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TheScore reports surge in app users, annual loss

TheScore Inc. reported record growth across its digital properties in 2012 and a slight increase in annual revenues.

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Protect local B.C. TV stations from competition with CBC, Pattison says

The CRTC should ban CBC/Radio-Canada from collecting local and regional TV advertising revenues in the Kamloops and Prince George, B.C. television markets, Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Ltd. said Wednesday.

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‘It’s time to get tough’ with movie downloaders, Voltage Pictures says

Los Angeles-based Voltage Pictures LLC will launch a broad legal campaign in Canada, the United States and United Kingdom in the next month or two to set an example and “get tough” with unauthorized movie downloaders, Michael Wickstrom, manager of royalties with the studio, said on a Vancouver radio show.

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CBC names executive editor as new ombudsman

CBC/Radio-Canada appointed Esther Enkin to the position of CBC ombudsman for English services, the public broadcaster said Wednesday.

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220M smart TVs to be sold in 2017: report

More than 220 million smart TV sets will be sold globally in 2017, United Kingdom-based research firm Informa Telecoms & Media said Wednesday.

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Startup Canada launches innovation action plan

Startup Canada, a nonprofit created this year, launched a new action plan to drive economic development, job creation and entrepreneurial innovation in Canada, the network said Tuesday.

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Jets’ success supports calls for Quebec NHL team

The Winnipeg Jets’s success after moving from Atlanta in 2011 “buttresses” the case for relocating another NHL franchise to Quebec City, Forbes magazine reported.

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Capacity billing rates make or break for wholesale Internet regime, small ISPs say

The CRTC's review of the “capacity-based billing” rates it established in November 2011 will make or break wholesale Internet services provided by the incumbent cable and telecom companies, the chief executives of two small Internet service providers (ISPs) said.

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Rate of lost, stolen cellphones falling, CWTA says

Incidents of lost or stolen mobile phones fell by 15 per cent in 2011 and are on track to fall again in 2012, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) said, citing carrier data.

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Hearing for Competition Bureau-Chatr case moved to March

The Ontario Superior Court moved to March a hearing on the Competition Bureau's lawsuit against Rogers Communications Inc. for alleged "misleading advertising" related to its discount Chatr wireless brand.

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