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By Joseph Czikk September 24, 2013

11 Months after Launch, Montreal’s 5by Gets Acquired by StumbleUpon

Silicon Valley-based StumbleUpon has acquired Montreal-based video curation startup 5by for an undisclosed sum today. The…

By Joseph Czikk September 24, 2013

No, you’re not greasing up your hair to take out your date in your old man’s ’56 Chevy Belair. This is 2013,…

By Joseph Czikk September 23, 2013

Waterloo-based startup RideNerd has “hit the road” this week, launching with a mission to help car consumers find the most…

By Joseph Czikk September 23, 2013

Toronto-based startup Crowdbabble has launched its Instagram Analytics product today, which joins a list of over 30 different…

By Joseph Czikk September 23, 2013

Thursday marked MaRS Discovery District’s launch of its new Social Venture Connection (SVX), an online impact investing…

By Ian Hardy September 21, 2013

The organizers of the upcoming movie called ‘Day Job’ have been kind enough to give us a few tickets to giveaway…

By Joseph Czikk September 20, 2013

It’s a great day for four Canadian venture capital funds. Today, Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, announced a $50…

By John Gray September 20, 2013

Utility companies lose $202 billion every year due to theft and technical inefficiencies that plague the worldwide electrical…

By Jimmy MacKinley September 20, 2013

The year was 1994. President Clinton delivered his first state of the union address and Ace of Base was at the top of the charts…

By Tom Emrich September 20, 2013

PwC’s Vision to Reality awards is back for their 10th year and earlier this week PwC announced their short list of twenty…

By Joseph Czikk September 19, 2013

Amid an exciting day at Accelerate T.O that will include a keynote delivery by Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, two…

By Tom Emrich September 19, 2013

Back in August, BetaKit wrote about Alertly, a Toronto-based startup set to disrupt the consumer security space by creating…

By John Gray September 19, 2013

According to Gartner’s 2013 hype cycle for emerging technologies, big data resides almost at the summit of “the peak of…

By Joseph Czikk September 18, 2013

Just a few weeks ago the ongoing Canadian sports app battleground continued to heat up, when theScore announced a major update…

By Joseph Czikk September 18, 2013

Invoke Labs today announced that myBestHelper will be the newest company in residence at its Vancouver headquarters. myBestHelper…