This morning the brand new Apple Store in West Edmonton Mall finally opened. Sharon and I arrived at 9:15am, and found ourselves at the back of a line roughly 200 people long. A few of the people I talked to near the front of the line had been waiting since 6am, and apparently one guy [...]

The Casual Games Association is visiting Seattle later this month for Casual Connect Seattle 2008. The three day conference takes place at the Benaroya Hall from July 23 - 25th and promises to unite over 3,000 professionals in the Casual Gaming space. Casual Connect is the educational component of the Casual Games Association, the international trade [...]

In April, Vancouver’s Live Current Media struck a huge deal to launch IPLT20.com as the official site for the DLF Indian Premier League and last week they announced the traffic results from their inaugural season. The official league site attracted over 50 million page views from over 5.2 million unique visitors during its inaugural season which ran [...]

Waterloo-based LoyaltyMatch got a great mention in a New York Times article last week titled Playing Markets that Trade Miles. Some of our readers may remember that Varun Mathur - a Techvibes Toronto contributor - covered LoyaltyMatch’s presentation at StartUpCampToronto2 in April. LoyaltyMatch offers an alternative to traditional travel reward programs by letting travelers convert unused points and miles [...]

June 2008 was a busy month on the Techvibes blog. Five new Guest Contributors joined the mix and traffic continues to be strong. The Top 10 blog posts published in June based on pageviews were: Toronto Start-Up Index - June 2008 Vancouver’s Marqui headed for the Deadpool? Vancouver Start-Up Index - June 2008 TOTLOL.com - YouTube for Kids  Zoomii - a real [...]