Yahoo just acquired Tumblr this past weekend for $1.1 billion, but it's already on the hunt for another purchase.

Tomorrow is the Mobile Biz BootCamp: Developer Edition. Hosted by The Mobile Institute, the event takes place from 10:30am to 5:30pm EST at 51 Mercer Street in Toronto.

A $99 ticket will get you into the event, which will see mobile industry experts from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the UK converge. Techvibes readers can get free tickets (in limited quantities) with the discount code "TECHVIBESFREE" or 50% off with the discount code "TECHVIBES50".

Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association today announced that Marzio Pozzuoli, founder and former CEO of RuggedCom, is the recipient of the association’s 20th annual "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award.

As digital content streaming slowly takes over traditional television—and, in some cases, peacefully co-exists with it—Netflix felt it necessary to explain why streaming is simply better overall.

Amazon first unveiled the Kindle Fire, an Android-powered tablet, in September 2011. It launched the month after.

The Information Technology Association of Canada is searching for Canada’s most technologically savvy organization in five different categories: large private business, large public organization (enterprise), small to medium size business, small to medium size public organization, and not-for-profit (non-government organization). 

Volta this week celebrated its public launch, giving a crowd of 120 people a glimpse inside its 10,000-square-foot facility in Halifax. The orgnaization has Build Ventures, a $50 million in-house venture capital fund.

Nimble, a social relationship management platform, this week launched version 3.0 of its site.

On Thursday, May 30 at the Sound Academy on Polson Pier, KPMG is hosting the GTA Tech Leaders Concert Series.

The event is slated to feature tech industry bands Ceridian (formerly Dayforce), Smithson Martin, Intelex, and others. Alan Smithson will also be MCing and DJing the show. If you haven’t heard of Smithson, you should know that such bands as Linkin Park and Infected Mushroom among others use his emulator.

Jean Cocteau once said that film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper; thanks to smartphones and social media, it’s safe to say that’s the case. The Vancouver film industry should be very proud of Cinecoup. The Top 10 films, for whom voting begins next week, includes all six Vancouver-based projects of the Top 15.