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Toronto now being powered by Polar Mobile

The Globe & Mail recently featured Polar Mobile, a 30-person Toronto-based startup that creates mobile applications for smart phones. The company which already boasts TIME Magazine, Sports Illustrated and BusinessWeek among its customers, is now working with number of Asia's biggest publications to develop the mobile versions of their websites.

"Polar is on the cutting edge of a new technology phenomenon fuelled by the rise of the app generation: call it reverse outsourcing.

"A number of Asia's biggest publications have just signed deals with the firm to develop the mobile versions of their websites, leveraging Polar's content management system. The deals lend credence to a growing sentiment in technology sectors: that Toronto and Waterloo, where Polar was founded and where Research In Motion has its headquarters, are joining Silicon Valley as the world's application development hotbeds."

"The market had exploded," says Polar CEO Kunal Gupta. "Global expansion is big on our priority list. Polar, which started three years ago in Waterloo and has since moved to Toronto and opened a New York office, has signed deals with Hong Kong news portal MingPao, as well as Indonesia's largest paper, Kompas, and the Shanghai Daily."

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