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Life of a Porn ‘Star’: How This Montrealer Helped Build Adult Mobile, Part One

Joseph Czikk July 4, 2014

Brandon Reti helped build the mobile division of one of the largest and most successful adult entertainment companies in the…

Indiegogo Taps Canada As First Dance Partner in Mobile App Deployment

Joseph Czikk July 4, 2014

Indiegogo, the San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform, has opened its new app up to Canadians users first. The move comes…

Hacked: Festival Announces Speakers

Joseph Czikk July 4, 2014

Vancouver’s inaugrual Hacked: Festival has announced the first round of programming for its event August 11 –…

Incoming Accelerator Centre CEO Calls Waterloo “The Best Place in the World for Startups”

Joseph Czikk July 3, 2014

Dr. Paul Salvini seemed more of a selfless fan of the Kitchener-Waterloo startup region in general than the program he’s…

Ubisoft to Invest Heavily in Quebec City for Future Assassin’s Creed, Will Hire 100 More

Joseph Czikk July 3, 2014

Ubisoft will invest $4 million of a previously announced $28 million investment in a new workspace at 585 Boulevard Charest…

Vancouver’s Tinkerine Wants to Bring “3D Printing Education” to Every School in North America

Joseph Czikk July 3, 2014

Some people really love 3D printing, and we can call the folks at Vancouver startup Tinkerine among this group. Tinkerine today…

Bnotions Spinoff Company Wins Facebook Innovation Award for Mobile Apps

Joseph Czikk July 3, 2014

A Canadian company has struck gold with one of Silicon Valley’s finest. Facebook has a twice-yearly competition where…

Vancouver’s AR Builder Helps Brands Launch Augmented Reality Apps

BetaKit July 3, 2014

AR Builder, a startup out of Vancouver that offers brands the chance the build their own augmented reality apps, has launched its…

For CodeCamp 2014 Organizers, Every Kid Deserves to Learn to Code

Joseph Czikk July 3, 2014

CodeCamp 2014 is coming up at the end of this month in Vancouver, and it promises kids and teens up to grade 12 the chance…

Kitchener Startup ConcertNinja “Overturns” Federal Tour Tax for Musicians

Joseph Czikk July 2, 2014

Kitchener startup ConcertNinja says it helped overturn a federal law requiring foreign musicians to pay a hefty $450 “tour…

Canadians Break Record for Most Selfies in an Hour

Joseph Czikk July 2, 2014

In your over-branded news story of the day, Canadians have broken the record for the most selfies in one hour. Skittles, as…

Getting By With a Little Help from MyBestHelper

John Gray July 2, 2014

“Necessity… the mother of invention.” – Plato Beyond death and taxes the world holds few absolute truths. Yet,…

Roam Mobility To Offer 4G LTE Service for Canadians Travelling to the USA

Joseph Czikk July 2, 2014

While Canada’s big three networks have by now came up with their own offerings for clients frequently crossing the…

Toronto’s YEDI Incubator to Graduate Second Cohort on Friday

Joseph Czikk July 2, 2014

After the York Entrepreneurship Development Institute (YEDI) incubated its first cohort of startups, those companies ended…

Google Buys Music Streaming Service Songza

Tom Emrich July 2, 2014

Yesterday Songza officially announced that they were now part of the Google team after weeks of rumors of the potential acquisition.…

“The problem is me”: Bunz owner brings in Gen Z pranksters to save dying platform

Sovereignty is now a feature, and Canadian founders are shipping it for free

Kepler Communications’ space-based data centres come online

Helcim raises $53 million amid shakeup in Canadian payments

Canada’s answer to tariffs isn’t counter-tariffs: it’s capital

Former Nvidia lab leader Sanja Fidler launches Veeda AI to tackle world models

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Life of a Porn ‘Star’: How This Montrealer Helped Build Adult Mobile, Part One

Indiegogo Taps Canada As First Dance Partner in Mobile App Deployment

Hacked: Festival Announces Speakers

Incoming Accelerator Centre CEO Calls Waterloo “The Best Place in the World for Startups”

Ubisoft to Invest Heavily in Quebec City for Future Assassin’s Creed, Will Hire 100 More

Vancouver’s Tinkerine Wants to Bring “3D Printing Education” to Every School in North America

Bnotions Spinoff Company Wins Facebook Innovation Award for Mobile Apps

Vancouver’s AR Builder Helps Brands Launch Augmented Reality Apps

For CodeCamp 2014 Organizers, Every Kid Deserves to Learn to Code

Kitchener Startup ConcertNinja “Overturns” Federal Tour Tax for Musicians

Canadians Break Record for Most Selfies in an Hour

Getting By With a Little Help from MyBestHelper

Roam Mobility To Offer 4G LTE Service for Canadians Travelling to the USA

Toronto’s YEDI Incubator to Graduate Second Cohort on Friday

Google Buys Music Streaming Service Songza

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