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Great news: GigPark acquired by Canpages

I'm *extremely* happy to say that our company, GigPark, has been purchased by one of the fastest growing businesses in Canada, Canpages.

For all of the details you can check out:

• Press release
• GigPark blog
• A great story on StartupNorth
• Globe and Mail story
• TechCruch post
• National Post story
• ... and lots of comments on twitter

I'm planning on spending the next few weeks saying thank you to all of the incredible people who helped build and grow GigPark - as a product, a buinsess and a community. These fine folks deserve extra special mention:

• Noah Godfrey - the best business partner I could possibly wish for
• Paul Dowman - our Director of Technology and, for all intents and purposes, the 3rd founder of GigPark
• Tony Targonski and Gianni Chiappetta - our massively talented and absolutely hilarious developers. These guys are the future of the tech scene on Canada
• Our 25 first beta members who were kind enough to meet with us and provide invaluable feedback for many months - you are the heart and soul of the GigPark community!
• Our first few business members including Rannie and Alistair who helped us build our businesses product
• Jaspal Riyait - one of Canada's best designers and the talent who (together with Gianni) created the look and feel of the site
• Erica Godfrey - another incredibly talented designer and the creator of the beautiful GigPark logo
• Clayton Hanmer - long time GigPark user and the person responsible for the fantastic illustrations on GigPark
• Rob Hyndman - our fearless lawyer. If you are running a tech company in Canada please hire this man. He is simply incredible to work with
• Stephen Shulman - one heck of an accountant! Which, as it turns out, is a pretty important thing to have :)
• All of the people that gave us invaluable advice over the last 3 years including: Mike McDerment, Mike Masnick, Mark Fletcher, Mark Shedletsky, Dre Labre, Dan Debow, Mark Evans, Mathew Ingram, Stuart MacDonald, Jevon MacDonald, Jonas Brandon, John Phillips Green, Malgosia Green, Jay Goldman, Leila Boujnane, Paul Bloore, David Crow, Albert Lai, Anand Agarawala, Rick Segal, Michael Holland, Erick Schonfeld, Mark Dowds, Greg Wilson, Jodi Brown, Paul Godfrey, Mike Cassidy, Chris Sukornyk, George Telidis, Hector Catre, Kirk Lapointe, Pat Lor, Sonya Meloff, David Stein, Danny Khatib, Tony Mamone, Dave Kashen, Michael Williams, Reuven Cohen, Shawn Konopinsky, Candice Faktor, Darren Morgenstern, Max Ventilla, Rick Camilleri and all of the other fantastic people I've forgotten to mention (sorry!).

Cheers! :)