William Pearce Email & Phone Number

• Pearce was the first distributor of video games in Canada. In the 1980s, his success helped make Atari, Intellivision, and Coleco household names in Canada during the video gaming industry’s golden era. Pearce was the first to import Nintendo games into Canada.• Pearce was the first to establish a specialty video game retail chain. He co-founded Microplay Video Games in 1987 and used his own specialized custom software to develop it into a franchise model in 1992. By 1995, when Pearce sold his interest in the company, Microplay had expanded to over 120 locations worldwide, with locations in Canada, the United States, and abroad.• Pearce was the first to use the Internet to connect multiple partners in the video game industry’s supply chain with inventory management, transaction processing, and decision-support systems. His innovative technology solution addressed long-standing industry problems.• In 2004, Pearce was the first to invent an easy-to-use automated web page information extraction and interchange technology (Method for Automatically Filling in Web Forms, more commonly known as Auto-fill and Auto-complete.) This type of system is now used in all modern web pages, browsers, and on mobile devices everywhere. Of note, Pearce’s invention has been cited in intellectual property subsequently developed by Microsoft, IBM, Google, Oracle, Trend Micro, Intuit, Lenovo, American Express, Canon, and dozens of other firms. See https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050216356A1/en • In 2007, Pearce helped Telus subcontractor Alta Telecom install Canada's first Alcatel remote Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) in the Vancouver area.• In 2019, Pearce recognized an arbitrage opportunity to exploit valuation differences of multiple cryptocurrency products across multiple exchanges in real time, and created automatic trading systems.• In 2023, Pearce was granted the first of several Patents in the US and the UK for a simple but effective method of stopping the phishing epidemic. (Similar patents in India and Canada have been applied for and are currently pending.) Pearce’s human-compatible approach can be integrated with and adapted to any existing email system. In an era when an increased dependence on technology often leads to increased vulnerability, Pearce’s innovation brings human capabilities back to the front lines of protecting individual and corporate assets.

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