
North drops Focals price, adds prescription support
Less than a month after shipping its first pair of Focals smartglasses, Waterloo-based North is adjusting the price of the wearable. “Everything from manufacturing…
Less than a month after shipping its first pair of Focals smartglasses, Waterloo-based North is adjusting the price of the wearable. “Everything from manufacturing…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has rejected a call to testify before a joint parliamentary committee made up of MPs from both British and Canadian…
Samsung smartphone users in Canada can now use Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) debit and credit cards alongside the company’s mobile payments platform, Samsung…
Airbnb will start collecting both provincial and municipal sales taxes in British Columbia, the provincial government announced on Wednesday. Moving forward, the online home…
Yesterday, Uber worked to persuade the British Columbia government to legalize ride-hailing services in the province. Michael van Hemmen, Uber’s public policy manager for…
After leading the company’s Canadian outfit since 2014, Sam Sebastian, the now former head of operations at Google Canada, has left the company, Google…
On July 24, CIBC will introduce a feature suite called Travel Tools to its iOS and Android mobile banking app. Co-developed with Visa and…
CIBC’s mobile banking app has earned the highest score among five other Canadian banks in a recent study of banking apps. Forrester Research says…
Toronto-based 1Password has added a new ‘travel mode’ to its signature password manager. The new feature is available to all 1Password membership users —…
RBC personal banking customers can now use Siri to send money transfers to their friends and family members. The Royal Bank of Canada added…
It was just last month that Fitbit acquired Pebble, the now defunct wearable startup founded by Canadian Eric Migicovsky, and many of its best…
The sad story of Pebble’s demise may have just taken a turn toward the ugly. In an article dated to December 13th, 9to5Google‘s Ben…
A new report from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman indicates Fibit is close to finalizing a deal to acquire Pebble. Unfortunately for the startup and its…