Canadian tech’s essential #Budget2024 primer
Plus: Montréal startup community’s bid to save Notman House fails.
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Where #CDNtech companies stand on remote, hybrid, in-office work
Where job seekers choose to work is now a reflection of how they want to work.
Vidyard rolls out AI avatars after securing funding from EDC and existing backers
With AI Avatars, Vidyard aims to facilitate “personalized video communications at scale.”
S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Hootsuite acquisition fuels shift to intelligence
Plus: Amazon scraps Alexa Developer Rewards Program.
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.