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by Dan Verhaeghe
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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.
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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 Techvibes Newsdesk
on Fri, February 3, 2012 1:49 PM
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Sony is expanding its Vancouver visual effects and digital animation studio, less than two years after setting up shop.
The company says it will double its space in Yaletown by March, leasing a second location of 16,000 square feet, just two blocks from its current offices. Sony says more...
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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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on Wed, January 25, 2012 4:00 PM
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Are you ready to live the island dream?
First announced back in May 2011, Vancouver-based startup Exploding Barrel Games has at long last launched Margaritaville Online, a free Facebook and iOS game. The social, cross-platform game is an "immersive, everyday escape" inspired by the lifestyle of Jimmy Buffett.
"The Margaritaville laid-back state...
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by Rob Lewis
on Mon, January 23, 2012 10:44 AM
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This week Business in Vancouver newspaper printed their annual Biggest Video Game Companies in B.C. list and the usual suspects are all there.
The Top 10 employers include Electronic Arts, Capcom Game Studio, United Front Games, THQ Canada (Relic), Radical Entertainment, Slant Six Games, Next Level Games, Big Park, Rockstar Vancouver,...
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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.
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