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by Andrea Wahbe
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Last month, Wilf Dinnick, the founding editor and CEO of Canadian startup OpenFile received an award as J-Source Canadian Newsperson of the Year.
"The jury applauds his courage to put his own reputation on the line to create new and innovative approaches to engaging citizens with local, public service journalism in an...
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by Techvibes Newsdesk
on Fri, February 10, 2012 10:38 AM
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For Canadian small businesses, accounting and payroll can be massive headaches.
Recognizing this Vancouver's Kashoo, a provider of small business cloud accounting software, and Toronto's PaymentEvolution, a payroll services provider, are teaming up to bring their respective services to Canadian small businesses in one nifty, integrated package.
Any Canadian small business...
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by Rob Lewis
on Thu, February 9, 2012 6:35 AM
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Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman recently announced that the Bay area tech Meetup groups had more RSVPs in 2011 than those in any other city.
New York City had the second-most members of Meetup tech group RSVPers, followed by London, Washington D.C. and Chicago. The fastest-growing tech scene on...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Thu, February 9, 2012 6:01 AM
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While there are sites like Brands of the World and Ads of the World that inspire marketers and celebrate advertising creativity, Justin Clark started AdChop, a growing collection of online and mobile advertising case studies. The Ottawa-based AdChop founder says that it's a place where agencies and online merchants can...
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by Rob Lewis
on Wed, February 8, 2012 1:37 PM
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Join a networking crowd of investors, startups and entrepreneurs in Toronto or Montreal for the Canadian screening of Ctrl Alt Compete – a Microsoft documentary on what it takes to be a startup.
Among the cast of Ctrl Alt Complete are Josh Sookman - Founder of Toronto's Guardly. Check out...
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on Tue, February 7, 2012 12:51 PM
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Have you ever searched for something on Craigslist or Kijiji only to find NO results? Considering the breadth of items available between these two popular classified sites, it's safe to say your timing is just off and your unique item will be online again soon.
But how do you make sure...
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by Techvibes Newsdesk
on Sat, February 4, 2012 10:00 AM
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Student Startups is a new weekly series created by Techvibes to highlight Canada's talented student entrepreneurs. Across the country, bright minds with brilliant ideas are launching businesses before they even graduate from school. We want to recognize and celebrate these ambitious youngsters, who refuse to let studying for exams hinder...
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by Dan Verhaeghe
on Fri, February 3, 2012 11:46 AM
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Albert S. Bitton of Group Buying in Canada said at the Dx3 Canada Conference last week there were some massive group deals in Canada in 2011, most notably DealFind's $375,000 Tablet Group Deal, as well as some from TeamBuy and WagJag.
• WagJag pulled in $229,000 for an Afternoon Tea at the Windsor Arms...
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on Fri, February 3, 2012 8:24 AM
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As Canada's startup discount wireless carriers gradually get better at offering higher end devices, Vancouver-based Wind Mobile has added three new smartphones to its product lineup.
On the Android front, Wind is is now selling the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. It's $599 or $249 on thw Windtab+. On the BlackBerry front, Wind...
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