Paul Nicholls

CEDROM-Sni has gained the support of financial partners to market all of its XML-based software through its subsidiary IXIA. The Fonds d’Investissement Desjardins of Montréal, Société Innovatech du Grand Montréal and CEDROM-SNi have collectively invested $1.4 million in spurring the growth of IXIA, a Montreal-based producer of software that manages and indexes XML documents. Marketing […]

International Properties Group has announced the formation of a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary with an extensive e-commerce platform. The Delaware Corp. has been established to extend the reach of IPG’s wealth management services throughout the U.S. IPG’s “Virtual Apartment Building” concept enables clients to create geographically-diverse portfolios of well-selected, high-grade investment properties in high growth and […]

Manulife Financial Group Benefits has launched a new site to serve its plan members across Canada. Manulife will provide plan members with online access to their health and dental benefit and claims information. Manulife said it spent more than a year developing its Plan Member Secure Site. “Our new Plan Member Secure Site supplements the […]

Cyberplex Inc. has announced the launch of the new Ford of Canada site as well as the Ford Focus site. The new sites will serve to highlight the companys new 2000 model hatchbacks, sedans and wagons. CYBERPLEX was chosen from a list of several companies and is now Interactive Agency of Record for all Ford […]

Demand Ventures (VSE: DVD) has now unveiled a preview of their online knowledge auction, www.knexa.com. “Knexa.com will provide a new and powerful way for authors of all descriptions to market their knowledge,” said Demand president and Knexa.com originator David Brett. “From research reports to accounts of personal experience, Knexa.com authors will keep the lion’s share […]

eDispatch.com Wireless Data made an agreement with Southern LINC, a wholly owned wireless communications subsidiary of Southern Co., the largest producer of electricity in the United States. The deal is designed to provide access to eDispatch.com’s Wireless Internet Dispatch System. Southern LINC plans to offer eDispatch service to its more than 100,000 subscriber base — […]

Bid.Com International has appointed two new executives to lead the company in its planned expansion to Europe and Asia. Hamish Sutherland was named Managing Director, Asia-Pacific; and Aidan Rowsome was named Managing Director, Europe. Sutherland joins Bid.Com from the Australian Trade Commission where he was responsible for the development of channel and market strategies for […]

Demand Ventures has announced that it will unveil its Knowledge Exchange Auction Knexa.com on September 1. The new site will be the world’s first to combine online auctions with the globally emerging demand for electronic knowledge exchange. “The world is racing to the Internet in a quest for free knowledge, but is instead finding itself […]

InfoSpace.com has announced a strategic partnership with AOL Canada to provide people and business directories and a geographic mapping service. AOL Canada members will now be able to search for an individual, either by name, address or telephone number, as well as have access to millions of organizations, businesses and professionals in Canada and around […]

Rogers Media and Micromedia, a division of IHS Canada, jointly launched Rogers’ Electric Library Canada via Micromedia’s Information Resource Centre. Designed for ease-of-use by end-users and simple introduction to enterprise-wide corporate and organizational intranets, the Information Resource Centre assembles research tools for Canadian information sources. A collection of North American and international sources is offered, […]

E-commerce and Web hosting solution provider NetNation Communications Wednesday announced that the company was selected as an official registrar of Internet domain names by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Vancouver-based NetNation will commence operations as an official registrar after the initial testbed phase of the Shared Registry System, which is expected […]

PeopleSoft Tuesday unveiled PeopleSoft eMarketplace, a new application for business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce. Integrated with the PeopleSoft e-business backbone, PeopleSoft eMarketplace provides a multi-channel solution including sales, customer self-service, product marketing, order fulfillment, and closed-loop analytics. “Today’s announcement of PeopleSoft eMarketplace brings enterprise power to Internet commerce by providing an end-to-end solution that will integrate […]