120 Left Jobless as BlackBerry Continues Its Descent
Embattled Waterloo-based smartphone maker BlackBerry has laid off 120 employees this morning. The Waterloo Record reported…
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UWaterloo’s VeloCity Fund Finals Set to Hand Out $100,000
The University of Waterloo startup’s incubator Velocity unveiled today the ten finalists that will compete for their…
Get Ready for a Chompdown! Waterloo’s Printchomp is Growing.
Have you ever ordered swag? What about signs for your business or tradeshow displays? Printchomp, a startup from Kitchener-Waterloo…
U Waterloo Stratford Campus Hands Out its Christie Design Awards
The town of Stratford, Ontario may soon be known for something other than Biebs and the Shakespeare Festival. That’s…
Tell is a New Private Messaging App Created By Four Ordinary Guys
One of the best parts about the tech game is it doesn’t really have any exclusivity. It’s not like those pretentious…
Waterloo’s Desire2Learn Targets Latin America With New Sao Paulo Office
According to CanadianPrivateEquity.com, Waterloo’s Desire2Learn, creators of an integrated learning platform for schools,…
Thalmic Labs and ClearPath Robotics Join Forces to Drive Arm-Controlled Robot
Thalmic Labs and Clearpath Robotics, both of which are Kitchener-based and from the University of Waterloo, have joined forces…
Google is Expanding into Larger Office Space in Kitchener
Google seems to like the Kitchener-Waterloo area. Today the Waterloo Record reported that the Silicon Valley-based tech giant…
Five Startups to Take a Four-Month Residency at the Google Innovation Space at Communitech
Google and Waterloo’s Communitech have a deep relationship and sincerely want startups to thrive. Back in December both…
Waterloo Startup Voltera Inc. Can Print Electronics
A pair of mechatronics grads from the University of Waterloo have launched a startup that prints electronics, from another…
BlackBerry Is Trying to Block the Sale of Ryan Seacrest’s Typo Keyboard Clip
We all know what happened three weeks ago, when embattled Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry filed papers to sue Ryan Seacrest’s…
Former NLL Lacrosse Player’s Workplace Engagement Platform Raises $500K Seed Round
Waterloo-based startup Plasticity, the workplace engagement platform cofounded by former professional lacrosse player Jim Moss,…
Waterloo’s OpenText to Spearhead $100 Million Fund for Enterprise Apps
The governments of Canada and Ontario weren’t the only ones with an extra hop in their step today at the Communitech…
Federal Gov’t + Ontario Premier Wynne to Make Venture Capital Announcement – Live Video Feed here
Kathleen Wynne, Ontario’s Premier, is set to make a big announcement today at Communitech in Waterloo. Joining her will…
CBC KW Gave One Lucky Listener Bitcoin Over the Airwaves
We’re not positive on this one, but it’s pretty likely that CBC Radio One 89.1 FM in Kitchener-Waterloo today was…