Village Gamer

Just weeks after selling the adaptation rights of the TV series Isabel to NBC, the Sphère Média Plus production house has officially opened an office in Toronto. Immediately following this announcement, the production house named the Toronto producer Carolyn Newman as its VP of Development, English Markets, North America. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Media and Rogers Communications announced today a significant long-term agreement for the continued distribution of all Shaw Media services, including top-performing channels like History Television, HGTV Canada, Showcase, as well as on-demand rights to Global TV content. With this deal, Rogers cable customers will continue to have access to some of the best in lifestyle and drama programming through the Rogers Digital VIP package and RogersOnDemand.com. Read the rest of this entry »

Top online wine retailer Wine.com, which is based in California, has selected Vancouver’s Strangeloop Networks to accelerate its website, delivering a faster user experience for its visitors. With more than a million registered users and an inventory of 13,000+ products, Wine.com has seen huge growth in the past year alone. In 2011, the company shipped more than two million bottles of wine, a 35% increase over the previous year. In addition to offering wine and wine-related gifts and accessories, the website houses a growing online community of more than 32,000 members who provide customer reviews and ratings, as well as creating and sharing personal wine lists. Read the rest of this entry »

AOL Canada commemorates 2011 by revealing their most-searched terms and most shared stories of the year from popular categories including: news, celebs, politics-business, memes, movies and more! Demonstrating its understanding of relevant online conversations, AOL and The Huffington Post Canada unveil the top 10 lists that resonated among Canadians from the spectacle that was the Royal Wedding to the passing of former NDP leader, Jack Layton. Read the rest of this entry »

Large companies will enter into a new era of records management with a new solution introduced today by OpenText™. OpenText Auto-Classification is the first automated classification application with built-in transparency and defensibility, giving organizations a powerful way to manage the retention and disposition of high-volume, low-touch content such as social media, email, office documents and legacy content, to reduce legal risk and eDiscovery costs. Read the rest of this entry »

iStockphoto today announced an aggressive new referral program that rewards participants with their choice of $20, 20 credits or 20 percent commission on all first-time purchases by customers they generate. Newly referred iStockers are also awarded 10 free credits just for setting up an account. Read the rest of this entry »

The ongoing efforts of local First Nations to share their cultures with their communities and the world at large has resulted in a venture that will not only enhance that mandate, but also provide a viable business opportunity for local and regional indigenous artists to gain valuable marketing and sales support for their art and their livelihood. Read the rest of this entry »

The perceived risk of cybercrime to Canadian organizations is on the rise according to a new report on economic crime from PwC. The 2011 Global Economic Crime Survey ranks cybercrime as one of the top four economic crimes (23%), slightly behind accounting fraud and bribery and corruption (24%). Asset misappropriation (or theft) is the top crime, reported by 72% of organizations around the world who were victims of economic crime in the past year. Read the rest of this entry »

Rogers Digital Media announced today the launch of RDeals, a new daily deals site that brings local and national finds to Canadians for up to 90 per cent off the original price. Beginning today, RDeals offers national deals across Canada (excluding Quebec), as well as local daily deals to the Greater Toronto Area on quality-branded products and services, including food, fashion, technology, vacations, spa treatments, fitness classes, and more. Read the rest of this entry »

AlertPay, a Montreal-based secure online payment processing service for e-commerce sites said today that it has launched a real time security monitoring platform named “FraudMatrix”.  The company reports that its new platform is more than just a monitoring system, the technology learns and adapts to patterns which enables it to instantly identify suspicious activity. Read the rest of this entry »