A new survey reveals the car may be our new aphrodisiac. 36% of Canadians, including half of those under 35, report that driving a sexy car makes them feel more attractive.
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Victoria-based IdeaConnection is unveiling a Canadian crowdfunding service with a unique business model next month.
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Bait cars have been so successful in capturing thieves in BC that the system has inspired spinoffs for bait computers and bait bicycles. In fact, a team of youth in Vancouver is developing a reality television show based on a bicycle with a GPS-broadcasting device hidden inside the frame.
Meanwhile, RCMP in the Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge this week announced the recovery of four laptops stolen from local schools, thanks to tracking devices installed by the school district. It was the technology's first real-world test and passed with flying colours.
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Canada's Allstream, a business communications provider, announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit theater award for Collaboration Partner of the Year in Canada.
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Toronto-based game developer XMG Studio has released their next mobile game.
Designed by fashion lovers for fashion lovers, Fashion Star Boutique is an "innovative fashion experience" that is inspired by runways around the world and teaches aspiring designers how to manage their own line of apparel and their own clothing store.
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Parta Dialogue, which is headquartered in Montreal, has launched its eValue Social Media ROI Suite.
Meaningfully measuring social media's return on investment is a challenging but highly demanded goal that Parta is not alone in trying to achieve—Vancouver startup HootSuite is one of many companies attempting to calculate the ROI of social media. Google is another.
Parta's eValue Social Media ROI Suite is a set of software-as-a service tools designed to "calculate the performance of corporate social media campaigns by comparing natural engagement behavior of online communities against the paid promotion and management efforts deployed by companies to build these followings."
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While it's too late to submit nominations for the majority of categories in the Digital Alberta Awards, there are still two days left to submit your nominations for the Most Inspirational Digital Leader.
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Montreal's Pibster is a reverse auction platform that wants users to sell anything and everything through social media, starting with Twitter.
The premise is simple: a user sets a high price, and every time someone tweets that auction item, the price decreases by a fixed amount until someone clicks buy (assuming someone is interested before it hits the reserved minimum price).
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A forthcoming anti-spam law in Canada is going to have dramatic, global effects on how Canadian companies manage their e-communications. Yet many don't even know it exists.
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Toronto's FreshBooks has added a new way to file expenses through their web platform. The Canadian tech company now allows users to upload expense receipts of any file format and attach them to invoices.
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