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by Karim Kanji
on Fri, March 19, 2010 8:24 AM
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It may not have been a big launch party or a bash but it was a launch nonetheless. Public Mobile, Canada's newest entry in the wireless marketplace, finally opened for business in both Toronto and Montreal yesterday. And maybe they've learned a lesson or two from the start-up cousin, WIND...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, March 17, 2010 1:47 PM
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With all the talk of Canadian brain drain to the United States and the lack of a strong tech startup ecosystem in Canada, it's great to hear about companies like San Francisco-born A Thinking Ape moving the opposite way.
Founded by three twenty-something Canadians who met in the Bay Area, A...
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by Karim Kanji
on Wed, March 17, 2010 1:09 PM
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As a professional in the technology or social media space, chances are that you are an independent contractor or are considered a small business owner. A new online business solution is now available to those of you whose most dreaded job is accounting and bookkeeping: Wave Accounting. Kirk Simpson is...
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by Rob Lewis
on Mon, March 15, 2010 10:43 AM
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On the March 22nd the McGill Entrepreneurs’ Society is hosting the Perfect Pitch from 5:00pm - 6:30pm. The informal event will welcome an entrepreneur and a Venture Capitalist to guide attendees to the perfect pitch and begin with five students pitching their business ideas.
Entrepreneur Benjamin Yoskovitz will share...
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by Varun Mathur
on Tue, March 9, 2010 11:50 AM
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Remember John Kerry, the Democratic Presidential candidate in 2004 ? Well, couple of weeks ago he introduced a bill in the US Congress on a special visa for foreign start-up entrepreneurs. This bill is the result of extensive lobbying efforts by prominent Silicon Valley folks who figured that easing the...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 9, 2010 11:30 AM
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Invis recently renewed their annual contract with HomeZilla to provide them with real estate related geo-data. Invis, Canada's largest mortgage broker, is a leader in using technology to help their brokers. The geo-data is used to help produce an Invis Feature Sheet that outlines all the information a home buyer...
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by Rob Lewis
on Tue, March 9, 2010 10:05 AM
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Today is the official launch date of C100 in Silicon Valley and they're hosting a reception and dinner in San Francisco to celebrate. C100 is a non-profit, member-driven organization dedicated to supporting Canadian technology entrepreneurship and investment.
C100 is comprised of a select group of Canadians based primarily in Silicon Valley,...
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by Karim Kanji
on Tue, March 9, 2010 8:52 AM
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If you haven't used or even heard of the mobile location-based services such as Foursquare and Gowalla then you are in the minority. Such services, in case you don't know yet, are used to tell the world where you’re visiting, And now a company has created a service that can...
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by Ian Bell
on Fri, March 5, 2010 1:54 PM
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Ian Andrew Bell is a Techvibes Guest Contributor and this post was published on his blog earlier today.
Over the past way-too-many years I’ve had occasion to interview north of 250 individuals for dozens of positions at both startups and large companies on both sides of the border. Having spent...
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