Northern Uprising: eCommerce in Canada to Hit $34 Billion by 2016
Canadian ecommerce is set to hit $34 billion by 2016, according to a new infographic by Nextopia, a Toronto-based startup that…
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Why Startups Should Acqui-Fire Government Policies: Part One
Startups are often the subject of acquihires: one company buys another for their talent. The trend of acquihires speaks volumes,…
Startup Culture Needs a New Ethos: Stop Faking and Start ‘Being’
Editor’s note: The Canadian startup community’s (and beyond) greatest attribute is its greatest fault: its positivity.…
Ahead of Its IPO Later This Month, Toronto’s Acuity Ads Makes Two Big Hires
Last month a few media outlets broke the story that Acuity Ads would be going public on the TSXV, via a $5.75 million private…
Study Finds that Cost and Know-How Are Small Businesses’ Biggest Obstacles to Digital Prominence
A new MasterCard study that tabled responses from small business owners in four countries (including Canada) says that small…
General Fusion Wants to Deliver the Promise of Clean Energy
When we talk tech moonshots, itâs likely Google X , or maybe Elon Muskâs Hyperloop will jump to mind. But tucked away…
Montreal Entrepreneur Lands in CBC’s The National for “SuperHydrophobic” Solution
Ever since it was reported last month that Nissan developed what’s being labelled as the “self-cleaning car”,…
SalesForce CEO Doesn’t Use His Own Tool to Post Tweet, Ryan Holmes Trolls Him
Ryan Holmes has made it clear that he doesn’t approve of SalesForce’s new social sharing tool that eerily resembles…
Startup Canada Names Its Startup Awards Winners
Startup Canada has named its “mover and shakers” of Canada’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, in the form of its…
Jack Dorsey’s Square to Sell Its Readers at Shoppers Drug Marts
Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and his mobile payment processing startup Square are bringing its credit card readers to 440…
Visual Search Platform Slyce to Go Public
Calgary and Toronto-based startup Slyce, the company that recently raised nearly $11 million in venture capital, is going…
Andrew Reid’s Vision Critical: Not Your Dad’s Idea of Market Research
Andrew Reid is self-admittedly the bad kid who did everything wrong. His mom saw him on the path to jail. She didnât see…
Motherly Influence: Ideon Media Acquires Pair of Mom Blogs, Forms “The SavvyMom Group”
There’s a lot of new and soon-to-be moms out there who’s eyeballs are consistently glued to “mom blogs”. Clearly…
BetaKit at #SXSW: “You’re a Small Fish in a Big Pond, But There’s Enough Water for Everybody”
Jonathan Stoikovitch knew that SXSW 2014 Interactive Festival would be crowded with small startups clamouring for attention,…
Extreme Startups announces its Fifth Cohort includes Dubb, Fora, Hurrier, Preo and Uplette
Toronto’s Extreme Startups announced five new companies to enter their Spring 2014 Cohort (Cohort 5). According to managing…