Building a successful business is about more than reaching deadlines and using hard skills to get things done: emotional intelligence (EI) and social skills are just as essential to productivity, according to City
Published on: August 31st, 2018 Meagan Simpson @megesimpson
Not much has changed in the past three years when it comes to diversity among startups in the U.S., as men continue to dominate the landscape. Based on 869 responses, San Francisco-based First
What surprises does 2013 hold for the tech industry? Will Research In Motion come back to prominence with the BlackBerry 10 platform? Will Apple release yet another iPhone to an enthusiastic worldwide reception?
Published on: December 7th, 2012 Shane Schick @ShaneSchick
With our HealthConnect study currently underway we are very excited to present this conversation with the Life Sciences and Healthcare Analyst at MaRS Discovery District. Hadi Salah helps life sciences and health care
Published on: November 13th, 2012 Karim Kanji @karimkanji
The Canadian government's proposed startup visa program may be onto something, at least when compared with recent remarks by a bastion of Silicon Valley tech training and education. Stanford University president John Hennessy
Ben Lang has a long list of accomplishments for an 18-year-old.According to just such a list on his Web site, the Israeli teen ran ahalf-marathon in just over two hours, “survived a summer
The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan has made a major investment in a New York-based tech fund.HOOPP is one of four new major investors in the recently closedCatalyst Investors III fund. The $213-million
The number of tech firm IPOs fell last year as political and economic instability continued to rock public markets around the world, new Ernst & Young data show.There were 149 tech IPOs in
Published on: July 23rd, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
He's been called a fearsome negotiator, overzealous, demanding, picky, argumentative, grating - and brilliant.Now the guru behind New York City's new $2-billion tech campus iscoming to Toronto this week. Seth Pinsky, president of
Published on: July 17th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Twenty-six girls from around the Toronto area will be designing running shoes, extracting DNA from bananas, and competing in a mock robot Olympics this week during IBM's tech camp for girls.For over a
Published on: July 16th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
PwC Canada has unveiled the beta version of its interactive map of tech companies in British Columbia.The 2012B.C. Techmap is an update of the last map published in 2003,which wasn't even interactive back
Published on: June 20th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Canadian Web and mobile startups are getting a jolt of financing and mentorship opportunities courtesy of Canada's largest tech incubator.The Toronto-based MaRS Discovery District announced a new techaccelerator program called Jolt today. It
Published on: April 24th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
A security intelligence software firm bought by IBM and a SaaS provider catering to the fast food sector are among this year's nominees for the 2012 KIRA awards honouring the best in New
Published on: April 17th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
Some high-profile investors have already been lined up to put money into a new $30-million tech incubator in Waterloo, Ont.Research in Motion Ltd., OMERSVentures (the venture capital arm of theOntario civil servants' pension
Published on: April 17th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
