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Many Canadian organizations continue to face tough budget considerations and holiday celebrations may be a casualty at some workplaces this year. A new survey commissioned by the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) reveals that nearly four-in-ten (39 per cent) of respondents aren’t having a party this year. But of those who typically do have a celebration, half (56 per cent) said they would be understanding if they found out that spending for this year’s office holiday party was being scaled back or cancelled altogether due to economic concerns. Read the rest of this entry »

Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Primus Telecommunications Group, Incorporated, has announced that construction has begun on a new high density Data Centre facility in Markham to meet the spiking demand among GTA businesses for mission critical and business continuity solutions. This newest member of Primus Canada’s national footprint of 8 data centres is designed to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, will be certified by the Uptime Institute as a Tier III site, and will offer advanced Disaster Recovery features. Read the rest of this entry »

Collabware has entered into a strategic partnership with Markham-based eSCRIBE Paperless Solutions, a provider of integrated paperless legislative that meeting management solutions for public and private sector boards, committees and councils based exclusively on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Shaw Communications has announced the next generation of Canada’s fastest Internet, with the launch of the nation’s first 100 Gigabit per second (Gbit/s) fibre-optic network. The network, delivered by Alcatel-Lucent, has the capability of carrying up to eighty-eight 100 Gbit/s channels over a single pair of fibres. The result is a game-changing network able to handle up to 133 million voice calls, 440,000 HDTV channels, or transmit 44 Blu-ray Discs in one second. Read the rest of this entry »

Indigo Books & Music Inc. and internet service company Rakuten, Inc. have announced that Rakuten has agreed to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Kobo Inc. on a fully diluted basis for US$315 million. Led by Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis, Kobo will continue to function as a stand-alone operation with its headquarters, management team, and employees based in Toronto. Read the rest of this entry »

Campus Stores Canada has announced that it will affiliate with CampusEbookstore.com, allowing its members the ability to sell e-books online. This partnership will give students across Canada access to more than 250,000 commercial and public-domain e-book titles through Google eBooks. Campus Ebookstore is owned and operated in Canada and the United States by The Canadian Campus Retail Associates Inc. (CCRA), and the Independent College Bookstore Association Inc (ICBA). Read the rest of this entry »

Web content optimization company Strangeloop has announced the infusion of $10 million in Series B funding from a private investment group. The funding comes on the heels of the introduction of the Strangeloop Mobile Site Optimizer, the first website acceleration solution designed from the ground up to meet the specific needs of mobile users. Read the rest of this entry »

TransGaming Inc., a leader in the multiplatform deployment of interactive entertainment, today announced that GameTree TV™, the premier on-demand interactive entertainment platform for Smart TV, has been downloaded by 250,000 users in the six months since its commercial launch. TransGaming expects GameTree TV to reach more than 1 million users in its first year. Read the rest of this entry »

Employee global rewards and Social Recognition company Achievers (formerly I Love Rewards) has announced that its CEO and founder, Razor Suleman, has been named the Ontario Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year®. Read the rest of this entry »

IT hosting provider PEER 1 has launched its public cloud division Zunicore offering Zunicore Cloud Hosting. Built with the business professional in mind, this solution offers users a high degree of control and flexibility, and leverages the established infrastructure of PEER 1 Hosting’s wholly-owned FastFiber Network™. Read the rest of this entry »