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Next Stop: Startup Canada National Tour Showcases Toronto's Top Entrepreneurs

Startup Canada will be showcasing Toronto’s top entrepreneurial talent this week as part of a two-week celebration of entrepreneurship in Ontario, the third stop in Startup Canada’s six-month National Tour. The Tour, which launched in March, is travelling across the country to promote entrepreneurship, identify key challenges facing Canadian entrepreneurs, and ignite new community-led solutions to those challenges.

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Old School Canadian Taxi Company Launches Mobile App to Compete with Next-Gen Uber, Winston Startups

The taxi industry hasn't changed much over time. But with a sudden rush of competition from the likes of Uber and Canada's own Winston, their hand has been forced: innovate or perish.

Starting today, Torontonians looking for a lift can order a traditional taxi with two taps on their smartphone. Beck Taxi is claiming to be Toronto’s first Taxi company to introduce a mobile taxi app.

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Uber Picking Up in Vancouver with Secret Testing Phase

Last month, Techvibes reported that San Francisco based on-demand private driving service Uber was launching in Vancouver.

Looks like we're on step closer with a secret testing phase beginning in the city—and you probably won't be surprised to hear who Rider One was.

HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes and an entourage grabbed a Uber signature black town car in Railtown.

Unfortunately the famous HootSuite Owl was nowhere to be seen.

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Toronto's Uberflip Dominates Google Chrome Store

Toronto-born Uberflip, a cloud-based PDF enhancement tool with embeddable social widgets like YouTube videos, finished 4th at the Road to Banff Canada 3.0 competition. It has since held a high ranking in recent weeks in the Google Chrome Store’s Marketing & Analytics section.

Yesterday, Facebook launched the App Center. Facebook’s App Center will allow all platforms to be listed whether they be iOS, Android, Blackberry, Mango, or Web. Uberflip’s COO Randy Frisch says they are working on that now. As mobile app stores have been incredibly popular, we're now beginning to see web stores beyond e-commerce.

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How to Create an Amazing Mobile Experience for Users: Canadian Case Study

What does the user experience mean in the mobile commerce space?

Forrester Research and Plastic Mobile agree that it’s basically the cornerstone of any successful mobile initiative.

They showcase this theory in the Case Study on Mobile UI/UX Design titled “Pizza Pizza Cooks Up a Successful Mobile App.”

Toronto-based startup Plastic Mobile says that t has been practicing a “user is paramount” theory since inception at the dawn of the mobile revolution.

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Vancouver Coworking Community HiVE Seeks Crowdfunding on Indiegogo to Pay Down Debts and Grow

We just recently covered the end of Allerta's Kickstarter campaign, which saw the Canadian-born startup raise more than $10 million from over 66,000 backers in the span of one month. Back in Vancouver, coworking community HiVE is hoping to raise a modest $35,000 in crowdfunding money using the Indiegogo platform, which we earlier today suggested as one of 12 ideal sites to use in Canada.

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Canadian Startup Relocating to New York City

According to a report on Business Insider today, Vancouver's nomorerack.com is setting up shop in New York City. No word on whether their 30 employees will be going with them.

Nomorerack's goal is to become the TJ Maxx of the web by cutting out all the middle men & overhead in between a household product and the consumer. They offer multiple items covering home, electronics, women, men and kids categories on deep discounts every day.

Nomorerack is currently selling 8,000 items a day, 5 items a minute, and already has 4.5 million subscribers and projects doing $100 million in revenue in the coming year.

So why are they moving to NYC? Three reasons according to co-founder Melina Ash:

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Turn Your iPad into a Mall: Check Out Toronto's Shopmox, the Flipboard for Shopping

We've all heard of one-stop shops. But how about a one-app shop? (Or would it be a one-app app? Or a one-shop app?)

Toronto's Shopmox is a self-described "Flipboard for shopping." Flipboard, if you don't know, is a highly regarded curator of news, that delivers a fluid, magazine-like stream of content pulled from a variety of relevant sources (similar to Vancouver's Zite). Shopmox, instead of creating a personalized magazine, concocts a daily "boutique," a digital showcase of apparel that suits your individual tastes.

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