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Corel Corporation last week announced it has signed an agreement with the Rovi Coporation to purchase the Roxio line of software products which includes Roxio creator and Roxio Toast. With over 1,000 employees, Ottawa based Corel is now one of the world's biggest personal computer software...

Just before Christmas, the TVA Group announced plans to sell its half interest in the "Mystery TV" specialty channel and its 51% interest in "The Cave" specialty TV channel to Shaw Media. Financial terms of the proposed transaction, which is pending CRTC approval, were not disclosed. If the...

The number of cable operators in Canada continues to decline after Shaw Communications Inc., Canada's second largest cable operator, announced today that it was set to acquire the Campbell River Cable System. CRTV had about 13,500 cable subs and 4,000 HSI subscribers.