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Wireless Industry Partnership has organized WIP Jam hackathon for past seven years

Vancouver-based Coastal Contacts has announced that it is planning to launch a line of exclusive eyeglass frames, which will be compatible with wearable technology such as Google Glass, Samsung Gear Glass and others, according to technology blog Techvibes. Coastal.com is best known as Clearly Contacts in Canada.

B.C. clean-tech companies hoping to get in front of some of America’s top venture capitalists may want to try to get themselves nominated for the 2014 Global Cleantech 100 awards.

Ottawa has raised a whopping $5.27 billion through the sale of wireless spectrum – contrary to predictions of analysts who said the absence of a large foreign player would devalue the resource – and may well be on its way achieving its goal of seeing a fourth national wireless carrier in Quebec's Videotron.

Vancouver’s Network Hub has created an interactive map that will allow freelancers and remote workers to locate physical workspaces around the world, even when on the road.

After a bit of a bumpy start, the two Earth-sensing cameras made by UrtheCast Corp (TSX:UR) that have been set up on the International Space Station (ISS) have passed initial testing.

Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX-V:AUP), a Victoria-based biotech whose team includes the founders of British Columbia’s most successful biopharmaceutical companies – Aspreva Pharmaceuticals – has secured $56 million in private placements.

Axine Water Technologies, a Vancouver-based developer of industrial wastewater treatment methods, has secured $5.6 million in venture funding after closing a series A financing round.

Digital currency lovers will get the chance to rub elbows with fellow enthusiasts this weekend as Vancouver plays hosts to a series of Bitcoin events.

The fight against skin cancer is enlisting the help of smartphones to monitor suspicious moles thanks to a Simon Fraser University grad's venture idea.