There is a great deal of commentary regarding HootSuite, a Vancouver social media company, and its practice to offer unpaid 40 hour per week internships in exchange for work experience. Apparently, the internships
Twitter announced an expansion of its Promoted Products advertisements today with integration into social media managment tools including Salesforce.com's Marketing Cloud and Hootsuite. The social media site hopes to better optimize its Ads
The CEOs of some of Canada’s leading-edge technology firms are excited for the year ahead, but a little bit sad that Research in Motion is suffering tough times, a CBC News story reports.
We're often told that social media is the new journalism, informing people of news before the so-called mainstream (or lamestream, if you prefer) media, and with more depth. And HootSuite's list of the
In two years, will ignoring a tweet be seen as rude by your customers as ignoring a phone call would be today?That’s what the Egham, U.K. division of consultancy firm Gartner Inc. is
Pebble grabbed headlines recently for raising more than $10 million in a very short period on cowd funding site Kickstarter, the social media-powered venture capital raising site.Time runs out on Pebble Kickstarter funding
Vancouver-based social media management system HootSuite is looking to social media giants, LinkedIn, Facebook, Witter and Google to help the company raise a $50 million round at a $500 million valuation, according to
Here's what's making headlines on the startup scene today:Virtual store opens in Toronto Starting today Guelph, Ont. startup Well.ca has opened what it callsthe first QR code virtual store in North America on
Your startup doesn't need to move to the U.S. to achieve success – in fact staying on Canuck soil will make it easier to retain top talent while keeping a high standard of
Twitter can be a powerful business tool, not to mention a valuable source of metrics data and feedback. If not managed properly, though, Twitter tweets can quickly become overwhelming -- sifting out the
