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Startup jobs of the week: Tulip, SHIFT, Altus Assessments
9 days ago –
Every day, Canada’s tech startups post their latest and greatest
job opportunities on Jobs.BetaKit, powered by Jobbio. From early-stage
to Series B and beyond,...
Accelerator Centre, Amazon collaborating on first Canadian Alexa tech accelerator
6 days ago –
Applications are officially open for the Accelerator Centre’s
Alexa Voice Tech Accelerator program at the University of Waterloo, a
collaboration between the Accelerator Centre...
6 days ago –
The Conexus Venture Capital Fund, launched earlier this year
by the Regina-based Conexus Credit Union, has reached its $30 million
fund target, as the...
Coveo raises $227 million CAD to pursue “aggressive” growth in AI e-commerce market
4 days ago –
Unlike some other Canadian AI companies, Coveo has flown
relativity under the radar since it was founded in 2005. That hasn’t
stopped the Québec...
4 days ago –
An email to Planswell investors obtained by BetaKit sheds new
light on the recent demise of the Toronto-based FinTech startup.
Yesterday, the company published...
Clean energy investing startup CoPower to be acquired by Vancity Community Investment Bank
3 days ago –
CoPower, a clean energy investing startup, is set to be acquired
by Vancity Community Investment Bank (VCIB), a Toronto-based chartered
bank and subsidiary of the...
Vancouver-based Grow Technologies acquired by Alberta’s ATB Financial
2 days ago –
Vancouver-based FinTech startup Grow Technologies, which
develops software solutions in the loan management space, has been
acquired by Alberta’s ATB Financial. The purchase price...
2 days ago –
BlackBerry QNX has been selected by Hyundai Autron, an arm of
South Korean automobile manufacturer, Hyundai, to power Hyundai Autron‘s
advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS)...
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This robotic arm slows down to avoid the uncanny valley
3 days ago –
Robotic arms can move fast enough to snatch thrown objects right
out of the air… but should they? Not unless you want them to unnerve
the humans they’re interacting with, according to work out of Disney
Research. Roboticists there found that slowing a robot’s reaction time
made it feel more norma...
Legislators from ten parliaments put the squeeze on Facebook
3 days ago –
The third meeting of the International Grand Committee on
Disinformation and ‘Fake News’, a multi-nation body comprised of global
legislators with concerns about the societal impacts of social media
giants, has been taking place in Dublin this week — once again without
any senior Facebook managem...
DNA testing startup Veritas Genetics confirms data breach
3 days ago –
Veritas Genetics, a DNA testing startup, has said a data breach
resulted in unauthorized access of some customer information. The
Danvers, Mass.-based company said its customer-facing portal had
“recently” been breached but did not say when. Although the portal did
not contain test results or med...
Banning digital political ads gives extremists a distinct advantage
2 days ago –
While Jack Dorsey's policy sounds compelling, it’s flawed in principle and, I fear, counterproductive.
Alpaca nabs $6M for stocks API so anyone can build a Robinhood
2 days ago –
Stock trading app Robinhood is valued at $7.6 billion, but it
only operates in the U.S. Freshly funded fintech startup Alpaca does the
dirty work so developers worldwide can launch their own competitors to
that investing unicorn. Like the Stripe of stocks, Alpaca’s API handles
the banking, securi...
Optimizing customer retention will be a priority in 2020
2 days ago –
Seven emerging trends will shape the way companies delight and retain customers in 2020.
Instagram to test hiding Like counts in US, which could hurt influencers
2 days ago –
“We will make decisions that hurt the business if they help
people’s well-being and health” says Instagram’s CEO Adam Mosseri. To
that end, next week Instagram will expand its test of hiding Like counts
from everyone but a post’s creator to some users in the United States.
But there are major que...
Relocating Indonesian capital will impact nation’s startup ecosystem
2 days ago –
A move to East Kalimantan would allow for further development in
the startup industry, with a focus on ecommerce and
sustainability-focused enterprises.
“Trump should not be our president” says Ex-Facebook CPO Chris Cox
2 days ago –
Chris Cox’s motivational speeches were at the heart of
Facebook’s new employee orientation. But after 14 years at the social
network, the chief product officer left in March amidst an executive
shake-up and Facebook’s new plan to prioritize privacy by moving to
encrypt its messaging apps. No deta...
Can America ever rebuild its neighborhoods and communities?
15 hours ago –
We talk a lot about startup ecosystems around these parts, and
for good reason. Strong ecosystems have great reservoirs of talent
congregated close together, a culture built around helping one another
on ambitious projects, and sufficient risk capital to ensure that
interesting projects have the ...
Week in Review: Airbnb is just the beginning
16 hours ago –
Hey everyone. Thank you for welcoming me into you inbox yet
again. I got some awesome responses to the #DeleteLinkedIn newsletter
last week, a few dozen emails (some of them angry) and plenty of tweets.
Looking forward to chatting with some of you soon. On that note, I’m
currently in China for a ...
Two security researchers earned $60,000 for hacking an Amazon Echo
20 hours ago –
Two security researchers have been crowned the top hackers in
this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest after developing and testing several
high profile exploits, including an attack against an Amazon Echo. Amat
Cama and Richard Zhu, who make up Team Fluoroacetate, scored $60,000 in
bug bounties for t...
Microsoft bet against Intel with its new Surfaces — and lost
3 days ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Microsoft’s latest Surface hardware is now out in the world, and it’s
clear that the biggest gamble that the company took with this year’s
models — a move away from Intel’s market-dominating processors — hasn’t
quite panned out.
The focus on non-Inte...
Death Stranding’s creepy little baby is also kind of cute
2 days ago –
It’s impossible to miss when BB cries. The unsettling baby is
one of the constants of Death Stranding, the latest game from Metal Gear
creator Hideo Kojima. BB is part equipment, part character; it remains
helplessly trapped in a sci-fi jar, where it both bonds with Death
Stranding’s lead charact...
2 days ago –
Image: Evan Blass
A newly leaked promotional video has given us our first look at
Motorola’s Moto G8, which looks set to be the third entry in the G8
lineup behind the Moto G8 Play and Moto G8 Plus that were announced last
month. The video, which was shared by notable leaker Evan Blass, shows
...
WeWork’s workers are organizing
2 days ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
WeWork — sorry, The We Company — is in freefall, and has been since
its disastrous attempt to go public earlier this year. The co-working
company’s S-1 filing revealed a whole bunch of chicanery, mostly in
service of enriching Adam Neumann, its founder a...
2 days ago –
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
This week on The Vergecast, Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller
welcome back Verge reporter and artist Dami Lee to discuss the biggest
news that came out of Adobe Max 2019. Dami was able to attend the event
focused on updates in creator softwar...
Roku’s new free app lets you control your viewing with your Apple Watch
2 days ago –
Photo courtesy Roku
If you’re constantly misplacing your Roku remote, you now have an
alternative way to control your movies — right from your wrist.
According to the Roku blog, there is now a free app available for the
Apple Watch.
The Roku app looks, and works, very much like the iPhone and ...
9 new trailers you should watch this week
21 hours ago –
Photo: Kyle Kaplan / Sony Pictures
The Deuce wrapped up a couple weeks ago with one of the all-time
weirdest final episodes. Part of me loves it: the show jumped decades
into the future to show just how much New York has changed, which has
really been the story of the show all along. It also f...
a day ago –
Image: Vizio
Sam’s Club, like every other major retailer, will be taking part in
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2019. But unlike most others (aside from
Best Buy), it’s already getting things started with a day-long sale
today, Saturday, November 9th. You’ll just need a Sam’s Club membership
to...
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