TWG navigates startup waters while throwing others a line

In the heart of downtown Toronto and just blocks away from Chinatown lay TWG (The Working Group) a development house that creates Web and mobile products for clients and the community at large.

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 30th, 2013 Eric Floresca

Roamly offers businesses lower roaming charges

Canadian businesses will soon have another option for reducing roaming charges occurred during international travel. Mississauga, Ont.-based Gibraltar Solutions is bringing Roamly Mobile Solutions Inc.’s service to the enterprise market. Roamly is a

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: May 13th, 2013 Paolo Del Nibletto

Dandy: it takes a community to raise an app

Dandy takes a community approach to developing apps and paying those developers. It wants to solve the problem of the disconnect between the amount of revenue being generated by app stores and the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: March 22nd, 2013 Brian Jackson

Charity App Challenge launches in Calgary

A Charity App Challenge next week will see teams compete to build mobile solutions for this year's Calgary Herald Christmas Fund Charities.A joint initiative with the Calgary Herald, Digital Alberta and Place2Give.com, Calgary's

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 29th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Xtreme Labs launches app for Montreal retailer

Montreal-based premium menswear retailer Frank & Oak has expanded its online retail presence with a new iPhone app, developed in conjunction with Toronto's Xtreme Labs.p>The new app, now available for download, comes less

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 29th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Intuit continues mobile march with ProFile Connect app

Late last year, financial software developer Intuit released a mobile app version of QuickBooks Online its cloud-based bookkeeping software for SMBs. Now it's continuing its app development trend by releasing a mobile version

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: January 24th, 2013 Jeff Jedras

Appclick Canada opens doors to new cloud apps store

A new app store offering Canadian small to mid-sized businesses more than 1,300 cloud-based apps has just come online, according to its creator.San Matero, Calif.-based SaaS Markets has launched Appclick Canada today. It’s

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: November 6th, 2012 Brian Jackson

Privacy commissioners issue guidelines for mobile apps

The privacy commissioners for Canada, Alberta and British Columbia jointly issued a set of guidelines today to help mobile developers bake privacy protection into their apps. The guidelines were released on the closing

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 25th, 2012 Christine Wong

Canada’s mobile app sector generates $775M in revenues, employs 51,000

Revenue generated annually by Canada's mobile app industry will more than double by 2016 to reach $2.2 billion per year, a new report forecasts. The sector now generates about $775 million in revenue

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 18th, 2012 Christine Wong

Is Ballmer bungling Microsoft’s Windows 8 app strategy?

The naysayers are coming out of the woodwork to cast doubt on Steve Ballmer's Windows 8 app strategy. Windows 8 gets its official debut later this month but with just weeksto go, critics

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: October 1st, 2012 Christine Wong

Ooomf gets $500,000 vote of confidence for app discovery platform

It's been a big day for Ooomf.The Montreal startup launched a public beta of its mobile app discoveryplatform on Wednesday, the same day it announced $500,000 in seedfunding from Real Ventures and BDC

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 5th, 2012 Christine Wong

Startup TO: Isn’t it time you got a cut of the deal?

Every click, scroll and eyeball is worth something. Heck, we even pay people to like us. Consumers like us have become an unassuming middleman within the ads and conversions. But what about our cut

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 14th, 2012 Ashley Huffman

RIM celebrates 3 billion downloads on App World

After months of gloomy news to report, Research In Motion finally has something to brag about: its app store, BlackBerry App World, just passed 3 billion app downloads. It took BlackBerry users just over three

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

Massive Damage affected by Apple’s app-crashing blunder

A Toronto-based mobile game developer had to scramble its support team and work overtime to protect a hard-earned 4.5 star rating in the App Store after an Apple Inc.-caused glitch corrupted an update

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: July 6th, 2012 Brian Jackson and Daniel Ionescu