Rogers Spinoff Vicinity Helps Small Businesses Build Loyalty
From restaurants and coffee shops to dry cleaners and yoga studios, Canadians can now earn points and redeem offers at local…
Launches
Vancouver’s Lighthouse Labs To Launch iOS Bootcamp
Vancouver-based coding school Lighthouse Labs is launching Canada’s first iOS “bootcamp”. The course will…
CanadaPost Beefs Up Offerings for Merchants Using Shopify, Other Ecommerce Platforms
CanadaPost might be taking 45 years to deliver letters to people, but it is trying its best to help out small business owners…
BDC Introduces New Resiliency Award, Says It’s Okay to Fail
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) is introducing another award for Canadian entrepreneurs. Back in January the…
Open Text Opens South American Hub in Sao Paulo
Waterloo’s Open Text, the global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM), has announced the opening of a…
Chinese Incubator Partners Up with InvestOttawa, Names Initial Four Startups
The Chinese Zhongguancun Development Group (ZDG) has officially announced the selection of four Ottawa-based companies chosen…
BlackBerry To Reward Student App Developers with New Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair
BlackBerry is about to help out a handful of student app developers in a big way. Today the embattled Canadian smartphone maker…
Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
New Dragons’ Den star Michael Wekerle is launching a $200 million investment fund in Waterloo, to be aimed at startups…
ShopLocket moves into content creation with Blueprint, a how-to portal for hardware entrepreneurs
No longer forced to stay lean after its acquisition by PCH International, Toronto-based ShopLocket has expanded from e-commerce…
New York’s Handybook, the “Uber for Household Services” Expands to Toronto
Yesterday was a big day for Handybook, the New York-based startup backed with $15.7 million in venture capital. The startup…
Alumnus Donates $150K To Let U of Windsor Students Make Investments
John Simpson, the managing director for Ridgeview Capital Asset Management, has donated $150,000 to the University of Windsor’s…
LX Ventures and Mobio Want You to Get Paid for Being on Twitter
LX Ventures and one of it’s spin-off companies, Mobio INsider, wants “niche social media influencers” to…
Canadian Tire to Unveil Cloud Computing Centre and “App Factory” Next Week
Canadian Tire will unveil the new Canadian Tire Cloud Computing Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, next Tuesday. “One of…
MakeWorks brings the maker movement to shared workspaces, hosting Toronto launch party next week
A converted factory in the base of an old west-end building is the site for Toronto’s first shared workspace for makers.…
What Happens When One Canadian Startup Acquires Another? A Cool New Product Is Born
500px Prime, a new kind of commercial marketplace for image licensing, celebrates its official launch this week. When Toronto…