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Financing, consumer adoption obstacles to VR: study

A new report indicates that the number of companies operating in the virtual reality space in Canada has grown quickly in the past few years, though they say obstacles to their success include consumer adoption, financing and the maturity of the market overall.

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TNW Wireless, iFramed sold to U.S. company

Investel Capital Corp.’s TNW Wireless Inc. has been sold to an American holding and management company, United American Corp., the Florida-based company announced in a Wednesday press release.

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Plan comes together for TV subs boost in Shaw Q3: Mehr

Shaw Communications Inc.’s increased TV and Internet subscription numbers in the year’s third fiscal quarter reflect a team effort to increase the company’s wireline business, president and chief operating officer Jay Mehr said Wednesday.

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Five Eyes watching online terror content

Representatives from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance have issued a statement lauding the creation of a coalition by some of the world’s biggest tech companies aimed at tackling terrorist content online.

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Supreme Court’s Google search ban could have global implications

OTTAWA — In a landmark ruling, Canada’s top court dismissed an appeal by Alphabet Inc. Wednesday and upheld a worldwide ban on search results of a company that Equustek Solutions Inc. said infringed on its products, in a move that could influence future takedown cases in other jurisdictions, experts say.

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Tech giants coordinating to tackle terror content

Some of the world’s largest technology and social media companies are forming a coalition to counter terrorism.

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WGC asks Joly to reverse CRTC licence decision

The Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) has formalized its complaint against the CRTC’s recent TV licence renewal decision in the form of an appeal to Canadian Heritage asking it to reverse the ruling it says harms the production of Canadian content.

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EU fines Google 2.4B euros

The European Union has fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google 2.4 billion euros — about $3.6 billion in Canadian dollars — for giving itself an “illegal advantage” in its search results.

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Philippe Cloutier new Videotron CFO

Quebecor Inc.’s Videotron has named Philippe Cloutier its senior vice-president and chief financial officer, the company said in a press release Tuesday.

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U.S. NAFTA consult targets CanCon, copyright, data rules

American companies and organizations took aim at Canadian cultural protections, the country’s copyright regime and expressed concern over any potential rules requiring domestic storage of data, when given the chance to provide feedback to their government on priorities to tackle in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

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