MaRS partner UGO adds new features and iPhone support to its mobile wallet
UGO Wallet was announced in 2013, then officially launched in November last year, and dubbed as “Canada’s First Open…
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Adam Nanjee wants Canada to be a global FinTech leader
Last week, MaRS launched its new financial technologies cluster. The announcement, filled with partners across the financial,…
Ryerson and Rogers team up to launch The Next Big Idea in sports competition
Canada’s Year of Sport just got bigger. Ryerson and Rogers have embarked on a quest to find the “Next Big Idea in Sport”…
FounderDating Expands. Adding Entrepreneur Discussion Forum
The list of challenges every entrepreneur faces is never ending. It can seem like Mount Everest: daunting in scope, treacherous…
WitKit wants to disrupt the collaboration space with security
Last month, Vancouver-based startup WitKit announced a $5 million seed and the trial launch of its secure collaboration platform.…
Steve Wozniak says Montreal shouldn’t be like Silicon Valley, but focus on “what do you have that makes you special”
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs helped bring the computer to everyday people. Woz is largely credited to be the designer of the…
SKE Labs is building a smart world one jar at a time
The Internet of Things (IoT) is real. BI estimates that by 2019, the IoT market will be more than double the size of the smartphone,…
MaRS Launches FinTech cluster to tackle Financial Tech innovation
Cryptocurrencies, blockchain, alternative lending, and the tech payments wars have the financial services industry buzzing…
Neptune’s new wearable wants you to quit your smartphone addiction cold turkey
If wearable technology is going to succeed, it will need visionaries who think outside the box and aren’t afraid to make…
Rod Regier explains how Kitchener emerged on the tech map
How does a city recover from its largest tenant hitting bad times? In the case of Kitchener-Waterloo it started long before…
Ansik knows that sales are sexier than sector
Ansik is fighting the perception that they have a perception problem. The Velocity Foundry company, which produces ShockLock,…
The Internet of Things is invisible
If you’ve been reading CIO.com, or Forbes, you might be under the impression that the Internet of Things is some sort of…
From laggard to leader through tech: commercial real estate and Colliers
When it comes to being a technology leader, the commercial real estate industry is rarely in the conversation. Despite its…
Nymi promotes enterprise shift in new blog post
Last week BetaKit broke news that Toronto-based wearable startup Nymi made a significant change to its leadership team, with…
Wattpad says over 100 million stories have been shared on its platform, 45 million registered users
Toronto-based Wattpad, the company who created a community of readers and writers to share books for free, was last pegged…