According to a new SEC filing, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg now owns 29.3 percent of Facebook’s Class A shares, more than he owned when the company went public last year. At IPO time, Zuck owned a 28.2 percent stake. At current market value, the CEO’s stake is worth $13.6 billion. Thanks to stock […]
Back in April John MacDonell, Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations Minister, proposed to bill to legislation that would help those wireless customers who “feel trapped in their cell phone contracts.” The details were similar to Quebec’s Bill 60 and Manitoba’s Bill 35 where carriers would have to advertise the minimum monthly costs of a […]
Microsoft has launched their Skype Video Messages feature to iOS, Android and Mac. The company has been working on the update since last year, and even accidentally leaked some features late in 2012. Video Messages allows Skype users to send up to 3 minutes of video to each other, and can be used online or […]
According to a recent IDC survey, 91% of Canadian smartphone owners keep their devices in reach 100% of the time. Think about that statistic for a moment. There are roughly 21 million smartphones in use Canada, with a 59% adoption rate across the carriers. Nineteen million Canadians are never more than a few steps from […]
Facebook CMO David Fischer has confirmed; auto-play video ads may be coming to your news feed soon. While the exec admitted that the ads can be distracting, he says “I believe there are ways we could do it.” Fischer, speaking at this week’s Future Of Media Keynote, says businesses have been asking for ways to […]
The rollout of iOS 6.1 hasnt gone as smoothly for Apple as the company would have liked. Not only did the initial release introduce a number of security issues and battery problems, in addition to a wallop of a 3G connectivity bug for iPhone 4S users in Europe, the follow-up version, iOS 6.1.1 released last […]
This news is a bit of a shocker. Nadir Mohamed, President and Chief Executive Officer of Rogers, has decided to retire from company effective January 2014. Mohamed took on this role on March 30th, 2009 and there was no specific reason in the press release for his departure, only that he’s ensured that “the company’s […]
In a filing with the SEC released today, former RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie has revealed he no longer owns any shares of a company he helped found. As of December 31st, 2012, Balsillie had zero shares in RIM; he owned 26.8 million on December 31st, 2011. But after being outed as CEO alongside longtime partner […]