‘Next generation’ water park and event complex with retractable roof planned to open in the Toronto Area in 2016
Toronto might have a new destination to take the family in 2016. Toronto-based marblemedia has a dream to open a massive 100,000…
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New Study Finds Half of Canadian Startups Run by Part-Timers
A new Intuit study has found that more than half (53 percent) of all new startups in Canada are run by part-time entrepreneurs.…
Hootsuite, Shopify, BuildDirect and Others To Go Public?
A new Bloomberg report that quote’s OMERS Ventures’ John Ruffalo is saying that several Canadian technology companies…
BroadbandTV is Leading the Seismic Shift in our Viewing Habits
It’s long odds that many university undergrad papers transform into a winning business. After attending CES in 2002 and seeing…
Freelancer.com opens Vancouver Engineering Lab, plans to immediately hire 20 employees
Australian freelance services marketplace Freelancer.com announced today that they’ve expanded their Canadian presence…
Extreme Startups announces its Fifth Cohort includes Dubb, Fora, Hurrier, Preo and Uplette
Toronto’s Extreme Startups announced five new companies to enter their Spring 2014 Cohort (Cohort 5). According to managing…
EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year Program Officially Kicks Off Today
Every year Ernst & Young (EY) professional services firm throw a Canada-wide contest aimed at honouring the nation’s…
Life Sciences Startups Have Until March 5 to Apply for Silicon Valley Program
The Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco is accepting applications from Canadian life sciences companies for the Canadian…
Federal Government’s #CODE2014 is Officially Underway
The first national Open Data hackathon in Canada, The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) is officially underway in Toronto…
Audicus Undercuts Hearing Aid Costs by As Much As 80%, Making Many Canadians Happy
An interesting report from CBC Manitoba this month brought our attention to one New Jersey-based startup that has a ton of…
Check Out This BDC Infographic on “The Real Impact of Venture Capital”
The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has released an infographic on the morning that the CVCA released its 2013 overview…
VC Investment in Canada Jumps by Nearly a Third in 2013 (452 deals with an average size of $4.3 million)
Last year saw 31 percent more venture capital investment in Canada compared to 2012, up to $2 billion from $1.5 billion. In…
WordPress Now Lets Users Sell Stuff, Partners with Shopify and Shoplocket
WordPress, the most popular and fastest growing publishing platform on the web, announced yesterday that it had struck deals…
Grade 12 Toronto Student Wins Doodle 4 Google Contest
A 17-year-old Toronto student named Cindy Tang has won the first Doodle 4 Google contest for Canada. Her drawing is of a girl…
2014 CRC Robotics Competition Showcases Student Innovation Today and Tomorrow
The 2014 CRC Robotics Competition at Vanier College in Montreal has already been underway for a day now. The competition’s…