Canadian Startup is Auctioning its Own Platform Through its Own Platform
Montreal's Pibster is a reverse auction platform that wants users to sell anything and everything through social media, starting with Twitter.
The premise is simple: a user sets a high price, and every time someone tweets that auction item, the price decreases by a fixed amount until someone clicks buy (assuming someone is interested before it hits the reserved minimum price).
read moreNew Canadian Anti-Spam Law Will Have Big Global Impact
A forthcoming anti-spam law in Canada is going to have dramatic, global effects on how Canadian companies manage their e-communications. Yet many don't even know it exists.
read moreTeralys Capital Injects $50 Million in Rho Canada Venture Fund II to Invest in Tech Startups
Teralys Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Rho Canada Venture Fund II, concurrent with its initial closing of $100 million.
read moreNew Way to Expense: Now You Can Attach Receipts to Your FreshBooks Invoices
Toronto's FreshBooks has added a new way to file expenses through their web platform. The Canadian tech company now allows users to upload expense receipts of any file format and attach them to invoices.
read moreV-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.
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