R|T: The Retail Times – Shop Pay vs. ‘Buy with Prime’ begins
Plus: TikTok Parent ByteDance’s E-Commerce Volume Surged in 2022.
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F|T: The FinTech Times – Coinsquare breaks up with CoinSmart, courts WonderFi?
Plus: Nuvei enters $1.7 billion CAD deal to acquire Paya.
Canadian startup news of the week (1/15/23)
Plus: Coinsquare breaks up with CoinSmart, courts WonderFi?
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify targets enterprise retail with new commerce stack
Plus: Amazon plans more layoffs.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Salesforce latest Big Tech company to make cuts in Canada
Plus: ApplyBoard swaps CEOs.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Watson Health up for sale…again
Plus: Amazon’s One Medical deal moves forward.
A|I: The AI Times – ChatGPT creator OpenAI in talks to raise at $29 billion valuation
Plus: AI regulation is coming to Canada.
F|T: The FinTech Times – TikTok plots push into payments
Plus: Vancouver NFT startup acquired by Tokens.com
Canadian startup news of the week (1/8/23)
Plus: BetaKit is hiring.
R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify abandons The Well
Plus: Saas-based hotel management platform raises $185 million.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – MasterControl becomes unicorn after $150 million Series A
Plus: Bezos and Gates on the hunt for brain implant breakthrough.
A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI projects $1 billion in revenue in two years
Plus: Cohere hires YouTube CFO as president.
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – John Carmack is leaving Meta
Plus: Former Google ad chief’s ad-free search engine launches in Canada.
F|T: The FinTech Times – The inevitable arrest of SBF
Plus: Nesto raises $80 million series C.
Canadian startup news of the week (12/18/22)
Plus: Kim Furlong talks VCCI & what comes next for Canadian venture.