CentriLogic’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.

FounderFuel Accelerator Graduates 11 Startups From Across Canada

Today Montreal's FounderFuel will graduate 11 startup teams at historic Monument National in front of a sold out crowd including investors from San Francisco, New York, Boston, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

Anticipation is high as last fall FounderFuel graduated 9 teams of which 4 have raised a combined total of over $2.5 million to date.

Today's FounderFuel graduating class hail from across Canada - Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City and St. John’s - and includes:

GROWtalks: a hands-on playbook for creating startup success

The organizers of the GROW Conference have announced something new for 2012.

Day one of the three-day conference has now been labelled GROWtalks and will be focused on how startups can create simple, actionable metrics, and use them to make better product and marketing decisions for long-term growth.

The 'Greatest Canadian You Never Heard of' Awarded Order of Canada

Jeff Skoll, who the Calgary Herald has dubbed "the greatest Canadian you never heard of," will be presented with the Order of Canada this week.

What Does it Take for an App to Get on Apple's Top 25 List?

A lot of iPhone and iPad users never bother to venture beyond Apple's top 25 lists for apps. That's why it's so important to developers that they crack this list, even just temporarily, if they want to make it big.

But getting there requires some success to have already been established. The question of just how much, though, has never been perfectly clear.

Tech Companies Still Dominate World's Top Brands

Technology companies still dominate BrandZ's list of the world's top brands, market research agency Millward Brown has revealed. But that's not very shocking—there are technology's glory days. The big news this year is that software titan Google has been knocked off its second-place pedestal.

Vancouver Continues Pioneering Role in Drupal

It’s no surprise to those of us in the Drupal community that Vancouver played a big role in paving the future of Drupal internationally. Here in Vancouver, we hosted one of the first Drupalcon's ever back in 2006 (today there are hundreds of Drupal Camps and larger Cons around the world).

Something about the open-source community aligns well with the way west-coasters see the world: accessible, inviting, improved by the contributions of many great minds. The open-source (some might say open mind, model) has led Drupal to become the most advanced CMS on the market.

Catastrophe for Facebook, Wall Street, Investors: SEC and FINRA Plan Investigation of Facebook IPO

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's chairman told Reuters today that regulators plan to review allegations that underwriter Morgan Stanley shared negative news before Facebook's hotly anticipared initial public offering last week with institutional investors.