Technology companies still dominate BrandZ's list of the world's top brands, market research agency Millward Brown has revealed. But that's not very shocking—there are technology's glory days. The big news this year is that software titan Google has been knocked off its second-place pedestal.
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Even among Apple fans, there are many Google Chrome lovers.
Fortunately for them, Safari may be on the verge of losing its relative monopoly on Apple's iOS platform: Google is expected to release a Chrome app for the iPhone and iPad this year.
Macquarie Equities Research anticipates Apple will approve Chrome for iOS "later this quarter."
However, don't get too excited—numerous limitations will prevent Chrome from being a true alternative to Safari on your smartphone or tablet.
For example, Safari will remain the only browser set to "default," which means that emails, text message,s third party app links, etc., will still open in Apple's browser.
Nearly four in 10 Canadians value the internet as much as electricity and water. 38% of us want smart appliances. 54% of us watch movies and TV shows on computers. And most of us with tablets and smartphones have at least a second screen running while watching our actual television.
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Toronto startup Engagio is becoming what it calls a "Social Conversations Network," which combines "the convenience of the social inbox utility with the power of the network via a new Engagement Discovery Dashboard." The dashboard reveals friends' conversations across whichever social networks and commenting communities they participate in.
“Users will be drawn to the Engagio dashboard because it reveals the conversations that their friends are engaging in from across the spectrum of the social web," says William Mougayar, the CEO and founder of Engagio. "It’s an engagement stream that is quite addictive.”
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Don't sell your Android device.
Seriously, don't. Getting a new one? That's fine. Tuck your old one in your closet. Better yet, drill a hole through its hardrive or take a sledgehammer to the thing.
Just. Don't. Sell. It.
read moreToronto-born Uberflip, a cloud-based PDF enhancement tool with embeddable social widgets like YouTube videos, finished 4th at the Road to Banff Canada 3.0 competition. It has since held a high ranking in recent weeks in the Google Chrome Store’s Marketing & Analytics section.
Yesterday, Facebook launched the App Center. Facebook’s App Center will allow all platforms to be listed whether they be iOS, Android, Blackberry, Mango, or Web. Uberflip’s COO Randy Frisch says they are working on that now. As mobile app stores have been incredibly popular, we're now beginning to see web stores beyond e-commerce.
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Last week, BroadbandTV, the largest online video aggregator in Canada, announced the launch of their first social video fundraiser. Now the three year old startup is seeking global support for a local cause. VISO, BroadbandTV’s consumer-facing YouTube channel, has reached out to its network of 5,000 video content creators from around the world to help tell the story of Mission Possible, a local charity that helps residents in one of Canada’s poorest postal codes find jobs.
Google's Street View feature in Maps is fun, but it's frustrating when you can't do more than look at the exterior signage of businesses. Fortunately, the software giant has now made this possible.
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TechCrunch's Ingrid Lunden is reporting that Vancouver social media darling HootSuite is in the process of raising a $50 million round at a staggering $500 million valuation from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google.
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Some of the most prolific Canadian broadcasters Canadians have ever known since the beginnings of widespread television in the 1950s have fallen prey to YouTube’s seven-year rise in terms of Canadian content production.
Google’s Jacob Glick, who does Senior Policy Counsel for Canada, said at Canada 3.0 that Canadian content has had huge runaway success online. That shouldn’t come as a surprise; we spend more time on the Internet than any other country in the world.
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