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The Social Media paradigm is now extending to the funding of start-up companies, according to Canada’s largest high-tech organization CATAAlliance, and Canada is in danger of falling behind the U.S. in enabling small business to access capital. Read the rest of this entry »

High technology supplier of security systems and software Viscount Systems Inc. has announced that it will launch a new version of its application, Freedom, that works with Microsoft Windows Azure to offer customers enhanced security, as well as innovative user interface features and reliability improvements. As a new member of the Microsoft Partner Network Viscount is now authorized to use the Powered by Windows Azure logo on its Freedom cloud software application and list Freedom in the Windows Azure marketplace. Read the rest of this entry »

Searching for a new job in 2012 is nothing like it used to be even just five years ago. Today, most of us use some form of social media on a daily basis, but according to Randstad Canada, the country’s leader for staffing, recruitment and HR Services, it’s important for jobseekers to job search with social media and to use the power of social media as a viable tool to advance their career. Read the rest of this entry »

Discovery Air Innovations (DAI), in collaboration with the Canadian Transportation Research Forum, is pleased to announce the first annual Hybrid Air Vehicle (HAV) student paper competition.  DAI, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Discovery Air, is sponsoring the event to help foster the academic development of Heavy Lift Hybrid Air Vehicles in North America. Read the rest of this entry »

March Networks^®, a global provider of intelligent IP video solutions, has announced that Woolworths Limited – an Australian company with extensive retail interests throughout Australia and New Zealand – is deploying new Visual Intelligence software across thousands of existing March Networks video recording systems in a phased upgrade program. The software delivers enhanced live monitoring and searching capabilities that make it even easier for the retailer to centrally manage surveillance video used for security and loss prevention in more than 1,300 remote locations. Read the rest of this entry »

Linux desktop virtualization developer Userful Corporation has released the next generation of its Userful MultiSeat™ solution which turns one Linux computer into multiple high performance independent computer stations using the HP t200 thin client. At $99 including the keyboard and mouse, the HP t200 is the world’s lowest cost thin client device. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s weak innovation performance is partly a result of Canadian business leaders’ sometimes inaccurate beliefs about the innovation environment, according to a Conference Board of Canada report based on results from the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Survey 2011-12. Read the rest of this entry »

BMO Financial Group donated $500,000 to Science World’s Bridging the Science Gap capital campaign at a ceremony yesterday during the BMO Power of Blue Day. The donation will go towards the naming of the new “Our World: BMO Sustainability Gallery”, which explores how everyday choices concerning electricity, water consumption and waste can affect the world and impact the future. 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 »

SOCAN CEO Eric Baptiste has unveiled the music performing rights organization’s refreshed brand identity, including a new logo. SOCAN’s new brand will be reflected in the design and content of all of its marketing and communications materials, as well as on its website and social media pages. Read the rest of this entry »