Ryan Holmes in WSJ: Be Smart on Twitter and Don’t Make These Mistakes
81 percent of consumers expect a same-day response on Twitter. Is your business ready?, tweeted a well-known Canadian CEO minutes…
Female Head of Twitter Canada to Publish New Book, “Our Turn”
Move over Sheryl Sandberg, there’s another female social media exec ready to push her manifesto to the shelves. Twitter…
Vancouver’s Hootsuite Lands Spot on Mashable’s “Winners of Tech 2013”
It’s been going so well for Vancouver-based startup Hootsuite that Mashable has proclaimed that the social media dashboard…
After a Failed Funding Mission and an Axed CEO, What Will Become of Keek?
Before the summer had started, the Financial Post had already dubbed then Keek CEO Isaac Raichyk as “clearly an anomaly”…
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo to Speak at FounderProject Event in December
Twitter‘s CEO will be the keynote speaker at FounderProject‘s December 4 “FounderChallenge” event,…
Twitter’s self-serve ad platform now open to Canadian Small and Medium sized businesses
Twitter has over 232 million active users and the company is on an upward trajectory. Usage for its quick messaging service…
Financeit Launches iPad Mini Contest for Canadian Small Businesses
Financeit, a Toronto-based company that allows businesses to offer consumer financing to their customers from any device, is…
Brooklyn Man’s “@Rogers” Twitter Handle Bares Brunt of Angry Canadians
Now this is funny. A Brooklyn-startup founder named Glenn Rogers has the unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on how you look…
Jack Dorsey and Square Say Its Less About Payments and More about analytics
He completely changed the media industry and now he’s changing the mobile payments sector. But Jack Dorsey said that his…
Finmaven and Bionym Launch at Today’s Accelerate TO
Amid an exciting day at Accelerate T.O that will include a keynote delivery by Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey, two…
Canadian Girl-Coders Can Apply to Square’s College Code Camp
Several coding initiatives geared towards women have garnered media attention during the past few weeks and one more has launched…
CHNL Adds Daily Deals, Looks to Be the One Content Aggregator to Rule Them All
With the plethora of social networks that a person logs into daily, from checking Facebook to keeping up with Twitter, LinkedIn,…
Checkthis Relaunches With “Social Posters” & Profile Features To Take On Tumblr
BetaKit covered Belgium-based Checkthis in June when the startup raised $910,000 to expand its team and footprint to NYC,…
Pheed At Almost 1M Visits Since Launch, But Don't Call it The Paid Twitter
Startup Pheed is looking to give celebrities and any other user a new way to share and monetize their content, via a web-based…
Tackling Information Overload, KiteDesk Launches Cloud Aggregation Tool
Every day people use multiple social networks and cloud-based services, from Facebook and Twitter to Dropbox and Google Drive.…