Technology

Vancouver-based tech firm HootSuite has developed a social media tracker to publish real-time social media updates about Australia’s upcoming federal election.

Bell (TSX:BCE), Rogers (TSX:RCI.A) and Telus (TSX:T) – Canada's "Big Three" cellphone providers – filed a motion in the Federal Court of Appeals July 2 to delay new mobile guidelines outlined by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) last month.

Vancouver's EnWave Corp. (TSX-V:ENW) has signed a royalty-bearing commercial licence with Fortune 500 company Hormel Foods Corp., EnWave announced this morning.

University partners with Alpha Technologies and Corvus Energy in $5 million distributed-stored-power initiative

Investment in clean-technology sector is down, but Vancouver company profiting from market demand for water pollution solutions

Westport Innovations Inc. (TSX:WPT; Nasdaq:WPRT) announced June 28 that it will buy clean-energy company BAF Technologies Inc. and its subsidiary, ServoTech Engineering, Inc., from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. for $25 million in stock.

Corporate espionage threats increased via Internet industrial-infrastructure access

Vancouverites who have not yet downloaded a QR code scanner onto their smartphones might want to do so, if they plan to be on the pedestrianized Granville and Robson Streets this summer for VIVA Vancouver.

Vancouver online entertainment company BroadbandTV announced June 26 that it has received a $36 million investment from European entertainment giant RTL Group in exchange for a 51% shareholding in the company.

Vancouver-based company is the second local biotech this year to face bankruptcy as sector’s venture capital woes continue