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The Huawei-TELUS Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services opened today at Carleton University. The centre,  located in Carleton’s new engineering building, was created through a $1.4 million investment made by Huawei and TELUS. Read the rest of this entry »

Cause for celebration and planning! SIGGRAPH, the world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, announces site selections for its 2013 (Anaheim) and 2014 (Vancouver) North American conferences. 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 »

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 »

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 »

The Canada Media Fund (CMF) has announced the appointment of Maurice Boucher as director of marketing and communications. In the course of his duties, Boucher will support the strategic objectives of the CMF by providing opinions and advice on internal and external communications to the board of directors and executive team. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian Tire Corporation has deployed the Vendor Management System from Soft Solutions, with ibs Referential Vendor Management becoming the latest module that Canadian Tire has licensed from the California-based Soft Solutions, to accomplish the full coverage of their Master Data Management (MDM). Read the rest of this entry »