Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield Joins University of Waterloo As Professor
The first Canadian to walk in space is putting on the teacher’s cap. The University of Waterloo today announced the…
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WB Games Montreal Looks to Hire 100 After $1.5 Million in Quebec Funding
WB Games received a bunch of money from the province of Quebec and it’s ready to make it rain…on 100 new employees…
GrowLabs Team Retsly Lends Its Hand to Real Estate Hackathon in San Francisco
New GrowLab accelerator team Retsly is “powering” a two-day competition in San Francisco for software developers…
Disruptive Publishers Pioneered an Industry, And Now They Look to Take Mobile
Most gamers are familiar with the concept of the avatar, or the digital, customizable and personalized part of an online gaming…
Nominations Are Open for The Small Business BC Awards
The Small Business BC Awards is making a call to entrepreneurs to nominate who should win one of nine awards based on contributions…
MasterCard’s NXT Developer Challenge Is Underway in Toronto
The MasterCard NXT Developer Challenge is lively and underway at MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. Scores of laptop wielding…
Memelabs Changes Name to Brightkit, Raises Seed Round
Vancouver-based Brightkit has launched today, announcing that it raised a seed round led by angel investors Geoff Entress…
Intel Capital Makes Another Investment in Canadian Wearable Tech With Recon Instruments
Update: Recon Instruments has confirmed that “The investment from Intel is an extension of our A round. The value is…
Communitech Joins Google Tech Hub Network
Everything seems to be going right for Kitchener-Waterloo’s startup community these days. Last week Twitter and Square…
GrowLab Announces Partnered Research Project with Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Vancouver-based startup accelerator GrowLab has announced a partnered research project with Emily Carr University of Art +…
Canadian Student Wins Google Science Fair 2013
In late June we reported on a 15-year-old Vancouver student who was named a finalist in the Google Science Fair 2013 for her “Hollow…
Call to All Entrepreneurs: Less Than One Month Left to Apply to FounderFuel
Montreal-based startup accelerator program FounderFuel is telling startups they have less than one month before the submission…
Homejoy Launches in Second Canadian City After Success at Home
San Francisco-based Homejoy has launched in it’s second Canadian city after Toronto, earlier this week, opening its doors…
PwC Vision to Reality Short List: The BetaKit Cheat Sheet
PwC’s Vision to Reality awards is back for their 10th year and earlier this week PwC announced their short list of twenty…
Is Big Data A ‘Big Hype’ Or a Really Big Deal?
According to Gartner’s 2013 hype cycle for emerging technologies, big data resides almost at the summit of “the peak of…