Newfoundland’s RDC Launches Program Targeting Top STEM High School Students
The Research & Development Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador (RDC) announced today the launch of its third annual…
2013
Half of Canadian Consumers Would Switch Doctors If It Meant Access to E-Records
Viva accessible medical e-records! Viva transparency in patient files! That’s what over half of surveyed Canadian consumers…
Canadian Film Centre and Mind Pirate Launch Wearable Tech Program for Startups
I hope all the wearable tech people are paying attention to this cool story that came our way this morning: The Canadian Film…
eBay Canada Announces Ninth Annual Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
Around 2003 it was a really cool time for younger people who recognized the money-making potential of eBay. I was 15 or 16…
Mobile Payments Are Up 27% Over The Past Four Months
Mobile payments are the way of commerce’s future, and using one’s smartphone to do that is the preferred method.…
BEST Funds Makes a $3 Million Bet on Mobile Sales Tool
Oakville-based mobile sales technology company Skura Corporation has received $3 million in venture capital funding from Toronto’s…
Ubisoft To Hire 500 in Montreal, Announces $373 Million Plan
Ubisoft is announcing today that it will hire 500 employees over the next seven years to work at its Montreal headquarters,…
Toronto’s SongFreaks Merges Lyrics with YouTube Videos
Toronto-based music startup SongFreaks updated its iOS app this week, and it see’s the app as one that will âchange…
OMsignal Adds Another Investor to Its Biometric Shirt Startup
On the heel’s of June’s $1 million seed investment, Montreal-based biometric apparel company OMsignal has added…
PayMint and MovieTickle Win MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge, Each Takes Home $10,000
The winners of the MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge were announced yesterday evening after 20 teams of developers had coded…
Conservatives Visit Vancouver Amid Concerns About the Startup Visa
Immigration is our story. Immigrant brawn helped settle our Prairies and connect our country with a railroad. Immigrant brains…
Check Out Some of These Ideas from Mastercard’s NXT Developer Challenge
Update: The two “student” teams heading to the semifinals are “The Coyotes” and “Paymint”,…
MasterCard’s NXT Developer Challenge Is Underway in Toronto
The MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge is lively and underway at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Scores of  laptop wielding…
Toronto’s Snapy Integrates PayPal Data with Quickbooks
Connecting a payment application to credit card processing networks is difficult, expensive and beyond the resources of most…
These Three Tech Visionaries Will Make You Proud To Be Canadian
Iâve just witnessed the future and let me tell you, it is going to blow your mind. Itâs a future where circuit-filled blankets…