layoffs

Shop.ca lays off 30 employees in advance of potential sale

Earlier this week, BetaKit broke the news that Toronto-based e-commerce startup Shop.ca had filed for creditor protection from…

This week’s CanCon podcast is all about mistakes, or at least, how tech companies move forward once they make one. Apple’s…

Earlier this week, BetaKit broke the news of significant layoffs at Toronto-based startup Joist. Speaking with CEO Justin Kathan…

Toronto-based Joist is relocating to San Francisco. While approximately 30 employees have or will soon be making the move to…

Raptors fans getting hype for the eastern conference finals are in luck — Vancouver-based BroadbandTV, in partnership with…

Pebble is laying off 25 percent of its total staff this week (about 40 employees). CEO Eric Migicovsky confirmed the…

The Snap by Groupon platform, which allows users to get cash back on groceries, is undergoing major changes — but the Canadian…

“Unicorns are bleeding and Winter is Coming.” That’s what one person told me after a busy week in Canadian…

Multiple sources have reached out to BetaKit confirming that VarageSale today laid off 30 staff, on the company’s fourth…

January is always an exciting time for entrepreneurs. The start of a new year kicks the drive and optimism in us into high…

They came, they sat, and they coded. Vancouver hosted its second #HTML500, which happens to be stop number one of a four city…

It’s been a long road for Hopper, the (now) Boston-based startup that was founded in Montreal over six years ago, building…

According to the Waterloo Region Record, Facebook’s recent $19 billion deal to acquire WhatsApp has created a favourable…

There’s a large number of jobless tech workers in the Waterloo area after the recent BlackBerry layoffs, and local startup…

Following the aftermath of BlackBerry’s agreement to a tentative offer from FairFax Financial Holdings (and the inevitable…