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Canada brings government sites back online after Heartbleed bug
Image Credit: Illustration by Eric Blattberg / VentureBeatThe Canadian government thinks it’s finally safe from the Heartbleed bug. Canada has brought all of its public websites back online after...
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Canada says China guilty of cyber attack on top research organization
Above: Astronaut Stephen K. Robinson anchored to the end of Canadarm2Image Credit: WikimediaThe Canadian government has accused China of hacking the IT infrastructure of the National Research Council...
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Canada’s Competition Bureau is investigating Apple’s domestic wireless...
Canada is not too happy about Apple’s contracts with wireless carriers. Earlier today, Canada’s Competition Bureau, a watchdog for business regulations and practices, said that it’s investigating...
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Amazon launches parcel pickup points in Canada, just in time for the...
Two weeks after Walmart expanded its new “Grab & Go” collection service for online purchases across Toronto, Internet behemoth Amazon has followed suit with a slew of new physical pickup points...
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Amazon launches its ebook subscription service ‘Kindle Unlimited’ in Canada...
Amazon has launched its Kindle Unlimited subscription ebook service in Canada and Mexico, its eighth and ninth market respectively. Today’s news comes more than six months after the service first...
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Why you should start your video game company in Canada
GUEST: Canada is one of the fastest-growing hotbeds for game development, and on a per capita basis, it is the largest gaming industry in the world, with more than 329 gaming companies employing more...
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Canada’s opt-in rules could change marketing as we know it
Successful CMOs achieve growth by leveraging technology. Join us for GrowthBeat Summit on June 1-2 in Boston, where we'll discuss how to merge creativity with technology to drive growth. Space is...
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Amazon’s next AWS data center region will be in Canada
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it will open a new region of data centers in Canada — specifically Montreal — sometime in the next 12 months. “The...
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Why Canada just might be the future of U.S. mobile payments
VANCOUVER — 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 country in the world for mobile...
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Toronto Stock Exchange hires Bitcoin entrepreneur to study the blockchain
(By Ethan Lou, Reuters) – The Toronto Stock Exchange has hired a Bitcoin entrepreneur as its first chief digital officer as it explores the capabilities of blockchain, the technology behind the virtual...
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Canada’s Execution Labs shuts game accelerator and moves upstream to larger...
After three years, Canada’s Execution Labs has decided to shut its game startup accelerator program. Now it is transitioning to doing fewer, more custom investments in independent game studios. The...
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Canadian mechanic builds a ski car
Being Canadian means a lot of things. For example, I’ve driven a car, an ATV, and a snowmobile. But this, this is something else. Canadian inventor and mechanic Tod Anderson has taken a Smart car and...
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Canadian Netflix users complain as access to U.S. service blocked
(Reuters) – Some Canadian Netflix Inc users cried foul on Wednesday after the video-streaming giant appeared to have made good on its pledge to block access for customers using unauthorized services to...
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As Google faces landmark legal fight in Canada, tech firms and advocacy...
FEATURE: Google is no stranger to litigation, but for the past couple of years, the company has been fighting a case in Canada that could have far-reaching implications — not only for Google, but for...
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Chinese man to serve U.S. prison term for military hacking
(Reuters) – A Chinese businessman who pleaded guilty in March to conspiring to hack into the computer networks of Boeing and other major U.S. defense contractors was sentenced on Wednesday to nearly...
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Forget Peter Thiel. Embrace where you are
GUEST: Oh, Peter Thiel. It’s always entertaining when smart people say stupid things, but we probably shouldn’t be surprised by what Thiel said in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. As brilliant as he has...
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Toronto is proving to be a hotbed for machine learning
GUEST: If you’re interested in learning about, investing in, or building a company involved in machine learning, Toronto should be on your radar. Here are five reasons why: 1. The Geoff Hinton Lab...
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Google forms Montreal AI research group, gives $3.37 million grant to Yoshua...
Google is announcing today that it’s setting up a deep learning and artificial intelligence (AI) research unit in its office in Montreal and giving $3.37 million in grant money to deep learning...
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Amazon’s first Canadian AWS data centers go live
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that its new Canada region of data centers is now available for people to use. Computing, storage, database, and other...
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Japan’s CyberConnect2 levels up to become a global Triple-A game studio
CyberConnect2 has been making games for two decades, growing from a tiny company in Fukuoka, Japan, to more than 200 developers today. It has worked on big titles such as the licensed Naruto games and...
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