Category Archives: Business

Globe and Mail iPad App Launches

I just downloaded the Globe and Mail’s new iPad app. This is the second high profile Canadian iPad app to be released in the last few days, the first being The Score. The Globe’s app is actually very nice. You … Continue reading

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Won the Telfer Business Model Competition!

On Wednesday I competed with three great team members in the Telfer Business Model Competition. Up against 20+ really strong teams, we came out on top and won 1st place. Our business BadServer.ca – which I like to describe as … Continue reading

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TelferBooks.com – buy/sell textbooks

At the end of last summer I quickly created a classifieds website for Telfer students to buy and sell their used textbooks. Students often sell their books back to the bookstore at criminally low prices. TelferBooks would offer an easy … Continue reading

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Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge

Recently I was selected as one of 16 students at the Telfer School of Management to participate in the Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge. The school describes this event as: “The Entrepreneurial Culture Challenge (ECC) is a one year competition through which … Continue reading

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MISA Club website redesign is live!

As the VP Marketing/Creative for the MISA Club at the Telfer School of Management, I managed the project of building a new website for MISA. After a lot of design revisions and scrapping various drafts throughout the summer, the new … Continue reading

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RIM acquires Torch Mobile, browser developers

I just read on CrackBerry that RIM has acquired Torch Mobile, a company that develops a WebKit browser for mobile devices. This browser, Iris, sounds interesting. Here is Torch Mobile’s description of it: The Iris Browser is an advanced, high-performance … Continue reading

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Are URL shorteners a business?

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Bit.ly is going to be big

Or so TechCrunch seems to think. Reading TechCrunch for the past month I have noticed one thing, they have found a way to link to their story about Bit.ly Now almost everyday. Bit.ly is definitely an interesting service. The company … Continue reading

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Apple’s Pricing for In App Purchases in iPhone Apps

With the 3.0 iPhone and iPod touch software update, Apple added many new features for the user and new APIs for developers. In App Purchases, or Store Kit as Apple’s developer resources call it, allows apps to offer additional features … Continue reading

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Running Google AdSense

You may have noticed that I now have a Google Ad running on the sidebar of the website. I realize that I am never going to actually make money off of the website, I am just running the ads for … Continue reading

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