CanCon Podcast Episode 2: Is Winter Coming for Canadian tech?
“Unicorns are bleeding and Winter is Coming.” That’s what one person told me after a busy week in Canadian…
layoffs
VarageSale lays off 30 staff, including VPs of Engineering, Product
Multiple sources have reached out to BetaKit confirming that VarageSale today laid off 30 staff, on the company’s fourth…
11 Canadian tech companies to watch in 2016
January is always an exciting time for entrepreneurs. The start of a new year kicks the drive and optimism in us into high…
#HTML500 by the numbers, words, pictures
They came, they sat, and they coded. Vancouver hosted its second #HTML500, which happens to be stop number one of a four city…
Hopper Lays Off Several Montreal Staff After Finally Launching
It’s been a long road for Hopper, the (now) Boston-based startup that was founded in Montreal over six years ago, building…
Are Kik and BlackBerry Smiling After Facebook’s WhatsApp Deal?
According to the Waterloo Region Record, Facebook’s recent $19 billion deal to acquire WhatsApp has created a favourable…
Waterloo’s Cream.HR to Help Jobless Former BlackBerry Workers
There’s a large number of jobless tech workers in the Waterloo area after the recent BlackBerry layoffs, and local startup…
Is Canada Experiencing A Renaissance for Hardware Startups?
Following the aftermath of BlackBerry’s agreement to a tentative offer from FairFax Financial Holdings (and the inevitable…
Pixar’s Vancouver Branch Shut Down By Disney, 100 Lose Jobs
Following in Electronic Arts’ footsteps from last winters disastrous 300-person layoffs, Pixar Canada has shuttered it’s…