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Deloitte’s 2012 media and tech predictions

Earlier this week in Toronto, the research company released its forecasts in areas of technology, media and telecommunications.

Caution: Nuts’ Delmer and Marta tell Canadians’ fortunes

The popular characters from APTN sketch comedy series Caution: May Contain Nuts tell fortunes on love and money via a new interactive digital website to promote the show’s third season.

GameON Finance: Canada is ‘the best country to build a game company’

In his keynote Tuesday, entrepreneur and Big Viking Games founder Albert Lai said Canada is primed to become a major gaming industry player.

Kidobi lands rights for Gombby’s Green Island

The Canadian subscription-based online video platform aggregates educational kids content in its online video library.

iPowow Canada joins the conversation

A new Canadian service based on Australian technology, iPowow links second- and first-screen entertainment in real time.

CRTC should regulate ISPs as broadcasters, Creative Coalition tells court

The Creative Coalition, representing Canadian producers, unions and guilds, is appealing a lower court ruling that internet service providers are content-neutral, and so are not broadcast undertakings.

AToMiC: Rogers and L’Oreal Canada launch beauty series

All content for the six-part Canada’s Best Beauty Talent series, created in conjunction with ZenithOptimedia, will be used across Rogers platforms.

Canadian launches new ‘mob’-driven online TV channel

Creator Aubrey Levy tells Playback about Mobcaster.com, and how audiences can help fund and produce indie TV from the ground up.

Bell Media, Shaw sites in Canadian top 10 for video views

ComScore pegs the broadcaster-driven websites (channel inclusive) in the top 10 in Canada for total video views, but the U.S.-dominated rankings illustrate the challenges of attracting Canadian eyeballs in the borderless online world.

Smokebomb’s Totally Amp’d targets tweens on the go

A new 10-“appisode” series for kids and tweens features unlockable interactive content that lets iOS devices act as music, movie and design studios.

Score Media sees revenue up, profit down at Q1

The Toronto-based broadcaster and digital mediaco posts record revenue in its digital division, but corresponding investment in growth and expansion affect its bottom line.

Best of the Year: Sportsnet

Playback marks Rogers Media’s major expansion of the Sportsnet brand this year by taking a trip through a day in the life of a cross-platform story.