ortsbo accelerated to more than 107 Million Unique users for the 30 day period of January 25, 2012 to February 23, 2012. The actual results of 107,771,092 Unique Users for the period represents an increase of 167% since Ortsbo’s last reported results on November 10, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

Building on its success as a specialized IT services investment firm in the United States, Technology Capital Investors (TCI) announced today it has broadened its reach into Canada — opening a new office in the Toronto area as TCI Canada.  Read the rest of this entry »

The Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario), today delivered a keynote speech at the Creative Economy Summit where he announced a $4.85 million investment from the Government of Canada that will help eight Toronto-area start-up businesses get their innovative products and ideas to market faster, and create jobs and economic growth in southern Ontario. Read the rest of this entry »

Astral Out-of-Home, a division of Astral Media Inc., innovates once again by announcing the adoption of Near Field Communication technology for its street furniture in Toronto and Montréal. The technology provides consumers with a totally new experience by allowing them to interact directly with advertising faces via their smartphone to get all kinds of information instantly and securely. Read the rest of this entry »

Hibernia Management and Development Company Ltd. (HMDC), operator of the Hibernia platform, announced today that it has invested $1.9 million to support Let’s Talk Science, a national, charitable science outreach organization, in Newfoundland and Labrador. Read the rest of this entry »

According to a recent survey of small and medium business owners and IT decision makers, Canadian businesses are leaving themselves increasingly vulnerable to the loss of data and the potential for a privacy breach despite a series of high-profile incidents in which confidential information on company servers have been compromised. Read the rest of this entry »