Kickstarter Campaign for “World’s Oldest Toy” Has Now Raised Over 29x Original Funding Goal
It really is amazing what kinds of crowdfunding projects can appeal to people. I suppose this has always been the promise of…
UTChinese Network To Throw EXCITE2014 Conference Saturday
UT (University of Toronto) Chinese‘s EXCITE2014 Entrepreneurship Conference is all set for Saturday. The conference brings…
Video: Extreme Startups Company Dubb Turns Users’ Contacts Into a Discoverable Network
In our third video interview with Extreme Startups, Joseph Czikk chats with Dubb CEO Neven Zeremski at DX3 2014 in Toronto.…
GROW Conference Heads to Whistler This Year
GROW Conference, the American-made startup conference typically held in Vancouver, is changing its venue location this year.…
CrowdFundFusion Aggregates Nearly Every Project Out There
Jon Mushey loves hearing the personal stories of crowdfunding campaign creators. So much so that the Winnipeg-based project…
Toronto’s Aislelabs Raises $1.5 Million, Provides Intelligent In-Store Marketing via the Cloud
Toronto-based startup Aislelabs has raised $1.5 million in venture capital from IAF, Rho Ventures, Salesforce Inc. and a number…
Toronto-Waterloo Corridor to Get More GO Trains By 2016
Everyday there’s a bus bringing Google employees from Toronto, where they live, to work in Waterloo. And you can bet…
Less Than Half of Canadian Small Businesses Have an Online Presence
Less than half (41 percent) of Canadian small businesses have an online presence, according to a new report issued this morning…
Motherly Influence: Ideon Media Acquires Pair of Mom Blogs, Forms “The SavvyMom Group”
There’s a lot of new and soon-to-be moms out there who’s eyeballs are consistently glued to “mom blogs”. Clearly…
Waterloo’s Apartmint Is an All-In-One Solution for Landlords and Renters
“I think there’s a lot of problems in this industry in general and I haven’t seen something come forward and try…
120 Left Jobless as BlackBerry Continues Its Descent
Embattled Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has laid off 120 employees this morning. The Waterloo Record reported…
Several BC Startups Named “Ready to Rocket” Companies for 2014
Several Vancouver and BC-based startups have been named “Ready to Rocket” ICT companies for 2014 by Ready to…
Canadian Indentity-Privacy Pioneer Austin Hill Has a Message for the Founders of Whisper and Secret
Two new apps called Secret and Whisper that encourage anonymous posting were all the conversation last week among high-profile…
Toronto’s Encore Wants to Give Concert-Goers the Digital Equivalent of a Ticket Stub
About 70 percent of concert-goers take photos or videos with their phones or digital cameras, which is either really annoying…
BetaKit at #SXSW: Chatting With PPLCONNECT at a Bar in Austin
In our final interview of Austin, Managing Editor Joseph Czikk speaks with Montreal’s PPLCONNECT, fresh off their big…