Rob Ford's term as the mayor of Toronto has been littered with controversy and bizzare spectacles. This latest one, though, is perhaps the craziest of all. Gawker is using crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise $200,000 to acquire footage of Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine, speaking homophobic slurs toward other politicians, and...
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The old saying “half of my money spent on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half” by John Wanamaker used to be a shield marketers could hide behind when explaining which of their campaigns went sour and didn’t create the returns on investment initially promised.
Remember when you were a kid and your mom or dad pressed some cash in your hand and sent you off to the store? Whatever was leftover from their purchase could be used for candy.
There is both good news and bad news for BlackBerry.
The promise of a mobile wallet that completely replaces the need to carry around our heavy, overloaded cowhides may still be far away. But according to Derek Colfer, head of mobile innovation at Visa Canada, the future of mobile payments is already here.
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) is looking for Canada’s most promising innovative technology companies to introduce to the UK’s vibrant tech community.
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Nokia this week launched Nokia Music in Canada, its free music streaming service.
Two of Canada's major telecommunications companies, Rogers and Bell, are itching to launch their own video streaming products, which could create a lot of competition for Netflix.
I was simultaneously thumb wrestling one-on-one with a bearded business executive and a group of fellow attendees during a keynote at Canada 3.0.
On Sunday, May 26, an HTML5 Gaming Workshop will be held in Vancouver.
The event, presented by Vancouver Polyglot {Un}conference, Startup Weekend Vancouver and Microsoft Canada, will show attendees how they can use HTML5 to build games and interactive experiences today. Then they will be shown how they can take those HTML5 games and migrate them to Windows 8 to take advantage of monetization opportunities with 60 million potential users.
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The Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credit program is one of the most generous in the world and many software companies take advantage of this program to help fund their research and development initiatives.
Six Canadian startups will be participating in the second round of ideaBoost, a business accelerator for companies focused on creating content and enabling technologies for the media and entertainment industry.
Pebble has raised $15 million in a Series A round of funding from Charles River Ventures.
Telecommunications giant Telus has agreed to acquire discount wireless carrier Mobilicity for $380 million.
BlackBerry Live, the company's annual conference in Orlando, wrapped up today.
Here's some of the major announcement BlackBerry made during the event:
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Vancouver's Recon Instruments is showing off an early version of Recon Jet at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O.