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XMG Studio Inc. is an award-winning developer and publisher of mobile games. Founded in late 2009, XMG has developed a track record for innovation excellence in mobile gaming including the release of critically acclaimed games downloadable on your iOS, Android, and Windows Phone device. Based in Toronto, XMG is one of the largest indie mobile game studios in Canada. Named as one of the top global mobile games developers to watch by popular media, XMG is focused on providing creative expression through gameplay for all fans of fun.
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The Globe and Mail , through its newspaper, magazine, online and mobile platforms, is Canada’s foremost news media company. Each day, The Globe leads the national discussion by engaging Canadians in its award-winning coverage and analysis of news, politics, business and lifestyle. The Globe and Mail, Canada’s national newspaper, founded in 1844, Report on Business, Canada’s most influential business magazine, and globeandmail.com, the newspaper’s online and mobile media hub, reach a combined 5.7 million readers every week. In addition to being Canada’s most award-winning newspaper for journalism excellence, The Globe has received global recognition for breakthroughs in design and new media, including the Society for News Design’s prizes for World’s Best Designed Website and Best Complete Newspaper Redesign in 2011, the 2011 Digi Award for Best in Digital Publishing, as well as the Emmy Award in 2009 and 2010 in the New Approaches to News and Documentary category. The Globe and Mail is 85% owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family, and Bell Canada (15%).
The Electric Playground is North America’s only daily videogame and entertainment series on television and the web. Since 1995, EP has been covering videogames on location from around the world featuring developer and behind-the-scenes interviews. In addition to videogames, EP features regular reports on industry news and technology, movies and television, and comic books and collectibles. EP is your daily source for videogames, entertainment, and technology.
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KPMG provides Audit, Tax, and Advisory services, working closely with their clients to help them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities. KPMG has offices in 33 locations across the country. The firm's more than 675 partners and 5,000 employees provide crucial services to many of the public and private business, not-for profit, and public-sector organizations in Canada.
triOS Corporation is a Canadian-owned corporation that has developed into an award winning education and technology solutions organization. Founded by Frank Gerencser and Stuart Bentley, their vision is “to improve lives by sharing our knowledge of information and technology." Core to this vision is the selection and investment in their employees to ensure they are highly trained to transfer knowledge to their students and customers.
Telus (TSX: T, T.A; NYSE: TU) is a leading national telecommunications company in Canada, with $10.5 billion of annual revenue and 12.7 million customer connections including 7.4 million wireless subscribers, 3.5 million wireline network access lines and 1.3 million Internet subscribers and more than 550,000 TELUS TV customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle, TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video.
Cognition LLP is an innovative law firm that is structured to deliver commercial and corporate legal services to businesses in the most cost effective manner. With lawyers in Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo, we combine the insight of highly experienced in-house counsel with the flexibility and depth of outside counsel, resulting in more meaningful legal advice from best of breed lawyers who understand their client's operations. Our "virtual" approach – no fancy offices, receptionists or art collections – means only business-minded counsel providing expert advice within a rate structure you may not believe.
Founded in 1975,Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.believe.
Desire2Learn is helping to transform the way the world learns. We provide the next generation learning environment and solutions to engage and inspire learners lifelong. We help our clients break down barriers to accessing the highest quality learning experiences, including being recognized for our leadership on accessibility. Desire2Learn is a global leader in cloud (SaaS) based learning solutions and provides an open and extensible platform to over 700 clients and over 8 million learners in higher education, K-12, healthcare, government and the corporate sector, including the Fortune 1000. Desire2Learn has personnel in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil and Singapore. For more information or to contact us, visit: www.Desire2Learn.com
Unity is all about technology that's both uniquely usable and extremely powerful. Focusing on clear interplay of features and functionality – from your perspective. As a company we are all about building that technology, driving it forwards, and supporting it. Unity is also about bringing together some of the best people in the world, and letting them loose on solving interesting and hard problems for our customers. We aggressively reinvest in development to keep Unity moving and growing at a radical pace, expanding usability, power, and platform reach. We do the hard work so you don't have to, and take the pain so you don't have to.
Brick Brewing Co. Limited is Ontario's largest Canadian-owned and Canadian-based publicly held brewery. The Company is a regional brewer of award winning premium quality and value beers. The Company, founded in 1984, was the first craft brewery to start up in Ontario, and is credited with pioneering the present day craft brewing renaissance in Canada. Brick has complemented its Waterloo brand premium craft beers with other popular brands such as Laker, Red Baron, Waterloo Dark, Red Cap and Formosa Springs Draft. Over the years Brick Brewing has been honoured with over 64 brewing awards in our 26 years of brewing heritage. In 2010 alone we won 3 medals at the Ontario Brewing Awards and 4 medals at the Canadian Brewing Awards. Brick Brewing Company has grown over the years. In our first year of brewing we turned out 35,000 cases of beer and now on our 28th Anniversary, that number has increased north of 2.5 million!
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