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The British Columbia Securities Commission is warning the public about Master Benefit Card Canada Ltd. (Master Benefit Card) and its affiliates. Master Benefit Card is also known as “Benefit Club”. The BCSC has reports that residents of British Columbia have been approached to join Master Benefit Card’s “membership club” and invest in a variety of “Benefit Options” or “Benefit Cards”. Read the rest of this entry »

Mobile social game and platform developer GREE has announced plans to establish a new game development studio in Vancouver. The new studio will be focused on creating new and unique free-to-play gaming experiences for mobile gamers worldwide. GREE’s Canadian studio will be headed-up by Steve Lin, a technology industry veteran and renowned retro game collector. Mr. Lin most recently served as GREE International, Inc.’s VP of Consumer Operations and coordinated the establishment of GREE’s San Francisco studio. Read the rest of this entry »

Toronto’s Top Hat Monocle, a mobile-based education platform that enables student engagement, today announced it has completed Series A financing. The $8 million round is led by Emergence Capital Partners and iNovia Capital, along with SoftTech VC, Version One Ventures (Boris Wertz) and Golden Venture Partners. Read the rest of this entry »

MiniTool Solution Ltd. has released its partition manager software MiniTool Partition Wizard 7.5 to the public. Disk Align and Partition Align, two of the most-wanted features by advanced and SSD users, are now included in this new version. Read the rest of this entry »

Clients can now control distribution with DLM: Digital Rights Management for Windows, developed by Calgary’s CrypKey. This file protection software allows virtually any data file that can be opened in a Windows environment, including proprietary software to be protected by data license manager. These include audio files, animation, documents, images and more. Read the rest of this entry »

Anti-malware company Lavasoft, the original anti-malware company, today unveiled the latest version of Ad-Aware, with breakthrough features such as a Safe Browsing system and integration with ID Watchdog. Version 10.2 of Ad-Aware offers real-time protection against malicious URLs and provides free credit report monitoring that extends the protection delivered in Ad-Aware to offer customers the most reliable online security. Read the rest of this entry »

The Branded Content Marketing Association (BCMA) announced its expansion into the United States, Canada and Mexico, steered by Doug Scott, President of OgilvyEntertainment and International Director of BCMA. The new BCMA chapter is the first trade association in North America dedicated exclusively to the development of the branded content industry. Established in the United Kingdom, the BCMA unites a distinguished network of content-led branding experts to build and grow new partnerships and drive industry growth. Read the rest of this entry »

Softchoice has announced the launch of its Softchoice Cloud Portal – a secure online platform that simplifies the purchase, deployment, management and support of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. The Softchoice Cloud Portal addresses many of the challenges organizations face controlling the proliferation of SaaS applications within today’s business environments. Read the rest of this entry »

Sharegate, the No-Brainer migration product is more powerful than ever with the release of a new tool, Copy Lists & Libraries. Recognized for its content migration tools, Sharegate now expands its expertise by offering a tool that facilitates site’s structure migration. Read the rest of this entry »

What’s the value of a tweet or Facebook “like”? That’s a key question for many marketing executives, according to a new survey from The Creative Group. More than one in four (27%) advertising and marketing executives interviewed said their greatest stumbling block when it comes to social media is measuring the success of their efforts. Finding knowledgeable staff to execute social media programs is problematic for 19% of respondents. Read the rest of this entry »