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Apple is set to open 40 new retail stores this year alone. As a result, the company is now among one of the few retailers that are hiring employees in a big way. However, the Cupertino giant pays close attention to how it hires winning personalities for its industry leading retail stores, reveals an interesting story by The Forbes. The...

According to a report from the Globe and Mail, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is set to be the first bank to offer a mobile digital wallet to Canadians, with a debut slated for October of this year: Royal Bank of Canada is expected to be first into the market in October, when it...

TomTom has released the results of their TomTom Congestion Index, an initiative that started in 2007 with the purpose of revealing real-life driving patterns captured by anonymous user data around the world. The company notes they have built the world's largest database of historic travel times and the most detailed and accurate real-time traffic info...

In an exclusive interview with CRN held in Toronto, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some tough words against fellow tech rival Apple. He noted Microsoft in the past had "ceded some of the boundary between hardware and software innovation" to Apple but with the upcoming release of the Surface, that will soon change. "We are trying...

Earlier this week it was reported Apple had removed itself from registering its products via EPEAT, an environmental rating system. Apple has responded to concerns over their withdrawal from EPEAT in a statement released to The Loop: “Apple takes a comprehensive approach to measuring our environmental impact and all of our products meet the strictest...

The folks over at Gotta Be Mobile have posted purported images of an engineering sample for the next generation iPhone 5: Exclusive photos of an iPhone 5 engineering sample straight from a factory in China show the new phone will be slightly taller, slightly thinner and about the same width. A trusted source inside the...

9to5Mac has posted an internal video of an Apple corporate employee recruiting video that documents what life is like working at their Cupertino headquarters. The four and a half minute video is narrated by Apple VP of Human Resources and Dean of Apple University, Joel Podolny and covers a wide range of areas about engineering, design...

Last month with the launch of iOS 6 beta, Apple introduced an all new Passbook digital wallet app at the WWDC 2012 event and today, a new Apple patent which relates to NFC-enabled transportation ticketing, further increases speculations of NFC capabilities coming to future iOS devices (via MacRumors). The patent reveals a new the disclosed "iTravel" application which would apparently handle a...

The Wall Street Journal was first to break the news about Google circumventing the security of Mobile Safari users on iOS, and now they also are the first to report the settlement between Google and the FTC: Google Inc. is close to a deal to pay $22.5 million to settle charges related to its surreptitious...

This week at Starbucks you'll find the free Song Pick of the Week as the Metric's single Breathing Under Water. The Canadian indie rock bank is from Toronto and this freebie should definitely keep fans happy. Starbucks alternates free song/app picks every week, and you'll be able to find this week's song cards on display...

Apple has released the final beta of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion to developers. The GM releases is highly recognized to be the almost finished, and pretty close to the public version of any software Apple has released. At last months keynote, at WWDC 2012, Apple announced that Mountain Lion would be released sometime in...

Last Monday, U.S District Judge Lucy Koh denied Samsung's request to lift ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab sales in the region. However, a  U.K. judge has ruled in favor of Samsung today saying that its Galaxy tablets aren’t “cool” enough to be confused with Apple's iPad and therefore the design for Samsung's three Galaxy tablets doesn’t infringe Apple’s registered design,...