U of Waterloo Student Startup Wearability Takes $13K At Norman Esch Awards
A University of Waterloo student startup has received $13,000 for its victorious “Wearability” product design at…
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Canadian-Made AppDirect Raises $35M in Series C Money
AppDirect CEO Daniel Saks says his company doesn’t actually need the $35 million it just raised from Mithrill Capital…
Canada Revenue Agency Says No More Online Tax Filing Amid Heartbleed Concerns
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has temporarily halted online activity in light of security concerns stemming from a vulnerability…
Toronto’s BrandProject Creates, Invests in New Company, TUNED Brands Inc.
Toronto-based BrandProject, a “company creation studio” that builds, buys and makes seed stage investments in…
Fundica and FundRazr Team Up for the $10K “Fundees Awards”
Montreal-based Fundica, creators of the 10-city, 2014 Funding Roadshow that began today in Toronto, is teaming up with crowdfunding…
Report: Canadians Are Taking Kindly to Shopping Apps
According to new research from IDC Canada, there’s a shift going on in interactive shopping: 69 percent of Canadians…
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…
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…