Toronto-based VerticalScope Acquires Health Media Today group of websites
Toronto-based VerticalScope has acquired a collection of health related sites from Health Media Today, a network that reaches…
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Ryerson DMZ Signs Friendship Agreement with One of Europe’s Largest Tech Accelerators
Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) has signed a “friendship agreement” with Canary Wharf Group…
Toronto Students Win Startup Weekend Youth Edition with “Shake On It” App
Gordon Sun and a few high school and university-aged peers have been enjoying their free office space at Toronto’s Project:…
MaRS and Norton Rose Fulbright to Launch Free “Innovation Law Clinic”
The MaRS Discovery District has partnered with Norton Rose Fulbright to offer startups a new free “Innovation Law…
Toronto’s TouchBistro Adds Mobile Payments to Its Restaurant POS Solution
TouchBistro today announced it’s adding mobile payments to its POS solution for restaurants, allowing diners to pay…
Start Small and End Big: Four Easy Strategies to Get Your Small Business Online Buzz
Social media has changed the way small businesses engage with customers, promote their products and increase brand awareness,…
Ryerson University’s DMZ Named World’s 5th Best University Incubator Program
The University Business Incubator (UBI) Index, a Stockholm-Sweden produced report that names what it believes to be the 25…
BetaKit Wants to Send You to This Summer’s GROW Conference
Update: Thanks to all of our readers for all the wonderful and insightful responses. A winner has been selected and will be…
New BDC-Backed Accel-Rx Health Sciences Accelerator Will Give Startups $500,000
More government money is going towards Canadian startups, this time to those in the health sciences sector. The Business Development…
Ontario “Cheese Whiz” Wins BDC’s Young Entrepreneur Award Contest
The votes are in and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) has named its 2014 Young Entrepreneur Award winner, in Gunn’s Hill…
After Seven Years of Bootstrapping, UBC-Born TaskTop Technologies Raises $11 Million
TaskTop Technologies, a startup out of Vancouver that created a software development toolkit integration technology, has raised…
Why We Work Remote: The Evolution of the Work Place
Last year in December of 2013, we made a decision to give up our office space in the Accelerator Center in Waterloo and become…
The OCE and Extreme Startups are Extending the SmartStart Program
According to the Ontario Centres of Excellence and Toronto-based startup accelerator Extreme Startups, dozens of entrepreneurial-minded…
Toronto’s SnapSaves Gets Aquired By Groupon
Toronto startup SnapSaves has announced on its website that it has been acquired by Groupon. The terms of the deal were not…
Project: SPACES Demo Day Shows Off Six Toronto Startups
Toronto’s Project: SPACES coworking space network hosted its first ever “demo day” last week at one of its…