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Facebook Canada reaches out to small business by teaching them to market

Facebook Canada is reaching out to the small business crowd through a new program called Grand for Good – with the first trial run...

QuickMobile teams up with UK company Eventsforce

QuickMobile Inc., the Vancouver-based company that builds apps for event organizers, is reaching out worldwide by partnering up with U.K.-based company Eventsforce Inc. The partnership...

AOL’s latest acquisition highlights importance of online video

AOL Corp. made a bold move today to show it is serious about competing for the online video audience, with the acquisition of California-based...

Younger execs swapping phones for webcams: Cisco survey

If you’re an executive of the old guard, you may be using the phone to conference call your team – but for the next...

When crowdfunding goes wrong: how platforms handle fundraiser disputes

When Tara Reed first began her crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, she had high hopes that it would help her achieve her dream - to...

HootSuite lands ‘record-setting’ $165 M in venture capital

HootSuite Media Inc. has netted another $165 million in capital, one of the largest venture capital funding rounds for a software company on record...

Shopify acquires design and UX agency Jet Cooper

Shopify, Inc., the e-commerce platform headquartered in Ottawa, has acquired Toronto-based company Jet Cooper, a user experience and design agency, for an undisclosed amount. Jet...

Hyperdrive unveils new startups; set for six months of intense acceleration

Hyperdrive has announced its third cohort today, the first group to be in its program for six months rather than just three. Eleven companies garnered...

Hyperdrive adds Toronto demo day to program

The Hyperdrive accelerator program run out of Waterloo, Ont.-based Communitech Hub will extend its intensive development period from three months to six months, it...

The Working Group CEO to speak on community building as business plan

For Dominic Bortolussi, CEO of The Working Group, community building is built on getting people together to drink wine. When the entrepreneur started his Web...

Mobile to replace cash as king of payment options, report says

Cash might make the world go 'round right now, but it may lose its spot as the top transaction type between Canadian merchants and...

Satellite communications company migrates north to Ottawa

Satellite communications provider VT iDirect Inc. has come north, setting up a home base in Ottawa as its first Canadian office. A subsidiary of VT...

Privatis borrows corporate experience to run privacy-based startup

Once a denizen of the corporate world and now a startup founder and entrepreneur, Steven McAuley is no stranger to working hard, being patient,...

HootSuite’s revenues grow by 300 per cent

Social media management platform HootSuite Media Inc. is reporting record growth of 300 per cent in the second quarter of 2013, compared to...

Is that a $70,000 keyboard in your pocket?

When was the last time you tried to type out a long e-mail to your co-workers or boss on your phone or tablet, silently...

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