Microsoft Corp. and Nokia were already close, but now they're going through with the ceremony and entering a full-fledged union. Microsoft will acquire the Devices & Services division of Finnish smartphone maker Nokia
It looks like most small business owners have a DIY attitude when it comes to brand building. A new American Express Small Business Services survey says 36 per cent of business owners are
Published on: July 24th, 2013
Cheryl Sylvester
@csylvester
Because of rising business expenses and taxes, it's more important now than ever to cut costs in any way possible. One sector of your business you may not have considered as an area
Mobilicity has launched its 4G service by offering two new data plan options. The Toronto-based wireless carrier, which operates as an upstartalternative to Rogers, Telus and Bell, said in a news release that
It was a long weekend for California-based cloud video games firm OnLive, and not the good kind. On Friday, an e-mail went out to all the employees at the firm were told they'd
Public Mobile, one of the new entrants to the Canadian cell phone carrier space, announced today an unlimited music download service available to its customers using Android smartphones.Dubbed Siren, the Toronto-based firm is
TekSavvy Solutions Inc. has launched new DSL service targeting SMBs now that Canada's telecom watchdog has ruled that it and other small ISPs can directly compete with big carriers in the high-speed Internet
Published on: July 4th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
Vancouver-based Peer 1 Network Enterprises Inc. is acquiring UK-based managed hosting provider NetBenefit Limited in a deal worth $38.5 million, the firm announced today.Peer 1 is buying all outstanding shares of the London
Published on: June 6th, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
You've all seen --and envied--that viral video that gets millions of views seemingly overnight, the one everyone talks about for days. But does getting millions of views on YouTube translate into getting millions
Published on: April 20th, 2012
Jennifer Lonoff Schiff
@itbusinessca
Longer battery life: Every laptop user wants it, but few know how to get it without buying a new machine. Though laptop manufacturers have made great strides over the past few years in
Published on: April 3rd, 2012
Marco Chiappetta
@itbusinessca
The Business Software Alliance has found a newly imagined detriment of Canada’s supposedly sub-par intellectual property laws – make sure you’re sitting down for this shocker – it’s slowing down the advancement of
A week after returning to profitability, Acer is making Canada a big part of its new focus on the SMB market, including hiring in that unit here and the relocation of an overseas
Published on: February 22nd, 2012
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
More and more companies have turned to the Web to transact business. And, of course, if you are going to sell on the Web, the right shopping cart can mean the difference between
Published on: January 23rd, 2012
Vangie Beal
@itbusinessca
Doug Moffat was seeking a way to help the visually impaired and physically disabled to browse the Web when he started down the path that led to his startup, True Voice Technologies Inc.Moffat
