Village Gamer

As CFO and COO of FuseTalk, Tom is responsible for all aspects of the company’s financial, operating and administrative activities including M&A, financing, performance measurement, financial and board reporting, human resources, the company’s day-to-day operating activities, including revenue and sales growth; expense, cost and margin control; and monthly, quarterly and annual financial goal management. Tom’s experience includes strategic financial facilitation, M&A, financial and business planning, systems development and implementation, process engineering, and financial management. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Route1 Inc., a security and identity management company that provides solutions to the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Federal Courts, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and a myriad of other organizations, today addressed the vulnerable state of pcAnywhere following Symantec’s warning to its users of its remote control software advising them to disable it. Read the rest of this entry »

Bluedrop Performance Learning started a new era of business when the TSX Venture Exchange opened this past Friday. A recently completed business transaction with Serebra Learning Corporation will see Bluedrop, long recognized as a pioneer and thought leader in eLearning, become Canada’s largest full service eLearning company. It becomes one of the few technology companies from Atlantic Canada to cross over the Public trading threshold. Read the rest of this entry »

Businesses and entrepreneurs can now make Android apps that include interactive maps and navigation features using Andromo App Maker for Android. Andromo is a free web-based service for creating professional Android apps without programming. The service, owned by Indigo Rose Software Corporation, allows anyone to make an app and reach an audience of millions. Read the rest of this entry »

Crowdsourced market intelligence companies Chaordix™ and Genius Crowds™ have announced the launch of a newly-enhanced crowdsourcing platform where consumers, industry experts and marketers collaborate on new product ideas. Genius Crowds operates one of the leading crowdsourcing communities (3,000+ members) that helps pave the path from product idea to market, and provides a channel for everyday people to get great ideas out of their heads and onto the shelf. Read the rest of this entry »

The payment landscape in Canada is rapidly evolving and stakeholders are facing a number of challenges, including engagement of merchants and consumers and determining the appropriate business model, not to mention mitigating privacy and security risks. The Canadian Institute will be hosting a forum in Toronto this April to address these important issues. Read the rest of this entry »

Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) has announced that The Accessible Channel-TACtv will be rebranded as AMI-tv. In 2010 the non-profit AMI changed its name from the National Broadcast Reading Service to Accessible Media Inc., reflecting the addition of The Accessible Channel broadcast license to the VoicePrint reading service. Since then AMI has consolidated its corporate, TV and VoicePrint websites into one, AMI.ca. Read the rest of this entry »

Visa Canada and Imperial Parking Canada Corporation (Impark) have announced they are partnering to bring Visa payWave contactless payments to 72 of its attended parking facilities across Canada. As of January 2012, drivers at participating parking lots will be able to simply “wave and go”, when purchasing parking at a payWave enabled Impark parking lot. Read the rest of this entry »

DHX Media Ltd. has resumed its automatic share purchase plan which it had previously suspended in order to facilitate repurchases of its common shares during company imposed black-out periods under its previously announced Normal Course Issuer Bid. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian IT solutions integrator Scalar Decisions has announced the launch of their RenderCloud project, which will see a number of British Columbia digital media studios move to a high-performance cloud computing model to render their digital productions, availing of Scalar’s centralized IT facilities at the Centre for Digital Media on the Great Northern Way Campus in Vancouver. Read the rest of this entry »