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Tech financier buys $20 million majority stake in Xtreme Labs

Tech financier buys $20 million majority stake in Xtreme Labs

Chamath Palihapitiya is once again investing in the Canadian tech scene that nurtured his Silicon Valley roots. The prominent Valley venture capitalist and ex-Facebook executive isreportedly paying up to $20 million over the

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 25th, 2012 Christine Wong
10 provinces, 36 cities, 1,000s of ideas: Startup Canada tour nears end

10 provinces, 36 cities, 1,000s of ideas: Startup Canada tour nears end

Just like the startups it aims to help, Startup Canada's national tour is taking a non-linear route to reach its final goal. The non-profit organization's cross-country tour was originally slatedto wrap uptoday with

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 21st, 2012 Christine Wong
Toronto firms get chance to meet 500 Startups partner

Toronto firms get chance to meet 500 Startups partner

Paul Singh is best known as a partner at Silicon Valley accelerator 500 Startups but tomorrow he'll be meeting with just five lucky startups when he stops in Toronto.Singh has a busy itinerary

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 10th, 2012 Christine Wong
Back-to-school tech tools from DMZ startups

Back-to-school tech tools from DMZ startups

Toronto's Ryerson University isn't just a place where thousands of students have started classes this week. It's also a hotbed of tech startup ingenuity that can be used for student survival.Now that you've

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 6th, 2012 Christine Wong
Real-time map of Kickstarter projects to launch Monday

Real-time map of Kickstarter projects to launch Monday

An independent Web blog is launching a real-time map of active Kickstarter projects Sept. 10, according to one of the site's co-founders.Kickstarter allows individuals and businesses to ask for donations from many different

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 6th, 2012 Brian Jackson
Guardly partners with security firm Code Blue

Guardly partners with security firm Code Blue

Physical security firm Code Blue Corp. will partner with Toronto-based Guardly to roll out its mobile personal safety app to its emergency communications product suite.Guardly's mobile app acts like and panic button that

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 5th, 2012 Brian Jackson
Spongelab welcomes teachers back to class

Spongelab welcomes teachers back to class

It might be the first day back to school after summer vacation for students across Canada, but Toronto-based Spongelab Interactive is offering to allow teachers to do the same.At least, for a few

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: September 4th, 2012 Brian Jackson
Cisco gears up for 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto as official ICT partner

Cisco gears up for 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto as official ICT partner

Cisco has officially embarked on a three-year long marathon race to provide key IT services for the 2015 Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Toronto.The company was unveiled today as the exclusive

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 29th, 2012 Christine Wong
Ryerson’s DMZ incubator takes on its first foreign startups

Ryerson’s DMZ incubator takes on its first foreign startups

Canada's tech incubator scene is going global.Toronto's Ryerson University is welcoming nine youngentrepreneurs from India for a four-month stint at its Digital MediaZone. It may just be the first time a Canadian technologyincubator hasformally

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 28th, 2012 Christine Wong
Guardly app becomes Toronto school’s pocket panic button

Guardly app becomes Toronto school’s pocket panic button

A downtown Toronto university will be giving its students a free panic button in their pockets this fall, rolling out a mobile app that they will use to call for help in on-campus

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 28th, 2012 Brian Jackson
Angry Birds teach physics to summer camp students

Angry Birds teach physics to summer camp students

Angry Birds is more than just your average mobile video game – it’s a veritable popular zeitgeist. It’s hard to exaggerate the success of this simple game, in which birds are slingshot through

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 22nd, 2012 Brian Jackson
IT World Canada president Annan joins new CanWIT advisory council

IT World Canada president Annan joins new CanWIT advisory council

Canadian Women in Technology has named 17 new members to its advisory council, including Fawn Annan, president and group publisher of ITBusiness.ca's parent company IT World Canada.CanWIT, a division of the Canadian Advanced

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 21st, 2012 Christine Wong
Two Canadians make MIT’s list of top 35 tech innovators under 35

Two Canadians make MIT’s list of top 35 tech innovators under 35

Two Toronto IT academics are in good, if rare, company as of this week.Hossein Rahnama of Ryerson University and Universityof Toronto's JoycePoon have been named one of the world's top 35 innovators under

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 21st, 2012 Christine Wong
Indian startup incubated at Toronto’s DMZ wins Samsung award

Indian startup incubated at Toronto’s DMZ wins Samsung award

An Indian startup incubated at Toronto's Digital Media Zone has won a Samsung Innovation Award.Zumbl, a nine-month-old firm basedin Delhi, India took home the awardthat included a $3,000 prize and a Samsung tablet

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 20th, 2012 Christine Wong
Ladies Learning Code expands to Vancouver

Ladies Learning Code expands to Vancouver

Go west, young ladies, go west.The team behind the Toronto startup Ladies Learning Code (LLC) is doing that this week byholding two programming workshops in Vancouver, the first expansion ofthe smash hit courses

Share on LinkedIn Comment on this article Share with Google+ Published on: August 20th, 2012 Christine Wong