Canadian Mega Angel Boris Wertz is Joining Andreessen-Horowitz
According to Andreessen-Horowitz’s blog, Canadian mega-angel and founder of Version One Ventures, Boris Wertz is moving on to the $2.5 billion venture capital firm, founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben...
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Netflix Raises Monthly Price by $1
Netflix has increased the price of its popular video and television streaming service up to $9 for new customers in Canada and elsewhere. According to Reuters, Netflix suffered from a consumer exodus...
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FounderFuel Head Ian Jeffrey Resigns, Will Join PasswordBox as VP Marketing
Ian Jeffrey is leaving the accelerator program that he helped build to 45 portfolio companies over five cohorts to join Montreal startup PasswordBox as its new VP of marketing. Jeffrey launched...
View ArticleUWaterloo to Open New Velocity Foundry as Kitchener-Waterloo’s Hardware...
Hardware startups are outnumbering software startups for the first time in the University of Waterloo VeloCity Garage program’s history. The startup incubator today announced its new lineup of ten...
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CYBF Changes Its Name to “Futurpreneur Canada”
In today’s mention of Ryan Jackson’s BDC Mentorship Award win, the Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) quietly announced that it has changed its name to “Futurpreneur Canada”. The move reflects a...
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The Infamous Secret App Can Now be Downloaded Outside the US
Secret, the app that’s stirred up so much controversy via its ability to allow anyone to post completely anonymous rumours, has expanded worldwide as well as on Android. Previously the app was only...
View ArticleChild Porn Case Leads to Landmark Decision: Canadians Have a Right to Online...
Canadians have a right to remain anonymous on the Internet and police cannot obtain information about individuals from their Internet service providers (ISP) ruled Canada’s Supreme Court of Canada...
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Ubisoft to Invest Heavily in Quebec City for Future Assassin’s Creed, Will...
Ubisoft will invest $4 million of a previously announced $28 million investment in a new workspace at 585 Boulevard Charest Est in Quebec City for the development of the next Assassin’s Creed game....
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Desire2Learn Launches New Integrated Learning Platform called Brightspace
Waterloo-based learning platform software startup Desire2Learn has partially rebranded and named its new integrated learning platform Brightspace. It’s also announcing new partnerships with Microsoft...
View ArticleTwitter CEO Says Canada Among ‘Fastest-Growing Markets’
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo told Globe and Mail reporter James Bradshaw that Canada is among the social media tool’s “fastest-growing markets.” The CEO said that to “reach every person on the planet” is...
View ArticlePlancast Hits the Deadpool After Battling Busy Event Promotion Space
If someone had asked entrepreneur Mark Hendrickson his own plans three years ago, chances are he wouldn’t have put ‘entering the deadpool’ on his list. But after launching his event-sharing startup...
View ArticleMessaging Startups React To Apple’s iMessage Announcement
The mobile messaging market has been crowded for a long time, with some of the tech industry’s true leviathans weighing in with their own apps and services that seemed ready to squeeze smaller players...
View ArticleConvore Shutting Down as Founder Focuses on New Startup
Updated with comment from Convore co-founder Leah Culver. Group communication is a crowded space, as we wrote about when we covered the reaction of messaging startups to Apple’s OSX iMessage expansion....
View ArticleKiip Poaches Zynga Exec to Grow Beyond Games
Manny Anekal, former Global Director of Brand Advertising at Zynga, is leaving the social gaming giant to step into a COO role at rewards startup Kiip. Kiip, which got its start rewarding gamers with...
View ArticlePhilanthroper, the Groupon for Good, Goes Up For Sale
Philanthroper, the site launched by Mark Wilson’s Panoramic Media that applies a daily deals-style ecommerce model to charitable donations, is now up for sale. Wilson announced the news via Twitter,...
View ArticleFoursquare Co-Founder Departs Amid Talk of Changes
Over the weekend, GigaOM’s Om Malik broke the news that Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai is departing the company on what is essentially the third anniversary of the company. The location-based...
View ArticleSocial News Reader Smartr Shutting Down
Smartr, the social news reading service launched in October of 2011, will be shutting its doors as its creators focus their attention elsewhere. Founders Temo Chalahasi and Marc Provost of Factyle...
View ArticleRdio Redesign Puts Social Discovery Front and Center
At an event today in Austin during the SXSW Interactive festival, music streaming service Rdio introduced a brand new overhaul of its user interface and user experience. The Spotify competitor now has...
View ArticleOink Closure Raises Questions About “Fail Fast” App Development
Today Milk Inc. announced its debut product Oink is shutting down, just five months after it was originally debuted by Milk co-founder Kevin Rose back in October of last year, and about three months...
View ArticleIt’s David vs. Goliath for Square and PayPal
Today, eBay subsidiary and online payments industry leader PayPal introduced PayPal Here, a dongle and software combination for mobile devices that competes directly with Jack Dorsey’s startup Square....
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