TELUS to invest more than $1.1 billion across Ontario through 2016

TELUS is looking to invest $1.1 billion in new infrastructure and wireless technology across Ontario through 2016.

TELUS will invest $500 million across the province in 2014, the final year of a three-year plan unveiled in 2012, and today committed to spending another $600 million throughout 2015 and 2016 to provide critical fibre optic communications links to business clients, advanced healthcare solutions to consumers, expanded cloud computing data centre solutions, and to bring the world’s fastest wireless technology to more Ontario communities.

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Poynt and Missing Children's Society of Canada partner to help find missing children

There are over 50,000 open missing children cases in Canada alone, each one leaving a family destroyed and friends devastated.

To aid in the seemingly endless fight against missing children, Poynt Corp., a hyper location-based mobile app that helps customers find nearby deals, movies, gas prices, events, people, restaurants, and more, has partnered with MCSC to create a system where the Poynt app releases Amber Alerts directly to the cell phone of consumers who are in the area where the missing child is believed to be.

The notifications include important information about the missing child’s active case such as last known location, physical description, photos and other pertinent details to help Poynt users in the area identify the missing child.   

In addition, Poynt and MCSC are encouraging consumers to donate their Facebook and Twitter profiles, allowing for a message to be released through the consumer’s newsfeed alerting their social networks of the missing child as well.

Poynt and MCSC refer to this system as The World’s Most Valuable Social Network, using the mobile connectivity that has become such a staple part of daily life to help bring missing children back to their loved ones.

Grand & Toy's new website moves beyond products to segmented services

By Gadjo Cardens Sevilla

As part of its corporate transformation and brand strategy, Canadian office solutions provider Grand & Toy recently launched its new website and e-commerce solution at www.grandandtoy.com.

Aside from being an online catalogue and e-store, the redesigned Grand & Toy website offers small, mid and large businesses access to services, solutions and resources as well as live online help.

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LinkedIn expands offices to Canada

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Popular business and career social networking portal LinkedIn Corp. has announced plans to open up shop in Canada to better support its growing number of users which have doubled in number to two million members from a year ago.

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