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Leading creator, producer and distributor Shaftesbury has announced a renewed sponsorship commitment to the Toronto District School Board’s Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA). As part of its ongoing support of the school, Shaftesbury will donate $30,000 over the next three years to the ESA Film program. Shaftesbury has also announced winners in the inaugural Shaftesbury Student Filmmaker Awards, in order to recognize achievement at each grade level of the ESA Film program. The awards were announced at ESA on Thursday, May 17 by The Listener’s Ennis Esmer (Season 3 premieres May 30 on CTV). Read the rest of this entry »

Prestige, perks, and powerful partnerships are just a few of the benefits HYPERDRIVE, Communitech’s new tech accelerator, will enjoy as it officially joins the ranks of the influential and innovative organizations that comprise the Global Accelerator Network (GAN). Created in 2010 in conjunction with the White House Startup America Initiative, the Network currently includes most of the top accelerators in the world including TechStars, Excelerate Labs, StartupBootcamp and Springboard. Read the rest of this entry »

OneDesk Inc., provider of the world’s first all-in-one customer-centric solution for innovators, engineers, marketers, support, and product managers, is pleased to announce the addition of a new navigational tool: The On-Ramp. OneDesk bridges the gap between product teams and breaks down the silos that stifle productivity. It unifies employees, business partners and customers to facilitate collaboration and create products and services that meet market’s needs, fast. Read the rest of this entry »

Faced with global skills shortages, many Canadian employers are turning to global resourcing to find and attract talent, but when asked whether that will continue to be the case over the long-term, their answer is: we don’t know. According to a recent survey of Canadian business decision-makers commissioned by Randstad Technologies and IBM Canada, the IT staffing outlook for 2012, almost half of the survey respondents say they currently use global resourcing, in contrast with approximately one-third in 2009 and 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

Communitech‘s HYPERDRIVE is top of mind for tech talent and financial backers alike as excitement over the startup incubator continues to grow. Seed round partners Canrock Ventures and the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) share in the enthusiasm, with only two weeks left to submit applications for a coveted spot in the program. Read the rest of this entry »

Youth Science Canada (YSC) has announced the recipients of the Research In Motion (RIM) Platinum Awards – given to three of Canada’s best and brightest science students at the awards ceremony for the 2012 Canada-Wide Science Fair. Chosen for their innovative and groundbreaking science projects, the winners were selected from 400 top projects among their peers in three different age categories: Read the rest of this entry »

SOTI, a Mississauga-based developer of Enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM), today announced an updated version of its MobiControl Software Developer Kit (SDK) for iOS. Leveraging SOTI’s rich history of innovation in the MDM space, the updated SDK introduces live Remote View support for customers deploying iOS applications. Read the rest of this entry »

Web-based driver risk management solutions provider AlertDriving has announced that the company’s FleetDefense^SM platform now takes advantage of the Akamai Intelligent Platform™ to optimize performance for end users around the globe. Read the rest of this entry »

Xoom Data Services, Inc. has launched the newest versions of the acclaimed Xoomfile software.  Version 3 is a significant leap forward in both speed and usability with the interface adopting a more comfortable feel for the common user.  Add to this the use of GPU encryption and compression that they’re best known for and the software becomes one of the most powerful, biz-app with super-computing to date. Read the rest of this entry »

The Penguins in The Desert Productions team will be holding “The Metroid Marathon” to support Big Brothers Big Sisters St.Catharines – Thorold & District. The event is a third party fundraising effort that is being put together to aid in mentorship programs and making successful matches for children. Read the rest of this entry »