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Google brings Chromebooks to the world (or at least more of it)
After being Amazon.com’s best-selling laptop for 149 days straight, Google is taking its Chromebook show on the road, both internationally and at home. Today, Google and its hardware partners Acer, HP,...
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Silicon Valley North? Canada ‘startup visa’ program could cost U.S. in war...
While foreign entrepreneurs face a protracted immigration battle in the U.S., Canada has forged ahead with a new ‘Startup Visa‘ program. Canada is not the first country to implement policy to entice...
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To infinity and beyond! ‘Earth video camera’ takes one giant leap forward
For all the people who have fantasized of seeing the earth from outer space, UrtheCast is making that dream a reality. UrtheCast is launching the world’s first high-definition video platform of Earth,...
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The ‘startup visa’: Why Canada made it a priority & why the U.S. should too
This is a guest post by Boris Wertz On Thursday, March 28, Canada announced that a new startup visa program would begin accepting applications. Governments can be notorious for slow change, especially...
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Toronto founders, angels, and VCs: We’re coming for you!
Junket alert! The Ontario ministry of economic development has invited VentureBeat to check out the center of the universe, AKA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. And I’m the lucky guinea pig. We’ll be in...
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In death, BlackBerry gives life to startups in southern Ontario
TORONTO — Best known, perhaps, for being the headquarters of BlackBerry, Waterloo is a small suburb of Toronto with a population of 98,000 in which 500 startups were born in 2012. I’m in Ontario,...
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How Ontario plans to become the world’s top technology hub
Canadians: humble, mild, polite, with a global reputation for being non-aggressive. Except, of course, at a hockey game. And, increasingly, in Ontario, where startups, government, industry,...
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This Google office has a real fireman’s pole, slide, cattle walkway, and more...
Nap rooms are so 2000s. Massage rooms are a dime a dozen. And the in-office gym has been around since at least the ’90s. So if you want to up the ante, attract the best talent, and have the most...
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Flying car crashes near elementary school in Canada
A parachute-equipped flying car designed by a Florida-based company for the use of missionaries in developing countries has crashed in Canada, just feet from an elementary school about to have a sports...
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Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’...
Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies? As research indicates that the U.S. is an increasingly difficult place for foreign founders to come and build...
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How to join the virtual march on Washington for immigration reform
There’s only little more than a day left to join the virtual March for Innovation, which is digitally marching on Washington, DC to agitate for immigration reform. There are two key problems that...
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Vive la demo day: VentureBeat est à Montréal
MONTREAL — I’m in Montréal, Québec at the ungodly hour of 8:20 AM EST — yeah, that’s 5:20 PST — after arriving in my ‘otel about 1 AM last night. But it’s all good, because today is Demo Day for one of...
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SpaceX wins launch contract for largest-ever Canadian space program
SpaceXSpaceX announced today that it has secured the launch contract for the largest space program in Canada’s history. While wags might wonder how big the biggest space program ever for the U.S.’s...
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SpaceX launching Canada’s Cassiope weather satellite into space this Sunday
Elon Musk/Twitter Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Canada, we are cleared for liftoff. SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Cassiope satellite for the Canadian Space Agency this...
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Canada moves to Unbundle TV channels. But do you really want that?
TV image via Shutterstock Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Back when cable visionaries foretold the age of 500 channels, did anyone ever expect they’d have to buy them in big...
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This is the world’s first Bitcoin ATM
John KoetsierRoboCoin CEO Jordan Kelley with the world's first Bitcoin ATM Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now Want a coffee? Now you can pay in Bitcoin. The world’s first Bitcoin ATM...
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Financeit helps you buy expensive stuff you couldn’t otherwise afford
http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/08/poshmark-showrooms/ Dec. 4 - 5, 2013 Redwood City, CA Tickets on Sale Now One of the frustrating realities of life is not being able to afford everything we want or...
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O Canada, did you spy on airline passengers’ metadata?
If the antics of Toronto mayor Rob Ford weren’t enough, a new report about spying on airline passengers raises questions about whether Canadians fully deserve their reputations as the most trustworthy...
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Why Canada is where smart VC money is going in 2014
Image Credit: Richard Eriksson/FlickrWhile well established startup markets outside of Silicon Valley such as New York, Boston, and Seattle are already on venture investors’ radars, a key market for...
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Why Canada just might be the future of U.S. mobile payments
Image Credit: PhotoQuantiqueVANCOUVER — In Canada, 75 percent of major retailers accept contactless payment. In the U.S., fewer than 2 percent of retailers do the same. “Canada is the most ready...
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