Canada is the Best Place in the World for Business Tax: KPMG Report
Startups working out of the Great White North may be living the good life after all. Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver placed…
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The Funding Portal Wants to Make It Easier for HealthTech Companies to Get Money
The Funding Portal, a Toronto-based government grants consultancy service that also offers a searchable database of over 7,000…
Waterloo Startup Connects Internet of Things to the Live Sporting Experience
It’s a connected world, according to Waterloo startup StartLight Labs Inc. The company wants to bring hardware beacons,…
7,000 Saint Elizabeth Employees Now Using SoapBox, the Social Media Platform for Workers
SoapBox, the Toronto startup that a social media platform that allows its employees to suggest, discuss and vote on ideas,…
Why Do Fewer Women Have STEM Jobs? Online Panel Discussion Points to Childhood Education
Toronto-based venture capital firm Georgian Partners and ScribbleLive, a content engagement platform, held a live online chat…
An Online and Offline Marriage: SiteScout and Aislelabs Join Forces So Retailers Can Fully Target Customer Behaviour
Toronto’s real-time in-store marketing startup Aislelabs has partnered with Toronto-based self-serve programmatic ad…
OpenText CEO Calls Ontario the “Silicon Valley of the North”
Mark J. Barrenechea called Ontario the “Silicon Valley of the North” in a recent opinion piece published by the…
SalesForce Wants to Build Apps for Wearables; Launches Software Program
Wanting to “jumpstart” wearable app development, SalesForce has launched a new wearable technology developer program,…
Vancouver’s QuickMobile Named Fifth Fastest Growing Company in 2014 PROFIT 500
Vancouver startup QuickMobile was named as the number 5 company on Canadian Business and PROFITguide.com’s PROFIT 500…
New Watch on Kickstarter Uses NFC Tech to Automate with Smartphones
There’s yet another watch on Kickstarter developed by Canadian brainiacs, and this one is following along the minimalist…
At Vancouver’s From Now Conference, CBC’s Nora Young Urges Crowd to Evolve the Connected City into One of Communication
“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there…
Vancouver’s ShoeMe Made a Few Smart Hires Last Week
I’m usually not big on writing articles about people that you’ve never heard of being brought on as “C__”…
MaRS DD Fiasco: More Costly Surprises Surface, Bill Now Stands At Over $550 Million
In just weeks a taxpayer bill that was thought to be $371 million has inflated to $563 million, as the MaRS Discovery District’s…
These Two 14-Year-Olds Hacked an ATM in Winnipeg Using an Online Manual
Two 14-year-olds are making headlines today for hacking into an ATM machine in Winnipeg using a programming manual they found…
Startups and Academia: A Love Story
Two graduate students pursuing Masters of Science in Chemistry met at a workshop for entrepreneurs and decided to start a company…