Category: Business

Kickstarting Entrepreneurial Business Opportunities in Canada: The French Tech Tour Canada 2016

By Yasmin Ranade
Yesterday marked the start of three weeks of business acceleration in Canada for 10 French startups, coordinated by Business France, the national agency supporting the international development of the French Economy. The first French Tech Tour 2016 networking event takes place in Toronto on Wednesday, June 8th at the DMZ: anyone can register to join

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CBC TV Goes Over-the-Top with IBM Video Services

by Lee Rickwood
The new CBC video player is part of an overall strategy and specific migration plan to greater digital content creation and distribution capabilities, both for pre-recorded content and eventually live programming.

Tax software and apps that put filing in your hands

By Ted Kritsonis

April may be the month that rings in the spring, but it’s also tax season, that time of year where one looks forward to a healthy return or dreads having to pay even more. Much of this process has now become digitized, with a host of software programs and apps.

Ekko Entrepreneurs Design The Digital Time Capsule

By Yasmin Ranade
Fuelled by a passion to uniquely connect people to one and another and over time through memories, Ekko has created what it labels, “the world’s first digital time capsule.”

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Canadian Police Forces, Emergency Services Seek to Harness ICT

by Lee Rickwood
Police forces seek to harness the power of various information and communication technologies, and to incorporate best practices for digital evidence management, Next Gen 9-1-1 services, body-worn video camera deployments and cloud-based data storage and processing.

MasterCard Start Path™ Opportunity for Entrepreneurs: Apply By March 21st

By Yasmin Ranade
MasterCard has launched its second year of Start Path and is now calling for applications in Canada. Since 2014, Start Path has provided more than 60 startups a variety of operational support, mentorship and investment to develop the next generation of commerce solutions.