Canadian Student Wins $10,000 “Kiss My App” Contest
To see one of Canada’s busiest labour and delivery hospital networks facilitate a national app contest that benefits…
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NASA and Communitech to Throw International Space Apps Challenge 2014
NASA and Waterloo’s Communitech hub is preparing to throw Canada’s version of the NASA International Space Apps…
Born Out of Invoke Labs, Vancouver’s BrightKit Forges Ahead in the Contest Space
After a name change in September and a bit of work with big name clients since, Vancouver’s social marketing contest…
Sunnybrook and Ryerson Brains Get $100,000 for New Chemo Research
Two heads of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Ryerson University have received $100,000 for their clinical technique that…
From Machine Code to the Code of Life: Chatting With Genome BC’s Dr. Alan Winter
“The issue in genomics is that we’re at about 1983 on the IT side. The applications in genomics today are much like spreadsheets…
Kitfox Games Doesn’t Want Its Titles to be Pushovers
Montreal-based indie gaming studio Kitfox Games doesn’t want its titles to be easy to play. The 10-month-old firm started…
Wattpad Secures $46 million in Funding, Aims to “Become One of the Most Successful Consumer Internet Companies in the World”
I always wonder at what point a company just has enough money. I suppose the Toronto-based writing platform Wattpad didn’t…
Seamless Mobile Health, Learning Bird Among Winners at TiEQuest 2014
Canada’s largest business venture competition announced its winners late last week, when TiEQuest 2014 crowned Seamless…
Watch It Here: HBO Releases First Episode of “Silicon Valley” on Youtube
We’ve known for a while that Mike Judge’s new series Silicon Valley was going to be just as popular in Canadian…
Toronto Public Library Introduces Netflix-Like Service
Toronto Public Library has introduced a new service that allows members with a library card to download or stream music and…
Waterloo Student Creates Popular Tool Set for Hearthstone Game
Although I couldn’t find any concrete stats online over how many people made an account for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft,…
Halifax’s Compilr Gets Acquired by US-Based Online Education Company
Halifax-based startup Compilr, a software coding and development editor that allows people to learn, write, compile and test…
Cascadia Shines As Vancouver’s “Startup-Palooza”
It was like “startup-palooza,” as Vancouver’s five key accelerators and incubators got together to throw a massive…
A Four-Month Stint in NYC Helped This Canadian Startup Pivot (And Maybe Even Raise)
Things are going pretty well right now for Now In Store, the Montreal-founded startup that previously went through the FounderFuel…
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.…