Uber Turns Passive Data Into Active Earnings
Rumblings about monetizing passive data have been part of the tech sector conversation for years.[...]
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A Brief History of Hacking
There’s a direct correlation between the way open-source software permeated business and the developer culture we have today. Professor Gabriella Coleman and technology journalist Clive Thompson weigh in.
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Startup Cultures Across Canada – Toronto
If your startup is thinking global, the most diverse city in the world is the best place to start.
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How Vubble Got Its Groove
Entrepreneurs Tessa Sproule and Katie MacGuire run Vubble, a video content marketing company that helps brands build audiences on digital platforms.
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Ideal Has a Solution for Hours Wasted on Sales Recruitment
A Toronto startup that grew as a tangent to another business, Ideal.com uses algorithms and IBM Watson to streamline the recruitment process, from granular analysis to messaging – and follow-up messaging – to potential hires.
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Nudge VP on How Small Companies Offer Big Opportunities in Tech
Andrea Corey credits a good program at Queen’s University, the small engineering company where she first worked, and some supportive peers for her success to date in the tech industry.
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How to Skill Your Startup
TechPORTFOLIO spoke to Sonia Strimban, manager, Venture Operations at Mars Discovery District about the ideal evolution of startups within the accelerator community and the issues startups run into when it comes to finding employees with the right skills.
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How Code Breaking Inspired Shopify Lead to a Dev Career
After reading a book about WWII codebreakers called Cryptonomicon, Julie Haché “decided to play around with her laptop and I managed to recompile my first kernel. That was the moment that I got hooked. I knew I needed to learn more about this whole world.”
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How QoC Health Simplifies Patient Empowerment
Working as a business-to-business service provider, the company has built a powerful API platform that can scale digital health ideas, including patient monitoring, analytics, and turnkey integration with existing medical records.
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Agriculture. Healthcare. Real Estate: Three IBM Bluemix Use Cases
The PlantID3 mobile app is used by agricultural professionals to monitor crop health. SwiftPad lets patients take a photo of their prescription and send it to their pharmacy; they get real-time feedback on when their medication is ready and can opt to have it delivered. 4D Virtual Space replaces floor plans for real estate developers. All three of these solutions rely on IBM Bluemix.
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Most-Read Stories About Funding for Canadian Startups
Funding for U.S. startups in this year’s first quarter fell 25 percent from the fourth quarter of 2015 to $13.9 billion, the largest quarterly decline on record since the dot-com bust, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource. Still, the weak patch doesn’t mean the well has gone dry. Here are some of the most-read stories of the past month about funding for Canadian startups.
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