Great Tech to Help Small Business Owners Modernize Their Office
By Christine Persaud
While tech initiatives have historically been reserved for big business, today’s technology is focusing more and more on helping small businesses grow.
Tag: Canadian Business
QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app prepares freelancers and small businesses for tax time
By Gadjo C. Sevilla
Intuit’s QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app eliminates the pain points associated with financial management and helps self-employed workers easily manage their operations from anywhere as well as be ready for tax filing season.
STEM Tools Help Tomorrow’s Girls Tackle Robots, Coding and More
by Lee Rickwood
Yes, they are colourful and a little bit cutesy, but SmartGurlz robots are serious about encouraging girls to become tomorrow’s computer programmers.
Understanding the implications of an A.I. future with Microsoft’s Mohamed Musbah
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
“A lot the apps and services we use on our smartphones and computers are machine learning driven,” Musbah says. “It is just that we’re not as aware as a lot of that is behind the scenes.”
Facebook’s Data Privacy Scandal Extends to Canada: 600K Users, 10 Years and Counting
by Lee Rickwood
Extremely important privacy questions about Facebook’s data sharing being investigated now echo those raised in 2008.
Digital Makeovers: AR, AI in Canada Changing the Face of Beauty Industry
by Lee Rickwood
Social media and e-commerce continue to drive much of the beauty industry’s sales online, and AI-enabled apps like those developed by Modiface recreate the valuable in-store experience of working with a makeup stylist or beautician.
Canadian Food App Turns Social Ordering into King Street Ritual
by Lee Rickwood
The app offers what it calls the Piggyback service, kind of a peer-to-peer delivery network inside of a company or office doing the ordering. If one worker is going to pick up a coffee, a co-worker can “piggyback” on that order and bring back two cups.
Montreal medical team enables world’s first-ever tele-ultrasound solution
By Yasmin Ranade
Montreal’s Reacts (Remote Education, Augmented Communication, Training and Supervision) platform, created by Innovative Imaging Technologies Inc. (IIT), will be used to revolutionize remote collaboration in portable ultrasound.