Former “Grandmother’s Pick” Winners Onavo Acquired by Facebook for $150 Million
Sunday’s news that Tel Aviv-based app analytics startup Onavo had been acquired by Facebook for $150 million wasn’t…
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Toronto App Makes Dinner and a Movie a ‘Groovie’ Experience
No, you’re not greasing up your hair to take out your date in your old man’s ’56 Chevy Belair. This is 2013,…
Seamless is the Mobile Answer to Reducing Hospital Readmissions
Tax-time can be tough on the wallet, root-canal therapy isn’t much fun and moving doesn’t count as one of life’s…
Google Ventures Makes Largest Investment To Date as Part of $361 million Investment in Uber Taxi
Google Ventures, the private investment arm of the tech behemoth, is believed to be the lead investor behind a $361.2 million…
Just Eat launches mobile app, aims to process $50 million worth of food orders
One of the easiest tasks in the world got a little bit easier today, as the Canadian branch of JUST-EAT.ca, a food delivery…
Toronto-based Keek potentially closing in on “a hundred million dollar round,” user base tops 58 million
A few weeks ago The Globe reported that Keek, a free popular video sharing platform, was on the cusp of raising a ‘sizeable’…
The Next 36 Venture Day 2013 is happening August 13th, will be live streamed online
Next Tuesday is a big day for The Next 36 as 18 startups will pitch their ideas to a few angel investors and VCs. The Next…
Battling Showrooming? Develop a Mobile Strategy that Makes Sense for Your Brand
Mobile has undoubtedly changed the way we live our lives. It has altered the way we communicate, navigate through an unfamiliar…
SubPac is the New Musical Experience: StudioFeed Brings Music Into The Physical Realm With The Creation of a Tactile Audio Device
On a very basic human level, music is something we all innately understand. It’s the universal language of our species, and…
Square Launches National Contest for Canadian Small Business Owners
When the Square Reader crossed the border into Canada last October it was welcomed with open arms by Canada’s small business…
Wave introduces mobile payments as it approaches 2 million users
Wave, the Toronto-based accounting startup poised to take over the world with its intuitive, free invoicing and payments software,…
Waterloo-based Nanotech startup NeverFrost lives up to its name
Canadian winters are cold. Bone-chilling cold. Many of us waltz out to the car and grab the snow scraper to remove the frost…
BDC Venture Capital invests $1.5 million into 10 Canadian start-ups
BDC Venture Capital has announced a $1.5 million investment into 10 Canadian start-ups, each receiving $150,000. BDC declared…
Samsung’s vision of the future includes dual-screen devices and wearable tech
Samsung is one of the world leaders when it comes to technology. They recently showed off a vision of what they believe the…
Deetectee patents digital identification technology for mobile devices
Victoria-based Deetectee Microsystems is claiming to have invented “the first and only technology that enables secure,…