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Best Buy Canada teamed up with nine communities in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto to help collect and recycle electronic waste as part of the Tech it Away program this year. As a result of this one-day event, the stores collected more than 42,000 pounds of e-waste from local residents, with TV and computer monitors making up the majority of items returned. Read the rest of this entry »

SUTUS, a Vancouver-based technology specialist for the pizza franchise industry today announced it has partnered with the American Pizza Community, a coalition of America’s foremost pizza companies, to highlight the importance of the pizza industry within American communities and promote policies that permit continued industry success. Read the rest of this entry »

Fusebill, a Kanata-based high-growth provider of automated billing systems for subscription based businesses, has announced today that Matt Hall and Joseph A. Nour, have joined the board of directors. Mr. Nour will serve as Chairman of the Board. Read the rest of this entry »

Round 13 Capital is excited to announce the launch of Canada’s first founders-driven fund that will provide growth capital to fast-growing startups looking to scale and compete globally. Round 13 will be financed by successful entrepreneurs who have started, operated and sold companies. The founders’ concept has generated superior returns in the U.S., and Round 13 is excited to bring it to Canada. Round 13’s founders have generated approximately $2.5 billion of wealth. Read the rest of this entry »

At a technology stakeholders’ event hosted yesterday in Kitchener-Waterloo, the Alpha Exchange unveiled its White Paper about “Building Connections and Fixing the Funding Challenge to Kick-Start Canada’s Technology Sector“, which has underperformed since the internet bubble burst twelve years ago, more so than the technology sectors of some other countries such as the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

California-based cloud communications company Twilio and SendGrid, a Colorado-based email deliverability company, have announced the inaugural DOer Express, a bus for entrepreneurs en route to the International Startup Festival in Montreal. The DOer Express, in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Microsoft, will be leaving from New York City on July 11, and will transport 46 early stage startup founders while offering mentoring from top entrepreneurs, members of the startup community and technical advisors, such as Craig Kitterman, Technical Product Manager on the Windows Azure team at Microsoft. Startups can apply for a free spot on the bus online.  Read the rest of this entry »

PopCap Games has announced the results of its third survey of mobile games consumption which found an overall increase in the mobile games market, a broadening audience, new opportunities unlocked through tablets and new developments in play and spending habits. Read the rest of this entry »

Spongelab Interactive is  celebrating the first anniversary of Spongelab.com, the free online science education platform that has seen worldwide use and critical acclaim. Since launching last June, the Spongelab platform has reached impressive milestones. Spongelab.com is rapidly growing into a global science community full of educational multimedia, complete with online teaching tools and a detailed graphic data-tracking system. Read the rest of this entry »

Canadian toy manufacturer Round 5 Corporation (Round 5) in partnership with licensing agents Studio Licensing Inc and Established Brands Inc., announces multi-year exclusive licensing agreement to manufacture and produce certain categories of toys under the popular Cut The Rope brand. Read the rest of this entry »

iPipeline®, a Pennsylvania-based on-demand software developer that supports marketing, selling, and processing solutions for the nation’s top insurance carriers, distributors and agents, today announced the appointment of Jeff Houston, Canadian Insurance Veteran, to the position of Director of Business Development, Canada. Read the rest of this entry »