Deborah Jessop

[Toronto, CANADA] LoopNet launched its Canadian site for Canadian Commercial Real Estate (CRE). It provides brokers, institutions, tenants, landlords, real estate boards and organizations with an online marketplace to help to conduct transactions more efficiently. LoopNet’s services are used by five Canadian CRE corporations: C.B. Richard Ellis, Avison Young, J.J. Barnicke, Colliers International and Royal […]

[Ottawa, CANADA] The Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) and Industry Canada launched the Talent Gallery, an online recruitment tool for the cultural sector. Developed in partnership with Industry Canada’s SkillNet.ca, the site offers work search assistance to students, graduates and professionals in the cultural sector, and links Canadian employers to skilled job seekers. “This collaboration […]

[Toronto, CANADA]- Siebel Systems Inc., a supplier of e-business application software, will acquire Janna Systems Inc., a provider of e-business solutions for the financial services industry in a share exchange transaction. Siebel Systems will integrate Janna’s technology into the Siebel eBusiness Applications, enhancing its multi-channel e-business solutions for financial services institutions in the retail banking […]

[Toronto, CANADA] – Royal Bank of Canada has chosen Cyberplex Inc., a North American Internet professional services company as vendor-of-choice, to enhance the customer experience on the Royal Bank site. Royal Bank has engaged Cyberplex’s Business Architecture Division to begin phase one of a multi-tiered development strategy with anticipated Web development to begin this fall. […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Bank of Montreal and NewSys Solutions Inc., an Ottawa-based information and communications company, will launch Internet business centers for small and mid-sized companies across Canada. Bank of Montreal is to pay set up fees and licensing fees to NewSys on terms to be finalized. As a feature of the agreement, NewSys will grant […]

[Toronto, CANADA] MSN Carpoint online automotive service officially launched Carpoint Canada bringing the online car-buying service in the U.S. to Canadian consumers. As part of the MSN.CA network, Carpoint.CA will serve as the new auto channel providing Canadian consumers with car-buying services, news and reviews, and safety information, tailored to the needs and interests of […]

[Calgary, CANADA]- The New Era Group of Companies will distribute Big Picture Technologies Inc.‘s line of e-commerce enabled products in South East Asia. The New Era Group of Companies comprises four distribution units in Singapore with additional sales and distribution units in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. New Era estimates that it has 80 percent […]

[Toronto, CANADA] – Ciber, Inc. which helps businesses to be agile, scalable and connected, will use Changepoint’s professional services automation (PSA) solution to integrate and automate its business processes for delivering Internet projects. “Changepoint’s PSA solution will support our growing business model of providing Internet, strategy, wireless, business intelligence, and network and security solutions to […]

[Waterloo, CANADA]- b2bScene, a division of Open Text Corp. has partnered with PsiGate to provide payment solutions for its online business-to-business services. b2bScene has integrated PSiGate’s services for real-time payment collection and financial transaction processing within its business-to-business portal site and hosted application services. PSiGate handles the processing of payments from purchase to deposit. Its […]

[Toronto, CANADA] – eHarlequin.com has hired Organic, Inc.‘s Canadian office to create and execute a plan to bring the eHarlequin.com site home to Canada. Toronto, Ontario-based eHarlequin.com will migrate the site’s production environment and all its data and content from San Francisco to Toronto this autumn. Organic will help eHarlequin.com to determine what internal skills […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Nortel Networks laid claim to first-mover advantage in Asia’s application service provider (ASP) infrastructure market, with a US $26 million contract to be chief supplier and prime solutions integrator for eASPNet, Taiwan’s new ASP and Internet Data Center (IDC). Recently formed by a consortium of Taiwanese and Asian companies, eASPNet plans to offer […]

[Calgary, CANADA] TELUS Mobility and Audiovox Communications Corp. launched the Audiovox Tri-mode Digital CDMA phone with access to Web-based information. The Audiovox CDM-9000 will be teamed with TELUS Mobility’s CDMA digital network and i-Web Microbrowser service, enabling customers to wirelessly access Internet content and services. The Audiovox CDM-9000 can also be used as a modem […]