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It’s not too often that a news story affects my workflow to the point where it’s somewhat ironic, but on Monday that happened.Telus, my home Internet service provider had been having issues all day, and reports were that it was not isolated to my house, my city or even my province. It appeared as if many Telus customers in British Columbia had been dealing with intermittent DSL service through much of Monday — and some did not have any access at all....

It appears as if Telus, the Canadian based telecom giant, is getting serious about offering its customers a quality music subscription service offering. So serious that, starting today, Rdio became the sole provider of its subscription music services. To promote the new service Telus will be giving away free subscriptions to select new and existing subscribers. The spotlight has been shining on Rdiorecently, as music subscription service models are beginning to take a foothold in the mainstream....

Telus,a major wireless provider in Canada hasjust announcedthat as of February 15th, it will be offering customers the option to unlock most of its SIM-based devices, giving users the freedom to activate its phones on other networks. The cost for unlocking will be $50 and is limited to post-paid (phones on a contract) devices that have been activated for at least 90 days, according to today’s post on the Telus corporate blog....

The Next Web was at theSpringboardInvestor Day in Cambridge, England, and we were privy to ten startups pitching and demoing their way to funding from the investors in attendance. Springboard is an intensive 13-week programme based at theideaSpace, which is part of Cambridge University’s state-of-the-art Hauser Forum. The purpose of the annual Springboard programme is to provide seed capital, office space and a “smart-community” with mentors helping budding entrepreneurs accelerate their businesses....

Tencent bounces hard after President Xi spooks market into $200B tech selloff Stock traders are into Tencent’s 89% profit increase, regardless of all that anti-monopoly stuff Tencent investors spooked by Xi’s anti-monopoly plans Tencent’s post-earnings stock rally comes just as investors dumped more than $200 billion worth of equity on Tuesday, and one week after thecurious suspensionof Alibaba subsidiary Ant Financial’s much-anticipated US IPO (which would’ve been the biggest in history....