Description: Hate waiting for delivery of your online purchases? Well now there’s Zipments.ca, who cater to your delivery with personalized couriers. Source: Techvibes Date: February 7, 2014 Admit it, our busy schedules stop us from getting stuff done (I know—the irony!). The solution: We share resources and help each other. Vancouver-based Zipments.ca is making it happen with a selected group… Read more »
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Are Mobile Apps Now a Requirement for Businesses?
Description: Mobile Apps are they way of the future for almost all businesses. They encourage impulse purchases and without one, your business may be losing out on potential sales. Source: Techvibes Date: February 6, 2014 How’s your business’s mobile app doing? Don’t have one? Turns out you could be leaving significant money on the table. Customers now… Read more »
A Room with a SKU: SuiteQ Lets You Design a Room and Buy the Contents
Description: A new app, SuiteQ allows you to set up a room with furniture to your liking – and then buy the products. Source: Techvibes Date: January 24, 2014 Every so often, I see start-up companies rehashing an idea that’s been done to death many, many times before, either because they haven’t done their market… Read more »
The 22-year-old Redefining Mobile Advertising
Description: Brian Wong, Co-Founder and CEO of Kiip, hatched a new strategy to connect brands with consumers by offering rewards for virtual achievements. Source: Forbes Date: January 17, 2014 Kiip, a mobile advertising company, has developed a way to cash-in on those little moments consumers have everyday through various apps, and reward them ever so subtly. Watch… Read more »
CrunchWeek: Instagram Debuts Messaging, Twitter’s Blocking Debacle, Snapchat Banks $50M
Description: Three Tech Crunch Writers get together and discuss the week’s hot tech topics including stories on Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat. Source: Tech Crunch Date: December , 2013 The launch of Instagram’s first ever messaging feature called Instagram Direct and the impressive new usage figures announced by Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, Twitter changing how its… Read more »
Why Canada Is a Testing Ground for Apps
Description: Start-up companies have found a perfect testing ground for their new apps in Canada. With the large (but not too large) size of the country, friendly and honest people and a tech savvy marketplace, Canada is the perfect country to launch new ideas. Source: Mashable Date: November 22, 2013 Developers worldwide are using Canada as… Read more »
Ottawa’s Nuvyyo Unveils Tablo, Which Aims to Make Cord-cutting Easier Than Ever
Description: Canadian company Nuvyyo claims they are changing television watching with their new device which will supposedly make mobile viewing that much easier. Source: TechVibes Date: November 14th, 2013 A Canadian company aiming to revolutionize the home media experience hopes to help cord-cutters access high-definition television content over the air. Nuvyyo this week unveiled a new product called… Read more »
Pet-Friendly Tech Start-up Explodes On Kickstarter
Description: Your days of wondering what your pets are up to while your not there are over. Introducing Petcube – a small aluminum and glass cube that is equipped with a camera, a speaker, wi-fi capability and a laser pointer that can be controlled remotely through the use of a smartphone. Source: Forbes Date: October 24, 2013… Read more »
Focusing On Ecommerce, Olapic Gives Retailers Access To Customer Behavior Across Its Platform
Description: New York based start-up Olapic switches its focus from media companies and takes on online retailers giving them access to consumer trends. This information is based on following hashtags of products on posts from various social media sites. Source: Techcrunch Date: October 17, 2013 With beauty vloggers showing off their cosmetics hauls on YouTube, and… Read more »
Higher education plc: cheating in the marketplace of ideas
Description: More than half of students in the United States admit to cheating during college. Students today can easily copy work from online data bases or even purchase essays written on their behalf. But are students the only ones to blame for this trend? Source: The Guardian Date: October 5th, 2012 More than half of… Read more »
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