While it's too late to submit nominations for the majority of categories in the Digital Alberta Awards, there are still two days left to submit your nominations for the Most Inspirational Digital Leader.
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Montreal's Pibster is a reverse auction platform that wants users to sell anything and everything through social media, starting with Twitter.
The premise is simple: a user sets a high price, and every time someone tweets that auction item, the price decreases by a fixed amount until someone clicks buy (assuming someone is interested before it hits the reserved minimum price).
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A forthcoming anti-spam law in Canada is going to have dramatic, global effects on how Canadian companies manage their e-communications. Yet many don't even know it exists.
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Teralys Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Rho Canada Venture Fund II, concurrent with its initial closing of $100 million.
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Toronto's FreshBooks has added a new way to file expenses through their web platform. The Canadian tech company now allows users to upload expense receipts of any file format and attach them to invoices.
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Canadian novelist Douglas Coupland wants city streets to be clear of cellphone towers, parking meters, wifi terminals, and streetlights. And the City of Vancouver is eager to turn his dream into a reality.
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Calgary's Boast Capital announced today a partnership with Saeed Amidi and the Plug and Play Tech Center to launch Startup Camp Canada.
The hybrid accelerator program will provide Canadian startups acceleration time in both Calgary and Silicon Valley and access to over 180 Silicon Valley venture capital firms and angel investors such as Accel Partners and Sand Hill Angels, world class entrepreneurs from companies such as YouTube and Skype, and a community of leading universities and corporate partners.
Startup Camp Canada will be launched in two phases.
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The debacle that has become Facebook's salient IPO is worsening still: following a looming investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Facebook and a group of banks are now being sued by shareholders for hiding material information about weakened growth forecasts.
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Waterloo-based Communitech is making a final call for applications for it new HYPERDRIVE acclerator. Interested entrepreneurs have until June 4 to apply to the $30 million program to seed, fund, and grow new businesses.
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