Technology

Vancouver’s Hootsuite has acquired uberVU, an American company that specializes in social media analytics for business.

If you are worried about losing years of family memories to video tape decay, London Drugs has a new service that will digitize it for you – even Betamax – and store it on DVD and online.

Conservative Joy Smith’s proposed legislation that would force Canadian Internet providers to limit public access to websites could be expensive for smaller providers

Vancouver's BuildDirect – which is well on its way to becoming the Amazon of home building products – has secured $30 million in series B financing and plans to add 300 new employees this year to its headcount.

Google Inc. (Nasdq:GOOG) has had its knuckles rapped by Canada's privacy commissioner for targeting a Canadian with sleep apnea with ads for sleep aid cures.

This promises to be the year of the phablet, according to Deloitte's annual Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) report, which is good news for mobile app developers in Vancouver.

Gauge Mobile, a Vancouver startup that has developed near-field communication applications for marketing, has been acquired by another Canadian startup – Juice Mobile.

RepliCel Life Sciences Inc., a Vancouver company that has been developing a cure for baldness, has graduated from the OTCBB (over the counter bulletin board) to the TSX Venture exchange.

Kwantlen Polytechnic University is launching a new course in the fall to train people for a dream job: brewing beer.

Sauder business school program designed to help entrepreneurs build social ventures