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| Oct 25, 2022 | Microsoft President Brad Smith is leading the vision of a connected Cascadia | Microsoft President Brad Smith interviews the company’s founder, Bill Gates, at the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference. Photo: Robert Ritchie Photography.
“If there's one thing that doesn't respect the border, it's carbon,” Brad Smith,... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Health social network Curatio merges with Australia’s RxMx to form patient experience giant | (Credit: Unsplash)
Mobile health company Curatio and Sydney-based RxMx have merged to form RxPx, a new patient management software firm for life sciences companies. The deal was financed by private equity firm Pemba Capital Partners, which ... |
| Mar 29, 2022 |
The Story Behind QuadrigaCX and Gerald Cotten, Netflix’s ‘Crypto King’ | Our story begins in December 2018 with Gerald Cotten, the founder of Canada’s largest crypto exchange at the time, QuadrigaCX. He and his new bride, Jennifer Robertson, go on a trip to India where Cotten, who suffered from Crohn’s disease, ... |
| Aug 15, 2021 | 🥇📚 Someone call Guinness | The Sunday Briefing | Good morning and welcome to the new subscribers reading this Sunday. I invite you to stay connected with us all week on Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. Better yet, join us for coffee (in person) to chat all things Vancouver tech this Tuesd... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Dairy-Free Cashew & Oat Milk Maker Plant Veda Unveils Vegan Probiotic Lassi | 3 Mins Read
Alternative dairy company Plant Veda has created vegan lassi (an Indian yogurt drink) from cashews and real fruits without cane sugar that contains gut-healthy probiotics in order to encourage more people to transition to a heal... |
| May 23, 2021 | For this company, raising money is as easy as Seed-A-B | The Sunday Briefing | Happy long weekend and welcome to the new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this Sunday. Make sure to stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the 1,000+ member Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse iOS/A... |
| Mar 28, 2021 | Just how big is Microsoft's investment in Vancouver talent? | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon and welcome to our new subscribers. Stay engaged all week by connecting with us on Twitter, LinkedIn and the Vancouver Tech club on the Clubhouse app.
If you’re not already on Clubhouse but want to be, please get in touch for... |
| Feb 21, 2021 | $100M To Boast About | The Sunday Briefing | Good afternoon, and welcome to the hundreds of new Vancouver Tech Journal subscribers reading this week. Today’s Sunday Briefing is just around 1,700 words, a 6-minute read. Enjoy.
-William (@notionport)
💰 Boast.ai, a financing platform tha... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Digital Technology Supercluster invests $2.5 million into new telehealth wound care project | The Digital Technology Supercluster is investing $2.5 million into a new $3.1 million initiative aimed to help wound patients access care virtually.
The project, called Telewound Care Canada, will use an artificial intelligence-powered mobi... |
| Jan 31, 2021 | Sunday Briefing | #123 | In a recent op/ed, Pender Ventures managing partner Maria Pacella asks, “What happens when the industry with the greatest potential for innovation doesn’t reflect the world it’s innovating for?”Welcome to the Vancouver Tech Journal’s Sunday... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | From Swift to Sparkcentral, a timeline of Hootsuite's acquisitions | Hootsuite’s new CEO, Tom Keiser
To kick off 2021, Hootsuite, the Vancouver-founded social media management firm, announced the acquisition of Sparkcentral, a messaging app-focused customer engagement platform that offers virtual agents and ... |
| Dec 13, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #120 | Welcome to this edition of the Vancouver Tech Journal Sunday Briefing, your bi-weekly roundup of Vancouver innovation stories and insights.
Last week, reporters explored the steep drop in local venture financing; the Vancouver company provi... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Despite limitations, 3D and AR are creating new realities in retail | Kate Wilson Contributor
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Kate Wilson is a Vancouver-based journalist. Previously technology editor at the Georgia Straight, Western Canada’s largest news and entertainment weekly, she has also written for The Independent, Be... |
| Nov 29, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #119 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Nov 1, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #117 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | Pirated Screeners of ‘Falling’ and ‘My Salinger Year’ Leak Online Early | Pirated copies of movies leak all year round, often ripped from DVDs, Blu-rays or online streaming platforms. That by itself is nothing special.
However, when the days are getting shorter, pirates start anticipating another release category... |
| Oct 4, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #115 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. It is written by William Johnson, an independent writer, communications advisor, and consultant based in Vanc... |
| Sep 18, 2020 | Research Finds That Being A Jerk Doesn’t Help You Get Ahead At Work | Despite the myth, being a selfish jerk does not get you ahead in the workplacegetty |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Global News Director Announces Resignation Following VICE News Investigation | Jill Krop, BC Regional Director of News, for Global News has announced she is stepping down a day after VICE News published an investigation on allegations of systemic racism at the company. Global News announced Thursday that Krop will ste... |
| Aug 23, 2020 | Sunday Briefing | #112 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
“Even in the COVID environment, B.C.’s tech companies continue to create ... |
| Aug 9, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #111 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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I (William) joined CSuite Content as a Senior Editorial... |
| Jul 19, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #110 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Foodee, Vancouver’s leading corporate catering tech startup, has closed $... |
| Jun 28, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #108 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Canadian venture-capital investment is down for the first and second quar... |
| Jun 22, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #107 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vistara Capital's head of marketing shares three practical job hu... |
| Jun 7, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #105 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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6 ways to view Shopify's "digital by default" declarat... |
| May 31, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #104 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
Researchers at UBC and Electronic Arts are testing recent advances in art... |
| May 17, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #102 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
After nine years at the helm, Richard Smith steps down as director of Van... |
| Feb 23, 2020 | The Sunday Briefing | #93 | The Vancouver Tech Journal brings you news, insight, opinions, and the lesser-known stories from Vancouver's innovation ecosystem. This is The Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Vancouver-based Semios, which has developed a platform for cr... |
| Feb 5, 2020 | How U.S. Companies Can Set Up Shop In Canada | Photo:Getty |
| Jan 6, 2020 | Canada Will Get Biggest Stadium For E-sports | wp_booster error:
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| Dec 15, 2019 | The Sunday Briefing | #86 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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“Those who have been following Vancouver’s tech scene know that the picturesque West Coast city h... |
| Nov 24, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #83 | The Vancouver Tech Journal spotlights the city's most important technology news and business stories. This is the Sunday Briefing. Enjoy.
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Fresh off of a $70m raise, Trulioo tapped Zac Cohen as COO. Cohen was formerly GM. “Under his lea... |
| Nov 11, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #82 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing, let’s take a moment to consider how we can have an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health.
Friends, its Movember, the month when men and women across the globe join together to raise awareness and fun... |
| Nov 7, 2019 | Corporate, public investments spur interest in Pacific Northwest startups | Dan Burgar Contributor
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Dan Burgar is President of the Vancouver VR/AR Association, where he has helped develop the city's ecosystem into the second largest VR/AR hub globally. He's also a co-founder at Shape Immersive, whic... |
| Nov 1, 2019 | Atlantic Salmon Federation: No lawsuit forthcoming on Newfoundland salmon farming regulations | Despite complaining of lax provincial oversight into Atlantic salmon farming operations in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Atlantic Salmon Federation is not planning to sue to push more regulation of the industry into federal hands.
Atlantic... |
| Oct 25, 2019 | Sara Davis Buechner, renowned transgender pianist, to perform with Boulder Chamber Orchestra | Sara Davis Buechner. Though her name is not particularly well-known, by many accounts it should be. Buechner, a classically trained pianist, has a functional repertoire of close to 100 pieces and has performed throughout the U.S. and across... |
| Oct 20, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #79 | After a Thanksgiving break, the Vancouver Tech Journal is back. In this week’s Sunday Briefing, read about the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s new CEO; BBTV’s CEO ideas for empowering female entrepreneurs; which former Canadian PM joined... |
| Sep 3, 2019 | 10 Reasons Why You Should Reconsider Eating Fish & Seafood | 108 2
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From biodiversity loss to more frequent natural disasters and rising global temperatures, our planet is now at an important crossroads. In the face of this global crisis, lessening our impact on the limited envi... |
| Aug 25, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #73 | Digital marketing platform Unbounce, which started in Gastown with just 6 people in 2009, now employs 182 people across two offices, in Vancouver and Berlin, and counts 15,000 customers worldwide, including The New York Times, Hootsuite, an... |
| Aug 12, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #72 | The University of Toronto’s Impact Centre has updated its 2019 Narwhal List, a report that highlights Canada’s fastest scaling private tech companies.
The Narwhal List ranks financially attractive firms by financial velocity. This metric is... |
| Jul 29, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #71 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: A profile of Modo’s environmentalist CEO; Chip Wilson says technology has made us lazy and fat; a local teenager created a smartphone system that helps detect whether someone might have Alzheimer's disease; a... |
| Jul 21, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #70 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Housing affordability is key to the technology industry’s success; our top FinTech startups according to the Digital Finance Institute; an esports documentary featured at CBC; and 21 other tech and business s... |
| Jul 15, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #69 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: We are so, so, so close to getting Uber and Lyft in Vancouver; five Vancouverites named to the Digital Finance Institute top 50 women in fintech; Amazon and UBC announced a new cloud innovation centre; and 14... |
| Jul 8, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #68 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Welcome to Silicon Vancouver; what Canada’s cannabis industry can learn from Mark Twain; and the $115 billion opportunity for tech companies in B.C.’s construction industry. Enjoy.
With companies like PostMat... |
| Jun 16, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #66 | In this week’s Sunday Briefing: Etihad Airways taps a Vancouver startup for an AI-crowdsourcing solution; UBC launched Canada’s first-ever blockchain training path; a new venture fund to improve Indigenous outcomes; Lululemon’s extraordinar... |
| May 26, 2019 | Vancouver Tech Journal | #64 | In this week's Sunday Briefing, learn about UBC and Huawei's precarious position, Shahrzad Rafati's new job, why B.C.'s ridesharing debate continues to rage on, and where $2.5B in early-stage company financing could come from.
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| May 3, 2019 | Study: 73% of Smart Tech Predictions Are Now Reality | People love predicting the future, and no one loves it more than the tech industry, which runs on innovation.
But our official guesses about the future can be a real mixed bag: Sure, we predicted personalized news feeds in 1988, but that wa... |
| Sep 7, 2017 | Fentanyl is Now in 81 Percent Of BC's Illegal Drug Overdose Deaths | Fentanyl was detected in 81 percent of illegal drug overdose deaths in BC from June to July, a 143 percent increase over the same time period last year.
According to the BC Coroners Service, fentanyl was found in 706 of the 876 suspected dr... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | These groups are trying to expose right-wing extremists in Canada | Alex gets home from work most nights and turns on his computer to scroll through a familiar roster of right-wing extremist sites and chatrooms.
He’s not a participant — he’s a covert agent, using aliases honed over years to sneak in and out... |
| Jan 22, 2016 | Canada Extends Olive Branch to First Nations Amid Escalating Pipeline Tensions | As a tense court case resumed Friday morning, the Trudeau government extended an olive branch to a First Nation that accused the federal government of failing to consult them on Kinder Morgan's controversial Trans Mountain pipeline.
The Tsl... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | CTV Inexplicably Invited a Squinty Potato on Air to Talk About Economic Policy | It's been a quiet, relatively blissful 14 months since Kevin O'Leary left the CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange and Dragon's Den in search of fame and even more fortune in the United States, where he's doing the exact same thing on ABC's DD r... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Politician Keen for Vancouver Citizens to Pay Taxes in Bitcoin | A Vancouver politician says the city should allow residents to pay their taxes, fines and fees using bitcoin.
Jason Lamarche won 37,286 votes in a recent council election, and now he says he would solicit bitcoin donations if he chose to ru... |
| Nov 18, 2012 | U.N. Complaint Over Failure to Prosecute George W. Bush Filed---Against Canada | No, you didn't read that wrong. And no, this isn't an episode of South Park.
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Canadian Centre for International Justice have filed a complaint with the Geneva-based U.N. Committee Against Torture-... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In breaking news, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi is confirmed dead. The New York Times has the story, a timeline of Qaddafi's regime, and an analysis of the Obama administration's war strategy. The Washington Post covers the story here and here... |
| Jan 29, 2011 | There Is No Way You Can Shut File-Sharing Down | Vancouver’s Straight published an interesting piece on file-sharing and BitTorrent, with some comments from isoHunt founder Gary Fung.
“File-sharing gives people the freedom to share what they want,” Fung said. “File-sharing is logically th... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Calling all cool tweeps, Twitter wannabes | Article content
If you’re wondering how to make Twitter work for you, the Cool Twitter Conference coming up this Friday in Vancouver will have a lot of answers.
Admittedly, I am among the speakers (Friday afternoon just after keynoter Steve... |
| Jan 20, 2009 | Roundup: IBM’s good fourth quarter, more inauguration coverage, possible trouble for Intel | IBM had a good fourth quarter — The now-diversified hardware maker posted net income of $4.4 billion for last quarter, up 12 percent from Q4 of 2007. Revenue decreased just 1 percent after adjusting for currency changes. The company expects... |
| Top Destinations Brazilians go to Study English Abroad | There’s no better way to learn a language than immersing yourself into a culture you know nothing about.
Study english abroad is a dream to millions of people around the world. There’s no doubt this is the most efficient way to kick-start y... |
