Recon Instruments is on a Roll with New Funding from Motorola Solutions
“It’s so tough to make a prototype in this space. You need money.” Said Recon Instruments co-founder and CEO Dan Eisenhardt.…
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UofT’s Mobile App Lab Demo Night Crowns Its Winner in XTouch App
A mobile app that can allow any flat surface to act in a tap-sensitive manner has won the $1,000 University of Toronto 2014…
The City of Toronto Is Getting Glass Hacked This Weekend
Toronto is getting its “Glass on” this weekend as it hosts the second ever Google Glass Hackathon in Canada. The hack…
Check Out Branham Group’s Top 25 Canadian Up-And-Coming ICT Startups
The Branham Group today has released its 2014 list of the top 25 Canadian up-and-coming ICT companies. Most of them fall under…
Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion to Kick Off Microsoft-Sponsored YouthSpark Live Event
“Hurricane Hazel,” Mississauga’s 93-year-old mayor, will officially kickoff the YouthSpark Live event at…
British Columbia is Becoming the Planet’s Smartest Coast
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) has announced a collaboration with IBM to create the “smartest coast on the planet”. A three-year,…
BlackBerry To Reward Student App Developers with New Award at Canada-Wide Science Fair
BlackBerry is about to help out a handful of student app developers in a big way. Today the embattled Canadian smartphone maker…
Dragons’ Den Star to Launch $200M Fund in Waterloo
New Dragons’ Den star Michael Wekerle is launching a $200 million investment fund in Waterloo, to be aimed at startups…
Those 900 SIN Numbers Stolen From the CRA? Executed by a 19-Year-Old in London
According to the Canadian Press, police have charged a 19-year-old man from London, On, in connection with the loss of taxpayer…
Vancouver’s Pulse Energy Announces Multi-Million Dollar Deal With British Gas
Vancouver’s Pulse Energy has secured a multi-million-dollar, three-year contract with British Gas, the United Kingdom’s…
New Invoke Labs Startup Cleanify Joins the Home-Cleaning Race
Vancouver’s incubator Invoke Labs has welcomed a new startup to the rolling program in Cleanify. Cleanify is a service…
New York’s Handybook, the “Uber for Household Services” Expands to Toronto
Yesterday was a big day for Handybook, the New York-based startup backed with $15.7 million in venture capital. The startup…
Alumnus Donates $150K To Let U of Windsor Students Make Investments
John Simpson, the managing director for Ridgeview Capital Asset Management, has donated $150,000 to the University of Windsor’s…
Ontario Lets Citizens Vote on Access to Open Data Sets
The government of Ontario is letting its citizens vote on a master list of 1,000 data sets they collect over which ones should…
Waterloo Man Creates Fake PR Agency In Ploy to Get Hired
Uniqueness seems to sell. We like what we aren’t and we want to surround ourselves with people who go against the status…