Week That Was – 2010-01-15

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Dave Forde
Published: January 18, 2010Posted in: Week in ReviewTags: , , , , , , ,
Week That Was

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There was a lot of movement on the internet across Canada last week, a few deals here and there and quite a bit of hiring as companies get ready to a recovery.  Here are some of the industry news and stories that we covered about on Profectio & PR In Canada in this edition of The Week That Was.

Headlines From Across Profectio & PR In Canada

Score Media App For BlackBerry Smartphones Has Been Downloaded 1 Million Times
Rogers On Demand, 1 Month and 1.8 Million Page Views
Queen’s School of Business Opens Up 2010 Tricolour Venture Fund, Up To $150K In Funding For Startups
Chalk Launches Chalk Pushcast Software For The BlackBerry Enterprise Solution
Facebook Launches “Reply By E-Mail,” Beat The Corporate Firewall
Rogers and Research In Motion (RIM) Plan Outage Next Week
Is Google The Startup Killer?
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade Trade Mission For 2010 – 2010
Is Social Media Blowing Up Your Ego?
Robert Half Technology: Canadian IT Departments Are Understaffed
One Year Anniversary For Carol Bartz, CEO Of Yahoo, What Rating Would You Give Her?
Research In Motion Expands Into Eastern Canada, Adds More Jobs
CommunityLend Opens The Door To Peer To Peer Lending In Canada
Alek Krstajic, CEO of Public Mobile, WIND Mobile Should Not Have Been Allowed To Launch

Deal Flow

Zoocasa Goes Shopping, Picks Up Two Media Properties
Craig Wireless Locks In $1.5 Million In Financing, Reports Q1 Results
Twitter Tool, HootSuite Secures $1.9 Million In Financing
m5 Makes Acquisition And Expands Into The US

Gadgets & Gear

Mountain Equipment Co-Op And Canadian Avalanche Centre Launch iPhone App

Campaign Corner

YTV Kicks Off Family Day Campaign

On The Move

Allard Johnson Launches New Digital Agency, Taps Cameron Wykes To Head It Up
Harjot Singh Promoted To Senior Vice President, Director of Planning At GREY Canada
GREY Canada Promotes Charles MacIntyre To Vice President, Global Business Director
Online Backup Service Data Deposit Box Adds Two New Board Of Directors
Cathy Fernandes As Vice-President, Sales And Marketing At BV! Media
Lezlie Grossman Tapped as New General Manger To Head Up Organic’s Toronto Operations
Bell Aliant Appoints Dan McKeen As Senior Vice President, Customer Solutions

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Founder of Profectio of business sites which includes Profectio, PR In Canada and Clean Tech Corner. He is also Founder of Toronto Tech Week. Follow Dave on Twitter or Facebook