Start Small and End Big: Four Easy Strategies to Get Your Small Business Online Buzz
Social media has changed the way small businesses engage with customers, promote their products and increase brand awareness,…
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New Mobile App Reads Kids’ Respiratory Rate Faster, More Accurately
A new mobile app developed by University of British Columbia (UBC) researchers can measure respiratory rate in children roughly…
Ryerson University’s DMZ Named World’s 5th Best University Incubator Program
The University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, a Stockholm-Sweden produced report that names what it believes to be the 25…
BetaKit Wants to Send You to This Summer’s GROW Conference
Update: Thanks to all of our readers for all the wonderful and insightful responses. A winner has been selected and will be…
New BDC-Backed Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator Will Give Startups $500,000
More government money is going towards Canadian startups, this time to those in the health sciences sector. The Business Development…
SalesForce to Beef Up Canadian Presence, Will Open Two New Data Centres
SalesForce today announced that it will launch two new data centres in Canada in a bid to further increase both investment…
Investor Analytics Platform HockeyStick Lands The NAO-O as a Client
One might think that the best kind of client to land might be an venture capital firm. It looks like Toronto’s HockeyStick…
Extreme Startups and 500 Startups Grad FameBit Allows Youtube Celebs to Get Paid (A lot)
There’s a 24-year-old Swedish guy who makes videos on Youtube, where he comments on horror and action video games. To…
Wearable Tech Startup OMsignal Raises $10 Million Series A Round
Montreal’s OMsignal, which calls itself “the leader in smart clothing technology” and maker of the first-ever…
LX Ventures Transitions from Investor to Startup, Is Now Mobio Technologies
LX Ventures has changed its name to Mobio Technologies, as it pushes forward with greater focus on its popular and fast-growing…
Ontario “Cheese Whiz” Wins BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Award Contest
The votes are in and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has named its 2014 Young Entrepreneur Award winner, in Gunn’s Hill…
After Seven Years of Bootstrapping, UBC-Born TaskTop Technologies Raises $11 Million
TaskTop Technologies, a startup out of Vancouver that created a software development toolkit integration technology, has raised…
Why We Work Remote: The Evolution of the Work Place
Last year in December of 2013, we made a decision to give up our office space in the Accelerator Center in Waterloo and become…
Montreal’s Chic Marie Rents Out Designer Dresses and Suits for a Fraction of the Price
Marie-Philip Simard, a long-time Montreal lawyer, said going to law events meant that she had to look sharp, and that came…
The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program
According to the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Toronto-based startup accelerator Extreme Startups, dozens of entrepreneurial-minded…