Description: The trend today is to outsource manufacturing to companies that specialize in it. In today’s competitive economy, you must align every aspect of the product design-manufacturing-and sales cycle to have the best chance to succeed. Source: TechVibes Date: January 21, 2014 While Canada’s software sector seems burgeoning with start-ups, there is also a good amount of activity… Read more »
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GuestDriven Raises $3M To Expand Its Hotel Guest Interaction And Loyalty Platform
Description: GuestDriven, a Montreal based start-up, hopes to bring back real-time customer-employee interaction throughout the hotel industry. Source: TechCrunch Date: February 18, 2014 These days, many hotel interactions with their guests happen through third-party platforms: The Travelocities, Yelps, and Foursquares of the world get the feedback that hotels need and depend on, and this generally happens in… Read more »
Step Your Game Up, Retailers! When It Comes to Shopping, Canadians Want – and Expect – It All
Description: Canadian consumers are expecting more and more from retailers and in order to keep up, retailers must be completely mobile accessible, and tell their easily relate-able brand story through all media channels. Source: TechVibes Date: February 27, 2014 Canadian consumers have high demands when it comes to the experience of shopping, according to Total Retail:… Read more »
Could an Apple-Tesla iCar be next?
Description: It may not be too far in the future…a collaboration between the electric car company Tesla and Apple. Source: Globe&Mail Date: February 18, 2014 As Apple’s sales of tablets and phones starts to decrease this year, they start to look at other possible business ventures in otherwise unheard of collaborative industries. Watch Video Questions for discussion: 1…. Read more »
Telus Withdraws CWTA to Put ‘Customers First’
Description: As one of the “Big Three” ditches the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association, Telus claims they are attempting to put the customer first. Source: TechVibes Date: February 28, 2014 Telus has withdrawn from the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association. The Vancouver-based telecommunication company’s decision to pull out from the industry’s main lobby group is a surprise move; all of Canada’s… Read more »
Facebook Hits a Milestone
Description: As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary, we take a look back at its origins, and take a look forward at the future of the company and what it will look like. Source: CNET Date: February 3, 2014 The social network that turned the word “friend” into a verb and popularized the “like button” is turning… Read more »
Are Mobile Apps Now a Requirement for Businesses?
Description: Mobile Apps are they way of the future for almost all businesses. They encourage impulse purchases and without one, your business may be losing out on potential sales. Source: Techvibes Date: February 6, 2014 How’s your business’s mobile app doing? Don’t have one? Turns out you could be leaving significant money on the table. Customers now… Read more »
Rest in Peace, iPod
Description: With the absence of an annual iPod update this past fall, it is fairly evident that the iPod is a dying breed. Can Apple save the device that started it all? Or is there even a point? Source: Mashable Date: January 29, 2014 Apple iPod of Cupertino, Calif., died quietly this week after a… Read more »
A Room with a SKU: SuiteQ Lets You Design a Room and Buy the Contents
Description: A new app, SuiteQ allows you to set up a room with furniture to your liking – and then buy the products. Source: Techvibes Date: January 24, 2014 Every so often, I see start-up companies rehashing an idea that’s been done to death many, many times before, either because they haven’t done their market… Read more »
Following in Vancouver’s Footsteps, Bitcoin ATM Launches in Toronto
Description: As Bitcoin interest mildly increases, an ATM for the virtual currency appears in Toronto. But why use a physical teller machine to deposit virtual money into a virtual account? Source: TechVibes Date: January 17, 2014 In a continued effort to lend an air of legitimacy to the collective fever dream that is BitCoin, a… Read more »
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Introduction to Information Systems, 3rd Canadian Binder Ready Version Update Edition
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