V-Pole Concept Could Put Vancouver on Bleeding Edge of Urban Technology
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.
read moreCalgary Plugs into Accelerator Craze with Big Silicon Valley Partner
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.
read moreDay Four: Facebook Faces Multiple Lawsuits from Shareholders
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.
read moreCommunitech's HYPERDRIVE Accelerator Issues Final Call for Entrepreneurs to Apply
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.
read moreCentriLogic’s Data Centre Launches in Downtown Toronto Tower
At CentriLogic’s data centre launch, Info-Tech Research Group’s VP of Research and Development Davin Juusola said that there will be a twenty to thirty fold increase in the amount of data consumption in the next decade.
Juusola explained that we may see some of the most successful CIOs in history because of the perfect storm of technology trends that mobility is driving. So in retrospect, perhaps it is fitting that CentriLogic launched a data centre in Toronto last Thursday.
read moreFounderFuel Accelerator Graduates 11 Startups From Across Canada
Today Montreal's FounderFuel will graduate 11 startup teams at historic Monument National in front of a sold out crowd including investors from San Francisco, New York, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.
Anticipation is high as last fall FounderFuel graduated 9 teams of which 4 have raised a combined total of over $2.5 million to date.
Today's FounderFuel graduating class hail from across Canada - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City and St. John’s - and includes:
read moreGROWtalks: a hands-on playbook for creating startup success
The organizers of the GROW Conference have announced something new for 2012.
Day one of the three-day conference has now been labelled GROWtalks and will be focused on how startups can create simple, actionable metrics, and use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth.
read moreThe 'Greatest Canadian You Never Heard of' Awarded Order of Canada
Jeff Skoll, who the Calgary Herald has dubbed "the greatest Canadian you never heard of," will be presented with the Order of Canada this week.
read moreWhat Does it Take for an App to Get on Apple's Top 25 List?
A lot of iPhone and iPad users never bother to venture beyond Apple's top 25 lists for apps. That's why it's so important to developers that they crack this list, even just temporarily, if they want to make it big.
But getting there requires some success to have already been established. The question of just how much, though, has never been perfectly clear.
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