LAS VEGAS – Rogers’ real time web service Thoora marked its official launch at the BlogWorld Expo.
It’s service had previously been in private beta since it was unveiled at TechCrunch50 last month, and by Cartt.ca.
The free service uses filtering, clustering and ranking technology to find the stories generating the biggest reaction within the blogosphere, Twitter and more than 4,500 traditional media sources. Thoora’s news aggregation and story ranking algorithm is completely automated and relies relying on implicit actions rather than human curation to determine the stories attracting the most buzz.
"We have been excited to see such an…
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THIS YEAR’S CTAM Summit is less than a week away – and Cartt.ca will be there.
Looking to stand out in the shifting media and entertainment consumption revolution? Executives from Univision and Quiznos will share tips on how marketers can reach multiple consumer segments during a presentation at the general session of this year’s CTAM Summit.
In related news, Wednesday October 21 is the final deadline to register for CTAM Canada’s annual Summit dinner which will be held at The Cable Center in Denver on October 26, 2009.
The Cable Center chronicles the story of where cable has been, and provides the…
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TORONTO – Is Canada’s broadband infrastructure lagging or leading that of other countries?
According to a recent report by Canadian telecom consultant Mark Goldberg and Giganomics’ Suzanne Blackwell, that question can be difficult to answer. International comparative statistics have been conflicted on Canada’s broadband performance, in large part due to methodological errors in some of the research that in turn biased the resulting rankings.
The authors are particularly critical of the OECD rankings which they describes as “highly dependent on per country sampling data used”, while its penetration metrics are biased in favour of countries with smaller household sizes. Also, the OECD…
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TORONTO – The new board of the new Canadian Media Fund launching in April is new and much smaller – with a much more prominent voice from the companies which must funnel a piece of their revenue into it – but how, exactly, will the administration of this $300 million money pot change as compared to the old CTF?
The BDUs (Rogers, Shaw, Bell, et al), which have to contribute 5% of their revenues to this fund to create Canadian content challenged the way it was run almost three years ago and said they should have more…
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WHILE THE TV, CABLE and telecom industries are bogged down once again in regulatory minutiae, Mike Lee has many other things on his plate.
The chief strategy officer at Rogers Communications, both the biggest wireless and cable company in Canada, is not thinking much about wireless phones or cable these days. Instead, he’s up to his neck in the real time web as the CEO of Rogers-funded start-up Thoora.
“I’m spending 100% of my time on new growth,” said Lee in an interview with Cartt.ca. “I’m actually not that tied into cable or wireless.”
Being Canadian regulated industries, the growth yet…
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TORONTO – New wireless entrant DAVE Wireless has signed a multi-year roaming agreement with Rogers Wireless to provide its future customers with nationwide wireless voice and data services.
"As part of our promise to deliver value, simplicity and flexibility to our customers, we needed a high-quality partner to provide our customers voice and data roaming services when they travel outside our coverage areas”, said president Dave Dobbin in the announcement. “That is why, when securing a national roaming partner, we chose Rogers – their network is compatible with our 3G network and will allow us to offer the attractive services…
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TORONTO – The first-ever collaborative TV production between Canada and China will debut on OMNI Television this Saturday.
Called Once Upon a Time in Toronto, the 20-part Mandarin-language drama series follows the intertwining lives of a diverse group of people from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds as they are forced to deal with their emotions, and each other, following a tragic car accident.
In consideration of the series’ cross-cultural appeal, all Mandarin language dialogue is subtitled in Chinese and English.
The Rogers-owned, over-the-air multilingual/multicultural television system is available in 16.5 million households in Victoria and Vancouver, BC; Calgary and Edmonton, AB…
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TORONTO – Rogers Media will share content with the newly launched bilingual web destination MSN.ca.
The Microsoft owned and operated portal will feature content from Rogers’ publications Flare, Teen Flare, Maclean’s, Today’s Parent, Canadian Business, Hello Canada and LouLou.
"We are pleased to be partnering with one of Canada’s most prominent online destinations," said Claude Galipeau, Rogers’ SVP of digital media, in the announcement. "Our premium content is a natural addition to this dynamic portal and will serve new audiences with our popular brands."
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OTTAWA – There could be two more sports network hitting the airwaves in Canada.
The CRTC has received applications from Rogers Broadcasting and Quebecor-owned TVA Group for national, category two services tentatively entitled Rogers’ Mainstream Sports Specialty Service, and TVA Sports.
In an application dated September 16, 2009, Rogers said that its new network will air “programming dedicated to all aspects of sports with an emphasis on mainstream Canadian professional sports”.
“Rogers Broadcasting Ltd. will leverage our expertise in sports programming and our existing infrastructure to establish a premium service offering blue chip mainstream sports events with widespread viewer, subscriber and…
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TORONTO – Having another company selling the iPhone makes a great headline for Bell Canada, but according to Bell Mobility president Wade Oosterman, there are plenty more benefits to switching on the company’s new, shared, HSPA wireless network.
Bell announced earlier this week its next generation wireless network will be ready next month, earlier than planned and while most media have focused on the overhyped handheld, upgrading the net will bring more to Bell than the Apple mobile.
“There are four big benefits that accrue to us and our subscribers,” Oosterman told Cartt.ca. “The network is vastly larger than…
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