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How 5G drones are saving Canadian crops

Tom Li

Published: December 4th, 2020

IBM launches Watson Data Kits to help travel and food service businesses harness big data

IBM Corp. wants to help businesses across the spectrum reap the benefits of digital transformation, and it's supporting the transportation and food service industries with its latest release. Announced Tuesday, Watson Data Kits

Published on: March 21st, 2018 Eric Emin Wood

NextAI People’s Choice winner is using machine learning to reduce food waste at grocery stores

TORONTO - For Krista Caldwell, the most shocking part of university was grocery shopping for the first time. "I couldn’t believe that apples cost more than chocolate bars,” the cofounder of Vancouver-based Deepnify,

Published on: September 25th, 2017 Eric Emin Wood

Four fresh innovation tips Canadian retailers can steal from the food industry

We all have to eat. Our constant craving drove Canada’s grocery and restaurant sectors to combined sales of $217 billion last year. Like every other industry on this planet, food retailing is being disrupted by

Published on: March 10th, 2017 Christine Wong
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Hunger Games: An easy solution to a wasteful problem

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an entrepreneur in possession of a good idea must be in want of a meal. We know that thinking hard takes a lot of brain power.

Published on: July 30th, 2013 Kayleigh Platz

Venio’s health app shifts focus from meal planning to food discovery

Ramen noodles, anyone? For most of us this poster child of nutrition, more specifically lack thereof, sparks memories of university days. For others it’s synonymous with startup lifestyle. What about calorie counting and

Published on: January 31st, 2013 Maria Karpenko
Waterloo’s farmers promote local food with mobile app

Waterloo’s farmers promote local food with mobile app

What do you get when you cross a farmer, a coder and a designer? No, this isn’t the start of a bad joke. It’s a snapshot of a local collaboration of agriculture and

Published on: August 22nd, 2012 Kayleigh Platz
Decadent food, vicious vampires and cell phone companies

Decadent food, vicious vampires and cell phone companies

"Fried Apple iPie: A warm, delicious crispy fried apple pie with just a hint of cinnamon, smothered in rich vanilla ice cream and topped with an edible iPod-like MP3 player and whipped cream.

Published on: September 22nd, 2008 Mark Gibbs
Toronto company serves up food using cool GPS services

Toronto company serves up food using cool GPS services

Some like it hot. In fact most people do.But consistently satisfying customers' need for hot meals posed a bit of a problem for food delivery entrepreneur, Cameron Reid. As the operations of his

Published on: June 26th, 2008 Brian Jackson