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Toronto's Engag.io is a Social Conversations Dashboard to Manage Your Comments

There are so many blogs and media outlets where you can leave comments. People oftentimes post comments on a large number of websites and are bound to forget about some of those discussions. Worse, it’s hard to remember where you’ve commented.

That’s why Engag.io was created: so that one has a central social conversations dashboard to respond to all comments. While many websites use Disqus, which does notify you when someone has responded to your comment, it is only integrated into a handful of online media sites. With Engag.io, you’ll be able to connect to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, HackerNews, Tumblr, and Google to start.

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Startup Weekend Comes to Ottawa and Shopify to Host

Startup Weekend is coming to Ottawa for the first time and the city's hottest startup will be the host. Startup Weekend Ottawa will be held at Shopify on April 27th-29th.

Startup Weekend is an intense 54-hour startup event that provides the networking, resources, and incentives for individuals and teams to go from idea to launch. Startup Weekend’s motto: Build Community. Start Companies. No Talk. All Action.

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Canadian Entrepreneur's Startup Now at $2 Million Pledged in Just Two Days on Kickstarter

Vancouver-born, University of Waterloo-educated Eric Migicovsky wanted to raise $100,000 for his new Silicon Valley startup, Pebble, in about five weeks through Kickstarter. He got that amount in two hours. In one day, he had raised a million.

And now, we observe that the momentum hasn't slowed: two days in, Pebble has $2 million pledged from more than 14,400 backers—with 35 days left to raise even more.

Pebble is an Android- and iPhone-compatible smartwatch slated to launch this fall. Eric was previously known for Waterloo-based startup Allerta, which made an inPulse watch for the BlackBerry platform.

Canadian Entrepreneur Brian Wong Turns 21, His Startup Kiip Turns One

Yesterday, Brian Wong turned 21. Most people haven't accomplished much by that age—they're still figuring out their way through school, working a part time job, partying on weekends. They're not thinking about growing a business, building an empire, changing the world. Brian Wong is different.

The Vancouverite's entrepreneurial blood runs thick. The founder of Kiip, a mobile rewards network, is famous for being the youngest entrepreneur to ever raise venure capital funding for a startup when he was only 19 years old.

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Toronto’s Siren Advertising Invests Own Money into Client Ad Campaigns in Exchange for Revenue Share

Six years ago, Max Entin, founder of Toronto-based Siren Advertising started his own outsourced software development firm. When his developers had free time on their hands, they would work on creating proprietary products that the company could sell.

That’s when Entin’s team started to experiment with online advertising. Soon, they realized that they could make more money by focusing on online advertising, rather than software development. So, the company pivoted into Siren Advertising.

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Toronto's Ryerson Digital Media Zone Expands to 32 Startups, Many About Content and Context

Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone, located in the heart of Toronto at Yonge and Dundas Square, is now incubating 32 startups and has had 41 occupy space in the zone in just two years. They will also launch internationally in May by offering fellowships to young entrepreneurs from India. As well, the Zone has expanded to over 16,000 square feet—tripling in size since it first opened.

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Sony Beats Pebble to the Punch with SmartWatch, but Will it Flop?

After being unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in January, Sony's SmartWatch debuted in the UK, and today became available in the US. It's a pretty direct competitor to Pebble, a watch created by Canadian entrepreneur Eric Migicovsky. With Sony's SmartWatch out now, and the Pebble not slated to launch until the fall, is Eric's startup already doomed?

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Launch Calling for Canadian Startups to Demo in Silicon Valley

In an effort to showcase how technology is improving education and changing the way we all learn, our friends at Launch have just announced a pretty awesome event on June 12 and 13 in Silicon Valley for startups who are working on disrupting the education space, and they are extending it to Canadian startups as well.

100 startups will be given the opportunity to demo, out of which 25 will be selected to present at the event. Here are the three best ways to secure a spot on stage:

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Startup Struggles: Viability and Sustainability of Canada's Discount Wireless Carriers in Question

It's been more than a couple of years now that the new entrants such as Wind Mobile and Public Mobile have been competing for Canadians' business in the wireless space. But after all this time, the combined market share of the discount wireless carriers is a paltry 3.4%. The infamous Big Three of Rogers, Telus, and Bell still control at least 92% of the market in Canada. So what's up?

Moody's, for one, questions the progress Canada's wireless industry has made as a result of these new companies and their competitive offerings. "We question whether the new entrants ... are viable and whether their impact on the market will be sustainable," said vice president Bill Wolfe in a report.

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BREAKING: Vancouver Entrepreneur Raises $1 Million (and Counting!) from Kickstarter for Pebble Watch

He wanted $100,000 in five weeks. He got $1 million in one day.

Vancouver-born entrepreneur Eric Migicovsky has now raised a cool million (and counting) for his Silicon Valley company, Pebble Technology, and its new e-paper smartwatch for iPhones and Android smartphones, from funding site Kickstarter. Shattering the original goal number of $100,000 - which, incredibly, Pebble raised in just two hours, possibly a record - Eric's venture has raised seven digits from 7,300 backers with 36 days still left in the funding campaign. 

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