Examiner.com to launch in five Canadian cities
Examiner.com has announced their plans to launch their services targeting five new Canadian cities.
They would now provide localized content catering to these new cities: Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.
Nationalized content would also be offered to Canadian visitors who are not from these cities.
Examiner already has [...]
Go Google campaign set to go international
Google has announced that they are all set to expand their Go Google marketing campaign to international markets.
The company is already serving more than 2 million businesses and 20 million users globally with their paid offerings.
Google had first launched this campaign in the US market earlier [...]
Viadeo acquires Unyk
Viadeo is one of the many web based social networks which caters to professionals.
They have just acquired Canada based Unyk. The combined entity is now the second largest player in this segment after LinkedIn.
The company said that they now have around 25 million users. LinkedIn has around 45 million.
The two [...]
Google Street View now in Canada
Google has expanded their Street View services to some parts of Canada.
The company said in a blog posting:
Now, whether from your chesterfield or smart phone, you can explore 360-degree street-level photographs of Canadian hotspots ranging from Parliament Hill and the CN Tower to Old Quebec City and Halifax’s [...]
MySpace Twitter Sync comes to more countries
I got the mail earlier today about the Twitter connectivity coming to my MySpace page.
I am not a heavy user of MySpace but I did check the feature out and it worked well.
MySpace has expanded the program to cover users in several new countries.
These include: UK, [...]
Microsoft can sell Word in the US market after all
Microsoft has finally won an approval from the courts to continue selling their Microsoft Word application in the US market.
This ruling has been given by the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit.
Microsoft has been given this approval as they continue to appeal another [...]
Facebook to offer more privacy features in the future
Web’s most popular social network Facebook has announced that they would now give their users more control over the information that is shared with third party applications.
This was mostly in response to the demands made by Canadian privacy bodies.
As of now, users do not [...]
Microsoft knew about i4i technologies before Word 11 was launched
Microsoft recently lost a lawsuit filed by Canadian company i4i which has now made things difficult for them.
Microsoft has been told to stop the sales of Microsoft Word application in the US market within the next 60 days.
The company is going to appeal the ruling [...]
Bump Technologies is in news for their BumpTop 3 dimensional user interface that is currently available on the Windows platform.
The Toronto, Ontario, Canada had been working on this product for many years now. They vowed the online audience by showcasing a demo of their product sometime back.
BumpTop is an interesting desktop shell which provides [...]
DISNEY acquires assets from Canadian company Kaboose
US based media giant Disney has announced their decision to acquire some of the assets of Canadian company Kaboose.
Disney gets the ownership of several web properties through this deal.
These include: Kaboose.com, Babyzone.com, AmazingMoms.com, Funschool.com, Zeeks.com and ParentZone.com.
The company did not reveal whether they plan to retain the company [...]
