Technology

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

An annual gala recognizing Vancouver Island’s high-tech leaders looked more like a party in Rio than an awards ceremony for techies last week, when hundreds of garishly dressed dancers organized by Tom and Gary’s Decentralized Dance Party turned up to add a DayGlo vibrancy to the VIATeC Technology Awards on June 20.

Vancouver-based Calyx Bio-Ventures Inc. (TSX-V:CYX) has a renewable fuel product that is the most similar to petroleum-derived fuels compared with other renewable fuels, according to a Coordinating Research Council (CRC) study, Calyx announced this morning.

Nominations for PwC's awards celebrating dynamic technology startups are now open.

Twitter plans to create a "global centre of excellence" in Vancouver, according to a job posting on its website.

Slow-loading and poorly optimized websites are costing retailers an estimated $600 million in lost e-commerce, according to a new study by Vancouver’s Mobify.

Elastic Path Software Inc., a Vancouver digital commerce company that makes software used by Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) and Virgin Media Inc. (Nasdaq:VMED), has secured $8 million in debt financing from Wellington Financial LP.

Rugged smartphone maker Adaia is one of eight companies formed by talent displaced when cellphone giant closed its Burnaby division