Kibooco is a Vancouver digital media start-up developing an interactive platform for children to design and create their own books. As a start-up, the team behind the Kibooco vision had to develop a strategy to finance their project, and looked… Read more »
Tax Credits a Huge Draw for Game Studios to [Some Parts of] Canada
UK company Frontier Developments Ltd announced August 7 its plan to open a new game development studio in Halifax. The announcement rewards Nova Scotia’s “Your Studio Belongs Here” campaign, an initiative to entice game studios into relocating or expanding into… Read more »
2012- Canada’s Digital Future in Focus
ComScore, the go-to internet marketing research company, recently released an annual report on Canada’s digital trends, highlighting the influence of digital media in Canada’s marketplace. “Technological innovations in digital device hardware and software have enabled a rapid increase in consumers’… Read more »
A Major Player: Canada’s Video Game Sector
We’ve got our own tech hubs in Canada. Last year, Canada’s video game industry employed almost 16,000 people contributing $1.7 billion to economic activity, with an expected growth of 17% over the next two years according to the Entertainment Software… Read more »
Software Development and SR&ED
Software development is a key industry when it comes to R&D in Canada – in 2008 there were over 55,000 computer systems design and related companies operating in Canada, and that number continues to grow. Between smartphone apps and cloud… Read more »