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By Joseph Czikk June 20, 2014

20 Years and 150 Million Monthly Uniques Later, Vice Founder Sheds Light on Its Humble Canadian Beginnings

On the Friday afternoon of NXNE 2014’s interactive portion, likely the most anticipated speaker told the story of how…

By John Gray March 10, 2014

It’s long odds that many university undergrad papers transform into a winning business. After attending CES in 2002 and seeing…

By Ian Hardy February 11, 2014

Bitcoin, the cryptography digital currency, has popped up on Canadian soil over the past number of months. Bitcoin ATMs, or…

By Ian Hardy February 7, 2014

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) is increasing in Canada and TELUS, Canada’s second largest wireless carrier, sees value in allowing…

By Joseph Czikk September 10, 2013

Silicon Valley-based startup SoThree launched the Umano app for commuters or news junkies last year, and since then its been…

By Ian Hardy August 28, 2013

TeamBuy.ca, the Toronto-based group buying site was founded in 2009 by Edward Yao and Andrew Hutchings, has just announced…

By Jared Lindzon August 12, 2013

Canadian startup Shopify – who recently acquired Jet Cooper – announced the introduction of Shopify Payments today,…

By Ian Hardy July 24, 2013

We’re incredibly proud to announce that BetaKit is the official online sponsor of the upcoming MasterCard N>XT Developer…

By Ian Hardy July 3, 2013

MasterCard has been doing business in Canada for 40 years and today they’ve announced a partnership with MaRS Discovery…

By Humayun Khan November 5, 2012

Discovering the exact formula for how news should be delivered and consumed on mobile devices might seem like a far-reaching…