Slyce, a visual recognition purchasing platform, is making quite a name for themselves. They have already been dubbed the “Shazam of Stuff” and just Techvibes learned exclusively that the company's oversubscribed seed funding round has topped out at just over $3.75 million at its official close. It’s not surprising that we...
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My last startup, Attassa, despite being acquired by Yousendit, was gruelling. Three times we built different products and felt famous when blogs like TechCrunch covered our launch and forced user acquisition through the roof. And three times we felt devastated when website traffic and our belief in the product came crashing back to earth the day after launch. We pushed through, not because of belief in what we were building, but why we were building it.
Profit magazine is searching for hot young companies for their 14th annual Profit Hot 50 list.
Recognizing Canada’s top new growth companies, the list ranks businesses by their past two years' revenue growth. So if your firm was launched in 2008 through 2010, you can enter to be in the Profit Hot 50 list.
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The world of startups is a complex animal and one that’s subject to the odd mood swing or two. With rapidly-shifting consumer tastes, volatile, agitated markets and seemingly light-speed global tech innovation, picking a startup winner is as tricky as finding a needle in a needle stack.
Originally introduced in the US in Octobe 2012, eBay Feed has come to Canada.
Despite how connected humans are thanks to smartphones and social networks, important messages still get lost in the mix. That’s why Vancouver’s Progrid Technologies developed the iiris app, (short for important information relayed in seconds), which promises to ease multi-channel communications so that notifications never get overlooked again.
The Ottawa International Game Conference, which showcases the innovations and emerging trends in the Ottawa and Canadian gaming industry, starts on Wednesday, May 29.
The inaugural Atlantic Venture Forum is next month in Halifax and it's already being tagged as Atlantic Canada's premier access to capital event.
The lineup of keynote speakers is impressive and includes Charley Lax, Paul Singh, Peter van der Velden, Ben Yoskovitz, and Yona Shtern.
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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.
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.
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.