Steve Wozniak says Montreal shouldn’t be like Silicon Valley, but focus on “what do you have that makes you special”
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs helped bring the computer to everyday people. Woz is largely credited to be the designer of the…
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Apple hosting workshops for Hour of Code initiative at retail stores
Apple stores in Canada and around the world will host a free one-hour coding workshop in support of the “Hour of Code”…
Offline Magazine Seeks to Pay Writers a Fair Buck
After working at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters for three years, Tom Smith got the entrepreneurial itch. Armed with a…
Vancouver’s Hootsuite Lands Spot on Mashable’s “Winners of Tech 2013”
It’s been going so well for Vancouver-based startup Hootsuite that Mashable has proclaimed that the social media dashboard…
Toronto Startup Hooks Up with Youth Group to Create Virtual Citizen Program
Toronto-based startup Locolo is partnering up with the Coalition of Youth Councils (CYC) to create the Virtual Citizen Program…
Stuck in Public and You Gotta “Go”? Check Out this New Canadian App
George Costanza would love this app. Earlier this week Vancouver and California-based startup Flushd launched on iOS, an app…
After seeing the ‘Jobs’ movie, Are Tech Giants Making A Dent In The Universe Anymore?
After watching the history of Apple’s birth, rise, fall and subsequent rise again at the Jobs movie screening this week I…
Apple acquires Toronto-based Locationary, will bring big data to their mapping service
After deciding to drop Google Maps as their mapping service on iOS devices, Apple’s first foray into Maps was a definitive…
Moment.me Launches Android App, Aggregates Digital Content Into ‘Moments’
With plenty of apps and tools out there to help users share what they’re up to via text, photos, or videos, Moment.me is…
Kno Launches Advance to Help Publishers Convert Print Textbooks to Ebooks
Today Santa Clara, CA-based Kno announced the launch of Advance, a DIY platform for textbook publishers that allows them to…
Livrada Adds $1M, Launches Platform for Authors to Sell Ebook Gift Cards
Los Angeles-based Livrada, the startup that lets users redeem a specific ebook title from a gift card, announced today that…
fruux Adds Team Collaboration Features, Wants to Be the ‘iCloud for Teams’
BetaKit last covered German startup fruux when it added shared calendars for its cloud-syncing platform, which originally gave…
‘Kindle Meets GoodReads’ E-reading Startup Readmill Launches iPhone App
Today Berlin-based Readmill, a digital reading platform, announced the launch of its iPhone app to complement its existing…
AppGratis Adds $13.5M for Free Daily App Tool, Which Led to 100M 2012 Installs
Today Paris-based AppGratis, an app discovery and daily deal platform, announced a $13.5 million series A funding round led…
With 5M Downloads, Contact Syncing App Sync.Me Adds $4M To Develop for Android
What if a contact list was more than mere names, phone numbers, and email addresses, and instead helped pull in social networking…