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…
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Over 80 glorious pictures from the #HTML500 Learn-to-Code Event
Vancouver was home to a spectacular event this past weekend. The #HTML500 learn-to-code event hosted 500+ eager coders and…
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…
Beyond the buzzword: gamification is the future of culture and business
A new program called ‘Game Change’ is applying the mechanics of gaming as a business model for recognizing and…
2 Canadian Teams Make the 500 Startups Cut: FameBit and VenueSpot
It’s a startup holy grail. Getting accepted to 500 Startups is no easy feat. It’s ranks right there with Y Combinator and…
CIRA launches new $1 million Community Investment Program, hopes to “make the Internet better for all Canadians”
The internet is a busy place. According to the CRTC’s (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) latest…
Gener8 takes a 48% interest in Vancouver-based Reelhouse Media, plans to add ‘premium’ revenue models
Vancouver’s Gener8, a company that specializes in converting 2D movies into 3D experiences, has announced that they’ve…
Bitcoin Needs Legal Framework If It’s to Prosper: Montreal Economic Institute
If Bitcoin is to prosper and achieve widespread use, an appropriate legal and regulatory framework needs to be adopted to mitigate…
Finalists are named for the Small Business BC Awards
A total of 417 businesses from 55 cities across British Columbia were nominated this year for the 11th Annual Small Business…
Vancouver’s UrtheCast Installs Space Station Cameras in Prep To Stream the World
Yesterday marked another giant step for mankind as two imaging cameras were successfully installed on the Russian side of…
NIMJA, winner of the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge, launches its mobile point of sale app
At the MasterCard N>XT Developer Challenge in September it was The Coyotes, a team of 5 high-schoolers, that took home the…
Canadian “Hackathon on Wheels” Prepares for North American StartupBus Competition
You and a team of strangers on a bus for seventy-two hours on the way from Toronto to SXSW to launch a startup. This is the…
Guardly announces $1.45 million in new funding , says they’ll raise the bar for Personal Safety & Security
Big brother is headline grabbing these days. The mass surveillance state is a serious concern. Our social narrative now reads,…
Montreal’s Fundica Beefs Up Its Funding Road Show for Second Year
Fundica is bringing the Funding Road Show back, nearly doubling the amount of cities on this year’s tour. The Montreal-based…
DX3 2014 Headliner Eric Harris of BuzzFeed: Creating Content is Part Art, Part Science
When one’s blog gets over 130 million unique visitors a month and over half of those are coming from mobile, they know…