S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hootsuite acquisition fuels shift to intelligence
Plus: Amazon scraps Alexa Developer Rewards Program.
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As tech talent crunch persists, Indeed’s Iain Hamilton on how companies can fill seats faster
With talent in the driver’s seat, finding the right candidates has become a tougher hunt.
Why Pinterest is after Canada’s AI talent
Plus: What’s going on at CleanBC?
Avidbots launches Kas, a smaller cleaning robot targeting new markets
Avidbots has slimmed down for hot bot summer.
Hootsuite to acquire social media analytics company Talkwalker
Hootsuite shifting from social media management to intelligence.
The stapler problem in #CDNtech procurement
Plus: Meet BetaKit’s new CEO.
H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ontario budget allocates funding to healthtech procurement
Plus: Neuralink is now accepting Canadian patients.
Lightspeed reduces staff by 10 percent in suite of cost-cutting steps following Dax Dasilva’s return
Layoffs part of company’s reorganization strategy following a disappointing response to Q3 earnings.
F|T: The FinTech Times – Sam Bankman-Fried gets 25 years
Plus: Mogo backs Kaos in WonderFi boardroom battle.
Why Dax Dasilva thinks about taking Lightspeed private
Plus: Notman House is for sale. A startup-led effort wants to buy it back.
WonderFi responds as shareholders Kaos Capital, Mogo push for board overhaul
Kaos and Mogo want board changes. WonderFi claims Mogo wants control without paying a premium.
Tofu nets $1.2 million to fast-track hiring for tech startups
Company’s backers include Night Capital, Garage Capital, Wayfinder Ventures, Ritual Capital.
John Ruffolo has advice for Canada’s pension funds
Plus: CDPQ quietly shutters $250-million D&I fund.
With $45-million CAD Series B, PocketHealth gears up to continue North American expansion, AI push
Startup adds Round13, Deloitte, Samsung to fuel efforts to help patients understand their medical images.
Top Hat’s Maggie Leen appointed CEO two months after Joe Rohrlich’s quiet departure
EdTech firm has also tapped Larry Indovina for the new role of COO.