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HootSuite, makers of the market-leading social media management system, releases HootSuite Teams, tools aimed at serious business collaboration. With corporate social media exploding, businesses have been stuck using tools intended for the dorm room, not the boardroom. Until now. Read the rest of this entry »

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is releasing immigration heritage online kits today at the TD National Reading Summit III: A Reading Canada-Building a Plan, in Vancouver. At the event, Fabien Lengellé, Director General of the Services Branch at LAC, presented the content of the kits and how they relate to the TD National Reading Summit themes of literacy and citizenship. Read the rest of this entry »

The Digital Alberta Awards, now in its second year, is a program designed to recognize leaders in innovation, creativity and the evolving digital sector in Alberta. This year’s categories include companies, individual entrepreneurs, student and education leaders, organizations in both the government and not for profit sector, and those whose industry sectors may not traditionally be considered in the realm of ‘digital media’, but are pioneering and raising the bar as they converge with technology. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian businesses are storing more and more personal information digitally, but many are not using the technological tools or implementing the recommended practices to protect this information, a new survey has found. In light of these findings, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada reminds businesses that when using technology to safeguard personal information, sometimes small steps can prevent a big loss. Read the rest of this entry »

Canada’s largest telecommunications union has submitted a brief to the CRTC backing the demand of consumer and public interest groups for a national wireless code to protect consumer interests. As much as $4 billion is lost to consumers due to a lack of regulation in the telco industry, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada notes in its submission to the CRTC’s Telecom Notice of Consultation. Read the rest of this entry »

Paying for continuing education is a valuable benefit, but when it comes to companies offering this benefit, there is room for improvement. Forty-two per cent of chief financial officers (CFOs) interviewed for a Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey said their organizations do not reimburse staff for the continuing education units required to maintain their professional certifications. Read the rest of this entry »

Going to a movie is the most common way to spend a first date according to the results of a movie-related poll conducted by Cineplex Entertainment and Ipsos Reid. Canadians also identified “Saturday” as the preferred movie-going night and Skyfall, the latest installment in the James Bond series, as the most anticipated movie of 2012. Cineplex, as part of its celebration of 100 years of movie memories, partnered with Ipsos Reid to poll Canadians about the movies. Read the rest of this entry »

Doxim Inc., a Toronto-based provider Automated Account Opening, cloud-based Enterprise Content Management and Advanced Document Processing solutions for Financial Service Providers, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Neocog Technologies Inc. to provide secure Cloud based storage for all documents accessed by Neocog ACE CRM Users. Read the rest of this entry »

App Promo, a leading app marketing and strategy firm, has published the results from their First Annual Developer Survey that took place in April 2012. The most staggering finding from the survey was that 59% of participants indicated that the revenue generated by their most successful app was not enough to break even with development costs. In addition, 80% of participants confirmed that the revenue generated with their most successful app was not enough to support a standalone business. Read the rest of this entry »

Online accounting and bookkeeping services provider LedgersOnline Inc. announced their new online document management software as a service offering, LedgerDocs, a cloud based system for the storage, sharing and collaboration of accounting documents online. It aims to connect business owners with their bookkeepers and accountants virtually in order to manage their finances. Read the rest of this entry »