CODE Hackathon sees 900 participants create 110 apps, declares itself the ‘Largest Competitive Hackathon in Canada’
CODE, the Canadian Open Data Experience, took place between February 28th to March 2nd and saw over 900 developers compete…
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Coastal.com Offering Several Hundreds of Frames For Google Glass Later This Year
Google Glass is about to get a whole lot more stylish as Coastal.com, best known as ClearlyContacts.ca, has announced that…
BufferBox service is winding down and will stop accepting packages on March 31st
BufferBox, the Canadian start-up that was founded by three engineering grads (Jay Shah, Aditya Bali and Mike McCauley) from…
Downtown Toronto’s The Lab Is Making Coding Cool
Situated smack dab in the middle of the fashion district in Toronto above an Urban Outfitters is The Lab. Recently launched…
Well.ca suffers security breach, customer credit cards and addresses stolen
Toronto- and Guelph-based Well.ca, an online portal for health goods, groceries and beauty products, has suffered a security…
Biometric Shirt Hexoskin Is Helping Olympic Athletes Win Gold at Sochi
Wearable devices may be helping the everyday Joe count steps to shed some pounds but for Olympic athletes they are tools which…
FounderDating Sheds Light on New ‘Adviser Hook-up’
Ideas: everyone has a few. Going from an idea, to startup, to a real revenue-producing business is what separates dreamers…
Government of Canada will continue “to address emerging risks, including virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin”
Bitcoin, the cryptography digital currency, has popped up on Canadian soil over the past number of months. Bitcoin ATMs, or…
HootSuite forced to look outside Canada for talent, says it’s ‘difficult to compete’ with Silicon Valley companies
The search for great talent is ongoing. For Vancouver-based HootSuite, it’s been a trek. After successfully raising a…
Keep the ‘Startup City’ alive: City of Kitchener proposes ‘Landing Pad Grant’ for property owners to renovate
The Waterloo region has raised some of the brightest startups that Canada has ever seen. Pebble, BufferBox and Thalmic Labs…
Montreal’s PixMob lit up Super Bowl XLVIII
Now that the winner of Super Bowl XLVIII has been crowned (congratulations Seattle) it’s time to focus on the magical…
Wearable Tech Companies Start To Use the F Word
Yesterday, Fitbit officially announced their partnership with luxury fashion designer Tory Burch. The designer will be working…
Brick & Mobile: Rogers Mobile Shopper changing the in-store shopping experience
Mobile devices are redefining how we shop. For many traditional brick & mortar retailers, mobile hasn’t always been a…
Toronto’s Bionym Announces The First Wearable Bitcoin Wallet
Bitcoin will be getting a whole lot easier and more secure to use later this year. Bionym announced today that the first application…
Pebble AppStore Marks Shift in Wearable Tech
Pebble officially launched their appstore today for iOS users with Android to follow. The store resides within an update to…