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 “change…
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…
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…
The $10,000 Kiss My App Contest Is Open to Undergraduate Students
Canadian undergraduate students will have the chance to design an app and win $10,000 via the “Kiss My App Contest”,…
Banking Fees Are Too High Say Canadian Small Business Owners
Small business owners seem to prefer Scotiabank above all other Canadian banks, but overall satisfaction among these customers…
Canadians Are Accessing More Content on Different Platforms, Continue to Pay Big Cell Phone Bills
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has released its annual Communications Monitoring Report,…