Uber faces Toronto ban on city-issued smartphones
There are approximately 12,000 smartphones issued to Toronto municipal employees, and one city councillor wants the Uber app…
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Toronto-based Rithm melds music sharing and messaging
How do music labels make money anymore? No one buys anything; everything is free, with a short pre-roll ad. As confident…
YouTube FanFest happening in Toronto May 2nd
YouTube has more than 1 billion users with 300 hours of video uploaded every minute. To celebrate its user, Google and YouTube…
Casey McKinnon shares how FreshBooks regained its design groove at Product Hunt Toronto
To an outsider, FreshBooks looks like one of those startups that can do no wrong. In just the past year, the company secured…
Toronto-based Quickplay raises $57 million
Toronto-based Quickplay has secured $57-million in funding to further expand its growth in the OTT (over-the-top) video market.…
FreshBooks talks Lean UX at Product Hunt Toronto this week
Formed over a tweet, Product Hunt Toronto has quickly integrated itself into the city’s portfolio of worthwhile events.…
#DEC_TECH kicks off with a bang as Decentral Toronto goes beyond Bitcoin
Hosted in the MaRS Discovery District this week, DEC_TECH was the first financial technology event put on by the innovation…
Opera Software acquires Toronto-based SurfEasy
Norway’s Opera Software, a veteran in the online browser space and considerable mover of mobile advertising revenue,…
Amazon to expand Canadian presence with new Toronto office space
Last week, BuzzFeed announced plans to open an editorial office in Toronto. This week, it’s Amazon that has decided to…
LinkedIn acquires Toronto-based Careerify
Careerify announced today that it has been acquired by LinkedIn. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Founded in…
BuzzFeed to open Toronto newsroom
Popular top-10 list generator and cat-loving site BuzzFeed announced today its plans to open shop in Canada. At the annual…
Square acquires Toronto-based Kili Technology
Square, the popular mobile commerce platform developed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been live in Canada since October…
Blow stuff up: #HackTO and Toronto’s exploding maker movement
BetaKit has a soft spot for hardware. Our team-wide dream of building a robotic copy editor, or pizza delivering…
MaRS Study: Toronto startups with women, foreign founders less likely to raise funding
Last December, the MaRS Data Catalyst team published a study investigating the ethnic and gender diversity of Toronto startups.…
Toronto celebrates its first Coworking Day
Toronto celebrates its first Coworking Toronto Day today, officially acknowledging the new reality of how work gets done in…