First Ever Canadian Google Glass Hackathon Is This Weekend
Glass isn’t officially available in Canada yet, but some of the lucky few who have been able to get their hands on a pair…
Vancouver-based OneGigabit promises to bring you 60x faster internet speeds
If you’re looking for fast internet speeds you best be moving to Vancouver. Start-up OneGigabit, who’s backed by…
Small Alberta town gets Canada’s first 1Gbps fibre network…by building it themselves
Small Alberta town, Olds, has taken internet performance into its own hands by building Canada’s first 1Gbps fibre network.…
15-year old Vancouver resident builds a flashlight that “runs solely on the heat of the human hand,” becomes a finalist in Google’s Science Fair
Google’s Global Science Fair has been narrowed down to 15 finalists and Vancouver’s Ann Makosinski, aged 15, has…
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…
Former Shopkick Employees Launch Shopular, a Passbook-Style Ambient Coupon App
Today Palo Alto-based Shopular, a location-based app that notifies consumers of relevant coupons while they’re in a given…
Kickvox Launches Bing-Powered Apps to Take a Visual Approach to Mobile Search
According to Toronto-based Kickvox mobile search is ‘broken,’ with existing technologies still having been built and optimized…
“AirPlay for Android” Startup Zapstreak Launches Out of Beta to Beam Media Content
Despite the fact that Google released support for Miracast’s technology with Android’s Jelly Bean 4.2 release,…
Leanplum Brings A/B Testing to Mobile Games with Analytics Platform
Mobile analytics is an increasingly competitive space, with companies like Flurry trying to do for mobile apps what Google…
AudioBox Debuts New Version to Help People Store and Stream Music Anywhere
For people who have extensive media libraries on their desktop or stored in the cloud, finding a way to easily stream music…
Tout’d Acquires Villij, Rebrands to Help People Get Recommendations From Friends
Today New York City-based Tout’d, a word-of-mouth referral platform we covered in July, announced its acquisition of Villij,…
Spreecast Raises $7M Series A to Take Social Video Platform Mobile
San Francisco- and New York City-based social video platform Spreecast announced today that it has added $7 million in Series…
Mail Client Sparrow Acquired by Google, Joining Gmail Team
Sparrow, a mail client for iOS and Mac, announced today that it has been acquired by Google, in deal the terms of which weren’t…
YBUY raises $1M for "Try Before You Buy" Subscription Service
We recently wrote about the rise of the “try before you buy” business model, and how ecommerce companies are letting…
Sidecar Puts a Fresh Spin on Voice Calls
In the mobile world, innovation has become something that consumers expect, and the ability to, for instance, send photos and…