Canadian Tire has selected BlackBerry as its official smartphone for its corporate team across Canada. Employees from across the Canadian Tire family of companies, including Canadian Tire Retail, Canadian Tire Financial Services, Mark’s and FGL Sports (Sport Chek, Sports Experts,…
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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates, a global communications and information company, has signed a contract with the Canadian Space Agency valued at CA$81 million (around $79.69 million) to provide engineering and operational support for its robotic elements on the International Space…
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Microsoft has released its first law enforcement report, for the year 2012. The report provides data on the number of requests the company received from law enforcement agencies around the world, relating to Microsoft online and cloud services, and elaborates…
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Mike Lazaridis and Doug Fregin, who together founded BlackBerry, have partnered again to establish Quantum Valley Investments, a $100 million private fund focusing on quantum information science. Quantum Valley Investments is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Mike Lazaridis: Nothing you see…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] An advertising deal signed between AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo has now been extended to include Microsoft in Canada. Under terms of the deal, AOL will have the ability to offer premium non-reserved owned and operated display inventory from…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Vestec has secured a $1.5 million equity investment from V. Raman Kumar, founder and former CEO of clinical documentation company MModal. Mr. Kumar has joined Vestec’s board as vice chairman. He will also oversee the development of products and…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Improvements in technology, and lowered barriers to entry, enabled indie game developers in 2012 to address and develop for more platforms than ever before. 95% developers continued to make games for the browser and 86% planned to make…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] In a coordinated international takedown, law enforcement officials in Romania, the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom and Canada, acting on provisional arrest requests made by the United States, arrested six Romanian nationals for their alleged involvement in a…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Google has acquired Canada-based startup BufferBox for an undisclosed amount. Bufferbox team: We have been able to achieve more than we could have ever imagined since we started working on our idea a couple years ago, and the…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] Canadian speech-technology and artificial company Vestec has secured $6.4 million in funding from Sansar Private Equity Partners as part of its second institutional round of fund raising. Sansar has purchased $3 million of stock and obtained warrants with…
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