Montreal Tech Watch

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Waveguide in collaboration with Samsung is coming in Montreal next week for a coding camp focused on mobile and TV platform tech. The event is free (with free breakfast and lunch), and covers everything you need to know about mobile development on the latest smartphones: Android, NFC, HTML5 plus also Samsung technologies such as bada [...]

Quick but great news of the day: Venturebeat reports Playerize has closed its series A, getting $1m from Real Ventures, Rho Ventures, as well as invidual investors such as Mike Edwards of Initio Group, David Chamandy of Machkor, Martin-Luc Archambault of Bolidea, Dan Robichaud, and Jason Bailey. It’s a diverse group of investors, with investors [...]

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Do you know why Google + will not beat Facebook? Because it has a huge user base, but no “wow factor” (at least not for me). Remember Google Buzz? No?… Neither do I… Personally I won’t switch to Google + just because of its social circles (FB has it too now). I’m a lazy user and [...]

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Conor Clarke, one of Wavo.me’s cofounders, took a stab today at the iTunes player, and most of the iTunes clones for its bland design. That was a very ballsy comment, in a world where most designers have granted God status to Apple and its design sense. In lieu of the boring grey and “swedish-style” design, [...]

Playerize, with an all-star team from Vancouver, jumps on the social gaming opportunity, and is providing an ambitious set of tools to game publishers, to acquire new players, and also increase engagement. Playerize was introduced today by one of their new investors (Rho Ventures) as opportunistic entrepreneurs. With the explosion of social gaming, mainly on [...]

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