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Globe and Mail columnist, Mark Evans, features Toronto start-up and MaRS client, Tigits. Tigits allows those in the dating scene (and small businesses) to easily set up a second phone number and change it easily.

RIM has bought Ontario-based startup tinyHippos Inc., creator of Ripple, a cross-platform mobile application development and testing tool. tinyHippos is a MaRS client.

MaRS client, Geminare, is recognized in 2011 Business Continuity Awards in Most Innovative Product and Business Continuity Recovery of the Year categories. Continuity, Insurance and Risk (CIR), the UK's leading risk management, business continuity and insurance strategies journal, announced that Geminare Incorporated has been selected as a finalist in its prestigious 2011 Business Continuity Awards

The Globe and Mail features the launch of Canadian-made smartphone application, MyVoice, a MaRS client. MyVoice provides a voice for those who have difficulty speaking for themselves due to autism, aphasia or other medical conditions. As such, it is both a mobile and social innovation technology.

MaRS client and Toronto mobile start-up, PushLife, has been acquired by Google.

This article by Joe Wilson notes how women are leading "tech for change" in the developing world. All of the women interviewed were speakers at Net Change Week (which took place at MaRS in June) - and are truly leading this work globally.