Toronto Man Dreams Up App, Uses Tax Return Money to Get it Built
Every once in a while we receive story pitches so bizarre that they end up being great stories. We just received a pretty great…
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Montreal’s GreenCopper To Produce App for Huge Bud Light EDM Festival
The organizers of 2014 Bud Light Digital Dreams Festival have partnered with a few technology systems innovators located in Canada to create a “one-stop technology…
UofT’s Mobile App Lab Demo Night Crowns Its Winner in XTouch App
A mobile app that can allow any flat surface to act in a tap-sensitive manner has won the $1,000 University of Toronto 2014 Mobile…
Kitfox Games Doesn’t Want Its Titles to be Pushovers
Montreal-based indie gaming studio Kitfox Games doesn’t want its titles to be easy to play. The 10-month-old firm started out in June 2013, born…
Waterloo’s Apartmint Is an All-In-One Solution for Landlords and Renters
“I think there’s a lot of problems in this industry in general and I haven’t seen something come forward and try and solve it.”…
Uniiverse Is Betting on Mobile in 2014, Releases Android App
Five months after it launched its iOS app, Toronto-based startup Uniiverse has launched its Android app today, according to CEO Craig Follett. Uniiverse is the…
Thirty Million Gruesome Images Later, Toronto’s Figure 1 Expands to Android and Web
In early December we wrote about Figure 1, a Toronto-based photo-sharing app on iOS for medical professionals. Then the company had raised $2 million…
London’s Backpackr Looks to Take an Open Market in Traveller Meet-Ups
Having just returned from a short backpacking trip throughout Cuba I know the despairs of solo travellers well. While I’m a firm believer in…
Toronto’s Whirlscape scores $500,000 in funding from Y Combinator, BDC and others for its Minuum virtual keyboard
Toronto-based Whirlscape, creators of the one-dimensional Minuum virtual keyboard, have announced that they’ve successfully received $500,000 funding from Y Combinator, FundersClub, BDC Venture Capital…
Voting now open “Doodle 4 Google” Challenge
Google Canada has vetted thousands of doodles and announced that public voting is now open for their Doodle 4 Google challenge. There are 25…
It’s Official: Canadians Love Their Weather Apps
Nearly half of 19,000 surveyed Canadians say they regularly check their weather app, according to a new study from Ipsos. The Canadian Press reported…
Rob Ford’s Antics Pushes Back Planned Update for Hilarious App Game “Stay Mayor!”
It was only a matter of time before some clever developers came out with a new mobile game that mimics the real life charades…
The App Labb Built Itself from the Ground Up
The App Labb founder Kundan Joshi started his Toronto-based app development firm while he was still finishing his software engineering degree. Then the company…