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.
Vancouver's Recon Instruments is showing off an early version of Recon Jet at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O.
Toronto's Rogers is the first telecommunications company in Canada to open its retail locations for interior Google Street View tours.
Google Street View is in the process of capturing images that will immortalize the inside of the House of Commons.
According to a new report from Digital Trends, software giant Google is currently negotiating a deal to acquire WhatsApp for "close to $1 billion."
Today, Google announced that its lineup of cloud-based Chromebook laptop computers will be available in seven more countries, including Canada.
The University of Toronto computer science department confirmed today that Google has acquired one of their startups lead by professor Geoffrey Hinton. DNNresearch Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and includes two of Hinton’s graduate students, Alex Krizhevsky and Ilya Sutskever.
Apple has been named the "World's Most Admired Company" for the sixth year in a row.
University sophomore Tyler Andersen captured a serious crash at a Nascar event on Saturday. The crash saw debris, including a racecar tire, fly into the stands, injuring fans.
An Australian software developer says Google was providing him with personal information of everyone who purchased his mobile app.
Social network Twitter made short work of its competition during yesterday's 52 Super Bowl commercials. And it didn't even need an ad to do so.
Microsoft has been dethroned. Canadians think Google is the most influential brand in Canada, a recently updated list concludes. It happens to be a company based out of California and only two Canadian companies make the top ten list at all.
"The notion that a hack is a simple exfiltration of data at a particular point in time is very much over—hacking is now about the gathering and synthesis of information over long periods of time," explains Metaforic, a mobile security provider for the enterprise and software developers. "The fear and likelihood is that the vulnerability of so many hacked apps will accelerate large scale, high profile attacks against the enterprise."
Despite mounting privacy concerns, Google has charmed the vast majority of Canadians.
One of Google's most fascinating side projects has been that of the self-driving car. And it's been remarkably successful, getting in only one minor accident which was actually the fault of another, human-driven vehicle.