The international vision of Toronto-based company Payment Rails has placed company founders Tim Nixon and Ferhan Patel at the cusp of a new movement: fintech startups who see the opportunity in a worldwide customer base. TechPORTFOLIO spoke to co-founder and CEO Tim Nixon about matching vision with execution on the world fintech stage.
Across agriculture, automotive, healthcare, and beyond, IBM’s inventors filed a record 8,088 patents in the U.S. in 2016, cementing the company’s top spot on the patent charts for the 24th year in a row.
Cars are rapidly becoming one of the biggest components of the IoT. With their vast array of sensors and electronics, and inclusion of 4G data connectivity, they have become rolling data platforms.
When the ultra-affordable, credit-card sized Raspberry Pi chip first became available in 2012, its potential quickly became clear. Not just an educational tool or a neat toy for hackers to tinker with, this little computer had a big future: five years (and five versions) later, its potential has been realized.
2016 was a banner year in tech and dev, and 2017 promises to be even more exciting.
If you thought 2016 was a banner year for changes in IT, hold onto your hat, because 2017 is shaping up to be even bigger, according to industry analysts.
Developers will be asked to wrap their heads around new technologies, new platforms, and new methodologies in 2017. Here are the five forces experts think will shape the dev landscape in the coming year.
The biggest developer trends of 2016 tell the story of the constantly-changing tech industry and the innovative developers at its core. Here’s a look at 5 leading stories that defined the dev world in 2016.
2016 was a year that saw both steady progress and revolutionary leaps in the tech sector. The Internet of Things came into its own, augmented reality changed the visual landscape of cities, and cognitive computing became a force that is impossible to ignore.
IBM has made significant investments in OpenWhisk, an open-source, event-driven FaaS platform. OpenWhisk is now generally available via Bluemix, IBM’s cloud platform.
MutualMind, a startup using IBM’s Bluemix developer portal, effectively used social listening to attract angel investors.
Major companies like Uber and Under Armour are putting data to work, and the emerging partnerships and new app developments are having a bottom-line impact.
IBM’s recently launched Blockchain Ecosystem is an open source, openly governed, cross-industry effort to advance the Linux Foundation blockchain technology known as The Hyperledger Project.
London, Ontario’s SmartCamp Pitch Competition happening December 14 will push Canadian tech talent onto an international stage.
The retail sphere continues to be one of the most agile adopters of technology
To help with the sometimes tough task of managing toolchains, IBM is releasing the IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery service with GitHub and Slack integration.
Rumblings about monetizing passive data have been part of the tech sector conversation for years.
Insurance and security are growing in the conversation around blockchain. How are these frontiers being explored in the world of startups?
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