Deborah Jessop

[Winnipeg, CANDA] – CanWest, owners of Canada’s Global Television, will acquire 100 percent of the principal metropolitan operations of the Hollinger newspaper chain in Canada, with all of its Canadian Internet properties, its magazine group, most of the community publishing operations and a 50 percent interest in the National Post. This is the largest transaction […]

[Waterloo, CANADA]- b2bScene, a division of Open Text Corp. partnered with edeal Services Corp., a global online auction technology provider, to offer business-to-business auctions through edeal’s AuctionEnabler application. b2bScene will support these personalized auctions within its public industry communities and hosted extranets. b2bScene’s online collaborative commerce services include hosted communities such as intranets, extranets and […]

[Calgary, CANADA] – Cell-Loc’s TimesThree partnered with AirFlash Inc., an application services provider (ASP) of wireless location-relevant content, community and commerce infrastructure. TimesThree will use Cell-Loc’s patented technology to provide AirFlash with the real-time location of wireless devices, allowing AirFlash to offer portals and carriers to deliver location-relevant wireless services to mobile users. AirFlash provides […]

[Burnaby, CANADA] TELUS signed with Blockbuster Inc. and Enron Broadband Services to conduct a trial service of streamed real-time video in early 2001. The service will deliver feature-length movies from Blockbuster to the televisions of 5,000 TELUS high-speed Internet customers in British Columbia, using TELUS’ ADSL network and a DSL-enabled set top box. TELUS plans […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Mosaic Group Inc., an outsourced marketing services agency, has a multi-year agreement with 411HomeNet, a new residential real estate service. 411HomeNet offers potential homebuyers a real estate service with Buyer Guide real estate professionals placed locally across North America, and a growing database of multimedia home profiles online. The online site lets homebuyers […]

[Toronto, CANADA] – Andersen Consulting and Epylon Corp., a provider of hosted eBusiness solutions for education and government institutions, signed a global alliance to deliver eProcurement solutions tailored to the public sector. AC Ventures, the venture capital unit of Andersen Consulting, has purchased a minority stake in Epylon. Epylon has developed a set of public […]

[Calgary, CANADA] – Calgary-based NextClick: The Personalization Agency and its network of personalization partners will create an online customer loyalty program for C Me Run Corp. customers. Massachusetts-based C Me Run enables consumers to access brand-name software programs and store files via a secure Web browser through their Internet service provider (ISP) or telecommunications company, […]

[Toronto, CANADA] 724 Solutions and the Bank of Montreal‘s Harris Bank, a fully-owned U.S. subsidiary, let Chicago-based retail customers conduct banking and investment services using Internet-enabled mobile phones. According to the companies involved, this makes Chicago-based Harris Bank the first U.S. bank to roll out wireless banking and investment services to its entire customer base. […]

[Toronto, CANADA] Carspecs.com, a global supplier of online automotive data will provide data and a query tool for AUTONET.CA, a part of Canada’s national online resource, CANOE.CA. Using carspecs.com data, AUTONET.CA’s showroom will allow new car customers to research specifications and pricing on all new cars sold in Canada and they’ll use AUTONET.CA’s dealer affiliations […]

[Toronto, CANADA] – The Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) entered a multi-year licensing agreement to provide Bloomberg LP with a direct electronic feed of SEDAR data and documents. This data incorporates all public documents filed with Canadian securities regulators by public companies and mutual funds. Adopting SEDAR information is a feature of Bloomberg’s commitment to […]

[Toronto, CANADA]- Bell Canada, Canada’s largest communications company, has signed a multi-year contract with Next Level Communications, Inc., which offers ATM/IP optical interactive DSL broadband systems. Next Level will provide its VDSL NLevel3 Unified Access Platform for broadband services. Bell Canada currently offers VDSL broadband services in a technology trial to Palace Pier, a large […]

[Richmond Hill, CANADA] – SKG Interactive Inc.’s NorstarMall.ca Inc. launched 5 co-branded shopping destinations for GlobalTV.com‘s regional sites: Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg and Atlantic Canada. With this strategic partnership, NorstarMall.ca is the exclusive e-commerce content provider for GlobalTV.com. GlobalTV.com and NorstarMall.ca will combine efforts in cross-promotional activities to market the new online shopping destinations. These […]