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Social Gamer Akoha Raises C$1.9 Million From Angels - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 29 Apr 2008 11:16 AM PST

Akoha, a developer of online and offline social games has raised C$1.9 (US$1.86) million from a long list of Canadian angel investors. The full list of investors, which includes the…

Video News Site Mediascrape Raises $3.16 Million - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 21 Apr 2008 12:37 PM PST

Mediascrape, a site that aggregates news video, has raised C$3.2 million (US$3.16 million) from unidentified investors. The Montreal-based company aggregates video from a variety of sources, including BBC and CBC,…

Newspaper Roundup: AP Members Grouse; McClatchy Offers Buyouts; Toronto Star Lays Off Internet Staff - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Apr 2008 04:45 PM PST

-- AP: Newspaper editors let loose a barrage of criticism for the new Associated Press rate structure after an appearance by AP President and CEO Tom Curley at the American…

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It’s Official: Live Current Media Bags Rights To IPL Portal For $50 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 17 Apr 2008 10:44 AM PST

From our India site ContentSutra: So here’s the official announcement regarding Canadian company Live Current Media’s deal with the Indian Premier league, for cricket, which we had told you about…

Canadian Firm Live Current Media Bags Indian Cricket League’s Online Rights For $50 Million - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 16 Apr 2008 01:50 PM PST

Live Current Media Inc (LCM), a Vancouver, Canada based company has bagged the portal rights of the Indian Premier League for 10 years for $50 million, we have confirmed from…

Earnings: JumpTV Revs Soar On Acquisition; Losses Grow - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Thu 27 Mar 2008 04:51 AM PST

Toronto-based IPTV/TV rebroadcaster JumpTV has reported Q4 revenue of $4.8 million, a major increase from the $748,000 it did in the year-ago period. The company’s $60 million acquisition of the…

Thomson, Reuters Shareholders Approve Merger - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 26 Mar 2008 07:42 AM PST

Shareholders have given Thomson’s (NYSE: TOC) acquisition of Reuters (NSDQ: RTRSY) the nod, Reuters reported. The Canadian financial media company says that nearly 99 percent of the shareholders in Toronto…

Ontario Public Ed Channel TVO Will Share Online Programming For Parents With Yahoo Canada - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 25 Mar 2008 11:09 AM PST

Canadian public education broadcaster TVO has struck a programming and production deal with Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Canada. Kind of a government-run Canadian PBS, TVO says this is the first time…

Canadian Social Net Nexopia Takes ‘Substantial’ Investment From Burda Digital - 1 Comment
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 04 Feb 2008 12:39 PM PST

Alberta, Canada-based social net Nexopia has raised an unspecified, but “substantial” investment from Burda Digital Ventures, the VC arm of German media firm Hubert Burda Media. The four-year old site…

WPP Makes Run At Canadian Digital Shop Nurun: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 21 Jan 2008 09:08 AM PST

WPP Group is upping the ante in its six-month-long pursuit of Montreal-based interactive marketing strategist Nurun, The Globe and Mail reports. After a number of twists and turns going back…

Newspaper Roundup: NYT/WSJ; Toronto Star; Media General; Belo - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 Jan 2008 04:16 PM PST

-- NYT and WSJ: Regular readers of the New York Times’ and Wall St. Journal’s websites probably couldn’t help noticing an Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) ad touting its Leopard operating system…

Rogers Accused Of Violating Net Neutrality After Testing ISNS - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Thu 13 Dec 2007 10:14 PM PST

Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications has come under fire for violating Internet neutrality principles after testing a new technology called Internet Subscriber Notification System (ISNS) that inserts messages…

DHX Media Buys Stake in Canadian Games Content Producer Tribal Nova - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 23 Nov 2007 12:28 PM PST

Some activity in the Canadian broadband gaming market: DHX Media, based in Halifax, which produces and distributes TV programming and interactive content, has bought a 16.77 percent stake in Tribal…

Yahoo-Rogers Change Deal From Access Fees To Rev Share - 1 Comment
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 02 Nov 2007 08:29 AM PST

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is spinning a shift in its access deal with Canada’s Rogers Communications as an expanded strategic relationship but UBS analyst Ben Schachter has the right perspective: it’s…

WPP Acquires Interactive Ad Shop Blast Radius; Agency To Become Part Of Wunderman Network - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 24 Oct 2007 12:51 PM PST

WPP Group has acquired digital ad shop Blast Radius for an undisclosed sum. The Vancouver-based interactive agency will be folded into WPP’s Wunderman marketing services network. Over the past few…

Toronto Star Ceases Publication Of E-Paper To Concentrate On Web And Mobile - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 12 Oct 2007 03:35 PM PST

A little more than a year after introducing its PDF edition Star PM, The Toronto Star is pulling the plug on the e-newspaper, E&P reports. The company says it ceased…

WPP Group Expected To Prevail In Latest Interactive Acquisition For Blast Radius: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Sun 30 Sep 2007 06:39 PM PST

Although interactive ad shop Blast Radius does about three-quarters of its business in the U.S., the independent agency is not very well known outside its native Canada. That could change…

JumpTV Buys Cycling.tv For $5 Million - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 09 Aug 2007 08:58 PM PST

JumpTV (AIM: JTV) (TSX: JTV), the Canada-headquartered online video aggregator, has made another small acquisition, with its usual propensity for complex cash+shares+performance based deals: it has bought London-based Cycling TV,…

Interview: Steve Wadsworth, President, WDIG; Lane Merrifield, CEO, Club Penguin - 2 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 01 Aug 2007 09:26 PM PST

All too often when a seller says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money, so it was almost a shock to to get the end of a call…

Online Advertising Firm Adzilla Gets $10 Million First Round Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 24 Jul 2007 02:22 PM PST

Adzilla, a Vancouver-based online ad startup, has raised $10 million in its first round of fuding, according to a regulatory filing, picked up by PEHub. Investors in the round include…

JumpTV Buys Online Video Sports Network XOS For $60.25 million - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 17 Jul 2007 04:32 PM PST

JumpTV, the Canadian online video/TV aggregator which recently raised $100 million in an AIM IPO, has bought a U.S. college sports broadband network for $60.25 million to expand beyond its…

Earnings: CanWest Q3 Profits Down 38.5 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 12 Jul 2007 12:36 PM PST

CanWest (NYSE: CWG) reported Q3 profits of $8 million, a 38.5 percent drop from last year’s $13 million. Meanwhile, the Canadian media company said revenues were up by 7 percent…

Canadian New Media Fund Receives $27.3 Million From The Government - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 11 Jun 2007 01:41 PM PST

Canadian New Media Fund, a digital media fund supported by the government, has received $27.3 million from the Heritage Ministry, it was announced at the annual Banff World Television Festival,…

Thomson-Reuters Confirm Deal, Creating Information Market Leader - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 15 May 2007 01:48 AM PST

Representatives of both Thomson (NYSE: TOC) and Reuters confirmed their partnership at a Tuesday morning conference in London, marking what Thomson CEO Richard Harrington said “is a milestone in the…

Thomson-Reuters: Deal Approved By Both Firms; Online Competition May Help Pass The Deal - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 14 May 2007 10:45 PM PST

Updated 2: The two companies have announced their official approval for the deal to go ahead, on the way to creating the world’s biggest financial news and data group. Updated:…