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by Andrea Wahbe
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Last month, Wilf Dinnick, the founding editor and CEO of Canadian startup OpenFile received an award as J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year.
"The jury applauds his courage to put his own reputation on the line to create new and innovative approaches to engaging citizens with local, public service journalism in an...
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on Fri, February 10, 2012 8:36 AM
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Yesterday LinkedIn Corporation reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.
The world's largest professional network on the Internet now has with more than 150 million members and continues to grow at a rapid clip.
Last month LinkedIn announced that it has reached...
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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 Dan Verhaeghe
on Fri, February 3, 2012 11:07 AM
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Is Facebook worth $100 billion? I doubt it.
Facebook generated over $3.1 billion dollars in advertising revenue in 2011 from their display ads and 80% of additional revenue from Farmville creator Zynga (although they try to say it's 12% of overall revenue). But they write in their SEC filing:
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Thu, February 2, 2012 2:01 PM
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Ever wondered who the MVP of your Twitterverse was? Now you can find out.
A new app called MFV, an acronym for Most Valuable Follower, attempts to extract from your hundreds or thousands of Twitter followers just that person. Even though it's only a couple of days old, the algorithm has...
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by Knowlton Thomas
on Wed, February 1, 2012 4:00 PM
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So Facebook has filed for its IPO, tons of people are going to get crazy rich, blah blah blah. But not everything is sugar and spice on the Facebook front: it needs to fix its mobile problem, and fast.
Most companies have a mobile problem: not getting enough active users. This...
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on Wed, February 1, 2012 3:31 PM
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Now that the world's largest social network has finally filed for an initial public offering, the dust can settle and the media frenzy can die down. Right?
Hardly. From now until May, when Facebook is expected to actually debut on the market, count on everyone and their dog to be talking...
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