Edmonton-born TestFlight announced today that they have been acquired by Burstly. They are jointly launching TestFlight Live today.

TestFlight is one of the most popular service for beta-testing iOS apps. Burstly is a startup focused on helping mobile developers monetize through advertising.

TestFlight Live is a real-time dashboard that highlights actions and revenue for iOS apps. The TestFlight Live feature set is broken down into four segments: engagement, audience, revenue, and stability. The goal of the product is to provide a real-time display of the important factors happening in your app right now. It is available via Safari on desktop, iPad, and iPhone.

Are you a bigger believer in climate change today than you were six months ago, perhaps after the strange, unseasonal fall and winter in Canada?

At the very least, several major media outlets—including the Toronto Sun—have reported that there's something happening to the world's oceans where they are acidifying at levels unseen in perhaps 200-250 million years. Australian Joe Romm titled one article, "Ocean acidifying so fast it threatens humanity's ability to feed itself."

Yesterday international commerce leader FiftyOne announced the acquisition of Canada Post's Borderfree business unit.

As one of the pioneers in cross-border e-commerce almost thirteen years ago, Borderfree has built a robust cross-border business for leading U.S. retailers selling into Canada.

The National Angel Capital Organization, led by Executive Director Bryan Watson, is one of many venture capital investor groups in Canada. There are different types of VCs—the difference between angel investors and your standard venture capitalist is that they specifically focus on creative industries in general such as film, television, marketing, gaming, and more.

Silicon Valley based Travel search engine Uptake was acquired by Groupon yesterday.

AllThingsD reported that Uptake had been acquired by for something in the “teens of millions” (between $10 and $20). The company raised roughly $14 million from venture capital investors, so it was basically a break even transaction. TechCrunch is reporting this transaction as an "acqhire" with the Uptake team being integrated into Groupon's Palo Alto office and the existing service being shut down.

But why is Techvibes covering this acquisition?

Uptake co-founder Yen Lee is a Canadian and a C100 member and we got a chance to sit down and chat with him about Uptake during C100's 48 Hours in the Valley. Check out the video after the jump.

Rookie Dragons' Den investor Bruce Croxon is ready to invest in Canada's digital startups and announced today that he is bringing other investors on board his new $100 Million fund.

Croxon co-founded online dating service Lavalife in 1988 — well before social networking took hold. After the company is sold for $170 Million, he built Vida, a chain of holistic spas on the West Coast and started venture capital firm Round 13.