Last month, Techvibes reported that San Francisco based on-demand private driving service Uber was launching in Vancouver.
Looks like we're on step closer with a secret testing phase beginning in the city—and you probably won't be surprised to hear who Rider One was.
HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes and an entourage grabbed a Uber signature black town car in Railtown.
Unfortunately the famous HootSuite Owl was nowhere to be seen.
read moreToronto-born Uberflip, a cloud-based PDF enhancement tool with embeddable social widgets like YouTube videos, finished 4th at the Road to Banff Canada 3.0 competition. It has since held a high ranking in recent weeks in the Google Chrome Store’s Marketing & Analytics section.
Yesterday, Facebook launched the App Center. Facebook’s App Center will allow all platforms to be listed whether they be iOS, Android, Blackberry, Mango, or Web. Uberflip’s COO Randy Frisch says they are working on that now. As mobile app stores have been incredibly popular, we're now beginning to see web stores beyond e-commerce.
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What does the user experience mean in the mobile commerce space?
Forrester Research and Plastic Mobile agree that it’s basically the cornerstone of any successful mobile initiative.
They showcase this theory in the Case Study on Mobile UI/UX Design titled “Pizza Pizza Cooks Up a Successful Mobile App.”
Toronto-based startup Plastic Mobile says that t has been practicing a “user is paramount” theory since inception at the dawn of the mobile revolution.
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We just recently covered the end of Allerta's Kickstarter campaign, which saw the Canadian-born startup raise more than $10 million from over 66,000 backers in the span of one month. Back in Vancouver, coworking community HiVE is hoping to raise a modest $35,000 in crowdfunding money using the Indiegogo platform, which we earlier today suggested as one of 12 ideal sites to use in Canada.
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According to a report on Business Insider today, Vancouver's nomorerack.com is setting up shop in New York City. No word on whether their 30 employees will be going with them.
Nomorerack's goal is to become the TJ Maxx of the web by cutting out all the middle men & overhead in between a household product and the consumer. They offer multiple items covering home, electronics, women, men and kids categories on deep discounts every day.
Nomorerack is currently selling 8,000 items a day, 5 items a minute, and already has 4.5 million subscribers and projects doing $100 million in revenue in the coming year.
So why are they moving to NYC? Three reasons according to co-founder Melina Ash:
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We've all heard of one-stop shops. But how about a one-app shop? (Or would it be a one-app app? Or a one-shop app?)
Toronto's Shopmox is a self-described "Flipboard for shopping." Flipboard, if you don't know, is a highly regarded curator of news, that delivers a fluid, magazine-like stream of content pulled from a variety of relevant sources (similar to Vancouver's Zite). Shopmox, instead of creating a personalized magazine, concocts a daily "boutique," a digital showcase of apparel that suits your individual tastes.
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Toronto's TeamBuy and SellOffVacations have come together in a joint partnership to provide exclusive vacation packages available to TeamBuy subscribers. Accessible through TeamBuy's travel vertical, the custom trips will offer "striking discounts and unique travel experiences to Europe, Mexico, Caribbean and the United States."
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Pebble's legendary Kickstarter campaign has come to an end. Final numbers: the company raised a staggering $10,168,645 from 66,613 backers. In total, Allerta has pre-sold 85,000 Pebbles. And all of this from an original goal of just $100,000.
read moreOn the top floor of the Mercer building on 104th Street and Stony Plain Road is the newly outfitted home of Startup Edmonton, an organization that hopes to turbocharge the city's startup ecosystem. Within the next five years, CEO Ken Bautista hopes to invest in up to 500 entrepreneurs.
Startup Edmonton isn't a new idea: it's your typical accelerator, providing startups with office space, mentorship, and money. But it's a new idea to Edmonton, a city that has entrepreneurial blood flowing through but that hasn't yet realized its potential as a tech hub in Canada.
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Everyone always talks about which Twitter users have the most followers. It's been the same for a while now: Lady Gaga is number one, while Canada's own Justin Bieber ranks second. It hasn't changed in quite some time and probably won't for many months.
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