Technology

Whistler, British Columbia, has won an award from Google Canada recognizing it as one of Canada's top five online business communities.

New accelerator launched to help clean-tech startups tap $3 trillion global market

Vancouver junior mine company Alix Resources Corp. (TSX-V:AIX) is planning to diversify by staking a claim in the emerging cryptocurrency space with a Bitcoin exchange.

Telus (TSX:T) turned in solid third-quarter earnings based in part on low customer churn and growth in its wireless business – growth that the company said will help it continue to invest in broadband and cellular networks – the telecom giant announced November 8.

Canada’s telecom ombudsman has had to beef up staff to handle an ever-increasing number of disputes over phone bills, wireless contracts and Internet services.

Vancouver-based Absolute Software (TSX:ABT) has inked a four-year deal worth US$975,000 with an undisclosed client in the Asia-Pacific region, the data protection firm announced November 6.

With Facebook and Amazon hiring hundreds of staff in Vancouver, even HootSuite is having a tough time finding qualified employees

I bet you have heard this story: Canada’s largest company by market capitalization in May 2008 is now a hollow shell of its former self, shedding customers and employees and having sales crumble from $21 billion to $8 billion in three disastrous years.

A Vancouver life sciences company that specializes in niche therapies is hoping to get Health Canada’s approval to start breeding and selling maggots to Canadian hospitals for cleaning wounds.

The US$4.7 billion deal announced in September that would have seen BlackBerry bought out by a consortium led by Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TSX: FFH) has fallen through, with Fairfax instead leading a group of investors in a US$1 billion investment in debentures.