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By Douglas Soltys April 28, 2015

Payso wins OCE FinTech Investor Pitch Competiton

The OCE Discovery conference is taking place today in downtown Toronto at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. New to the conference…

By Nik Badminton April 28, 2015

Canada is home to many great citizens, thinkers, inventors, activists, and marketers. We often forget that culture bubbles…

By Douglas Soltys April 28, 2015

The next monthly edition of We Are Wearables is fast descending on the MaRS Discovery District. May 5th’s event will be almost…

By Ian Hardy April 28, 2015

Kensington Capital Partners announced the Kensington Venture Fund last November with an initial closing of $160 million, and…

By Ian Hardy April 27, 2015

Well over 3,000 people have lost their life due to a massive earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday. Reports are still coming…

By Eric Leamen April 27, 2015

With over three thousand applications available at launch, it’s clear that third-party developers are excited about the Apple…

By Ian Hardy April 27, 2015

One of the “most powerful Canadians” has stepped up and pledged to donate millions towards Wilfrid Laurier University.…

By Elena Yunusov April 24, 2015

The Future Design School launched in Toronto this week, a new initiative to encourage entrepreneurship in high schools around…

By Ian Hardy April 24, 2015

New York-based BuzzFeed, the incredibly popular site that’s built off top-10 lists and viral news, recently announced…

By Douglas Soltys April 24, 2015

Another Thursday night, another episode of The Disruptors. This week’s episode was all about straight talk, as hosts Amber…

By Ian Hardy April 24, 2015

So far, 2015 has proven to be for Communitech. In the first quarter, the innovation center has shut down its HYPERDRIVE accelerator…

By Douglas Soltys April 23, 2015

When Freelancer.com hit 15 million worldwide users a few weeks back, it shared metrics on Canadian usage of the freelancing…

By Igor Bonifacic April 23, 2015

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce announced today that it will be creating a new innovation hub inside of the MaRS Discovery…

By Douglas Soltys April 23, 2015

FounderFuel’s Demo Day is just a few weeks away. But for many bootstrapped startups, the cost of travel to the beautiful…

By Douglas Soltys April 22, 2015

A few weeks back, social giant Facebook announced that U.S. users would soon be able to send money to each other via the company’s…