Technology

Social Media Week organizers have landed ING Direct as the second annual event's title sponsor along with $20,000 in funding. The festival (#smwvan) runs September 24 through 28 and aims to foster discussion of how social media is evolving. The B.C.

Cloud-based news platform SendtoNews.com announced September 13 that it has closed $3 million in financing from a B.C. investment group headed by RevenueWire Inc. cofounders Don Wharton and Elton, Adrian and Myron Pereira.

Genome BC has agreed to fund research by Vancouver biotechnology company Indel Therapeutics Inc. to combat drug-resistant pathogens. The study is expected to take up to 18 months, employ at least three people and likely cost less than $1 million.

The BC Supreme Court has backed Telus (TSX:T) in the latest part of its protracted battle with Mason Capital Management LLC.

Despite a prolonged funding drought, some small B.C. biotechs continue to thrive

Support workers at Simon Fraser University will take a strike vote between September 25 and 27 at the university’s three campuses after two years of talks have failed to result in a new collective agreement.

Vancouver startup HootSuite announced this morning it has acquired San Francisco-based Seesmic, a social media management platform not unlike its own. The companies share many similarities and were both founded four years ago.

A company that uses pheromones to fight bedbugs and a startup that lets anyone create a comic strip online are among this year's finalists in the BC Innovation Council's annual New Ventures BC competition. Vancouver's semiosBIO Technologies Inc.

In the latest twist in its shareholder saga, Telus Corp. (TSX-T) is seeking a court order to thwart New York hedge fund Mason Capital’s attempt to hold a shareholder meeting.

UBC grad and his company are harnessing smartphone advertising potential