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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Fri, February 10, 2012 11:16 AM
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Neil Sweeney was named Canada's Top Digital Media Executive in 2011 at the Digi Awards in December for pioneering JUICE Mobile, a mobile advertising and analytics company with dozens of Canadian clients. JUICE offers access to over 1B monthly mobile impressions from 1,500 various Canadian and USA publishers.
After winning the...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Wed, February 8, 2012 2:14 PM
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You may have seen some impressive stories come out of Canada's Interactive Digital Media Industry as of late on Techvibes as the achievements of industry leaders behind it all have certainly not gone unnoticed.
The creative force behind Interactive Ontario's X-Summit, GameON: Finance, INPlay, and the Interactive Exchange since co-founding the...
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by Rolando Fuentes
on Mon, February 6, 2012 9:01 AM
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The Great Gamification Debate held February 2nd at the VFS Cafe in Vancouver produced great insights on what is gamification, and how it can be used in product design. If you weren’t able to make it to the event, Ayogo, the host of the event, have already...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Tue, January 31, 2012 9:21 AM
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Chris Wright, the CEO of Games Analytics is 14 months deep into his new company focused on maximizing online game revenue. He gave away ten tips to the audience at Game On: Finance a couple weeks ago. He believes you can get a 20-30% uplift on monthly revenue on average...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Fri, January 20, 2012 12:15 PM
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The Canadian gaming sector has risen to become one of the strongest in the world and leaders like Albert Lai of Big Viking Games and Alex Sakiz of Gamerizon are examples of how multi-million dollar gaming dreams can become reality in Canada.
A lot of credit for the suddenly thriving Canadian...
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by Stephen Christensen
on Fri, January 20, 2012 6:03 AM
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Microsoft has big plans to become a major media player in 2012, a fact they discussed at this year’s CES technology trade-show. Some of the media partners mentioned are understandably for an American only audience, such as Comcast’s Xfinity TV, Wall Street Journal, AT&T’s U-Verse, and Fox News.
That being...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Thu, January 19, 2012 10:20 AM
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As someone who really got into mobile communications during the early days of the continued QR Code craze—where the lastest statistics report that 20 million Americans scanned a QR Code in the United States in October 2011, representing about 7.5% of the population, up from about 5% in June 2011—you can...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Thu, January 12, 2012 8:59 AM
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The slightly controversial penny-auction site Quibids has become the 83rd ranked site in Toronto and the 97th ranked site overall in Canada according to Alexa over the past three months.
Does winning items for mere pennies or a few dollars sound too good to be true? Some Canadians would call it...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, January 4, 2012 3:18 PM
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Playerize went from Vancouver to Montreal in late 2011 to join startup accelerator FounderFuel and now they're back in Vancouver with a $1.1 Million round of fresh financing.
The Series A round includes Real Ventures, Rho Ventures, Mike Edwards of Initio Group, David Chamandy of Machkor, Martin-Luc Archambault, Dan...
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