Technology

Andrew Wilkinson, a lawyer who trained as a physician, says B.C. is working to create equal entrepreneurial opportunities for all tech sectors

UrtheCast one of four recent Canadian tech IPOs helping to raise hopes for sector’s resurgence

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.