Fongo offers to buy Wind Mobile, plans to enter wireless market

Editor's note: Story updated at 12:55 PM ET A Waterloo, Ont.-based voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) firm is offering to buy Wind Mobile for $1, it announced this morning. But whether the deal goes

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 27th, 2013 Brian Jackson

Toronto social marketing firms merge after ‘divine intervention’

Two Toronto-based social software startups are merging after Influitive Corp. announced its acquisition of Engagio yesterday, but the teams have already been working together for nearly two weeks, according to the founders.Influitive offers

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: February 6th, 2013 Brian Jackson

3 unanswered questions about the future of BlackBerry

Save for a couple of apps and celebrity appointments to company executive positions, the company formerly known as Research In Motion delivered pretty much exactly what we expected today. BlackBerry 10 is ready

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 30th, 2013 Brian Jackson

TeamBuy and Dealfind set to merge: report

Two Toronto-based group buying Web sites – TeamBuy.ca and Dealfind -  are set to merge, reports the blog of the Canadian Deals Association. The unconfirmed merger marks the consolidation in the group buying

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 3rd, 2013 Brian Jackson

NexJ acquires Broadstreet Data for $8.2 million

Toronto-based cloud software provider NexJ Systems Inc. has acquired Broadstreet Data Solutions Inc. for $8.2 million, it announced today.NexJ has been highlighted in the past year for its rapid revenue growth, topping the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 2nd, 2012 Brian Jackson

Ottawa’s jBilling snapped up by AppDirect

Cloud app store company AppDirect has acquired jBilling, an open source billing firm based in Ottawa. br>Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Related Story | FreshBooks launches its first iPhone appFounded

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 16th, 2012 Christine Wong

Rypple relaunched by Salesforce as Work.com

Rypple, the Toronto-based cloud human resources management software acquired by Salesforce.com in December 2011, has been relaunched today as Work.com. Announced from Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference underway in San Francisco, Rypple's technology is

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 19th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Wave Accounting acquires personal finance tools firm

Toronto-based personal investment tracking tools firm Vuru Inc. has been acquired by free online service Wave Accounting.In an acquisition deal in which the terms were not announced, Wave Accounting says that Vuru co-founders

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 21st, 2012 Brian Jackson

Vancouver’s Sitemasher team plays key role in newly unveiled Salesforce Communities

San Francisco-based Salesforce.com is taking its business social software Chatter and is allowing customers to create externally-focused networks in a new product called Salesforce Communities, the firm announced yesterday.Salesforce Communities will allow businesses

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 15th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Montreal’s Parta to acquire Toronto firm MThrty

Montreal's Parta Dialogue is expanding its global social media empire by making an offer to acquire M Thirty Communications Inc. of Toronto.The proposed deal would see TSX Venture listed Partabuy MThirty for aprice

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 13th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

20-20 Technologies acquired by Vector Capital for $77 million

Laval, Que.-based 20-20 Technologies Inc. announced yesterday it has been acquired by private technology sector investors Vector Capital Corp.The Quebec firm is a developer of design software used in the interior design and

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Rebellion Media acquires Jingu Apps

Rebellion Media of Waterloo, Ont. has purchased Toronto-based Jingu Apps Inc. in an all-Canadian acquisition deal.No financial terms were disclosed. Rebellion Media's integrated digital media platform, TRACE, powersWebsites and mobile applications in the

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Facebook acquires talent from Vancouver’s Acrylic Software

The founder of Vancouver startup Acrylic Software “likes” Facebook Inc. so much that he's leaving Canada to work for the social media giant at its headquarters in San Francisco.In a blog posting, Dustin

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 23rd, 2012 ITBusiness Staff

Freelancer.ca launches with acquisition of ScriptLance

Toronto-based freelancer online marketplace Scriptlance has been acquired by Freelancer.com, the firms announced today.Scriptlance is the fifth-largest freelance marketplace in the world with more than 360,000 users, according to the site. Its members

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 9th, 2012 Brian Jackson