Report: Canadians Are Taking Kindly to Shopping Apps
According to new research from IDC Canada, there’s a shift going on in interactive shopping: 69 percent of Canadians…
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A Four-Month Stint in NYC Helped This Canadian Startup Pivot (And Maybe Even Raise)
Things are going pretty well right now for Now In Store, the Montreal-founded startup that previously went through the FounderFuel…
What Happens When One Canadian Startup Acquires Another? A Cool New Product Is Born
500px Prime, a new kind of commercial marketplace for image licensing, celebrates its official launch this week. When Toronto…
Ex-TeamBuy Cofounder is Set to Go After Uber
If there’s a night in shining armour ready to come to the defence of the helpless taxi fleets, losing revenue that could…
Less Than Half of Canadian Small Businesses Have an Online Presence
Less than half (41 percent) of Canadian small businesses have an online presence, according to a new report issued this morning…
Canadian-Made Basis Sells to Intel for “Around $100 Million”
Intel has won a sweepstakes of sorts, agreeing to buy Canadian-born startup Basis for “around $100 million,” according…
Best Buy and Future Shop Pick Up Roam Mobility Products
Roam Mobility, the Vancouver-based startup that helps Canadians travelling to the US to not get killed by roaming rates, has…
Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
An interesting report from CBC Manitoba this month brought our attention to one New Jersey-based startup that has a ton of…
French Lens Giant Essilor Buys Vancouver’s ClearlyContacts for $430 Million
French optical-lens-manufacturing giant Essilor has agreed to purchase Vancouver’s Clearly Contacts Inc., the parent…
2 Canadian Teams Make the 500 Startups Cut: FameBit and VenueSpot
Itâs a startup holy grail. Getting accepted to 500 Startups is no easy feat. Itâs ranks right there with Y Combinator and…
A Canadian Success Story, Vancouver’s ShoeMe is Showing that Rural Canada is Waking up to eCommerce
It’s stories like Vancouver’s ShoeMe.ca that get me excited about startups in Canada, and more specifically, the…
Majority of Canadians Will Combine Online and In-Person Shopping This Holiday Season
While men everywhere in Canada like myself will likely leave their Christmas shopping to December 24 in a frantic rush to the…
Amazon Makes its Canadian Push Into Groceries and Auto
It was only a matter of time before the world’s largest online retailer pushed its grocery and auto plans north of the…
Canadian eCommerce Hits $18.9 Billion in 2012; Seniors Up Internet Use
The value of orders placed online by Canadians reached $18.9 billion in 2012 while Internet use increased across the board…
Best Buy to Carry Pebble Smartwatches
Canadian big box store Best Buy is now accepting Canadian pre-orders for the Pebble smartwatch. The news comes after a wildly…