Best Buy Canada recently announced the winners of its first-ever Teen Tech Grants and Teen Tech Teams initiatives. The two initiatives represent elements of Best Buy’s newly launched Teen Tech For Tomorrow program. Through the program, 15 winning secondary schools and robotics teams will be provided grants aimed to improve access to technology for Canadian […]
Vancouver Remains Heavy Anchor for Game Development in Canada: Report
The video game industry remains a vital contributor to Canada’s economy, a new report has affirmed, counting more than 800 studios employing a combined 34,000 people who contribute over $5 billion toward the nation’s GDP. While noting that there was a decrease in employment of roughly 3% since 2021, the report—titled “Canada’s Video Game Industry: […]
Following Disastrous Game Launch, Phoenix Labs Axes ‘Majority’ of Staff
Phoenix Labs has terminated a “majority” of its employees, the B.C. company revealed this week. The Vancouver-based game studio, creator of the Dauntless franchise, “made the tough decision to part ways with the majority of the studio as part of unfortunate but necessary changes to our operations,” according to a post online. The studio once […]
Svante to Help Keep Sports Like Hockey, Skating Cool in a Warmer World
Svante Technologies unveiled this week a collaboration with Speed Skating Canada. Headquartered in Vancouver, Svante is a carbon capture and removal solutions provider that makes nano-engineered filters and modular machines that capture and remove CO2 from industrial emissions. Svante is partnering with Speed Skating Canada on a climate change awareness and education campaign, dubbed “Save the […]
Government Brings Fast Internet to Over 1,000 Remote Households in B.C.
More remote communities throughout British Columbia have been connected to reliable high-speed internet, the provincial government recently announced. The move to power Lax Kw’alaams off the northwestern coast of B.C., as well as Nuxalk Nation, Bella Coola, and Hagensborg along the central coast, comes as part of “an essential step in our commitment to connect […]
Human in Motion Garners Accolades in Las Vegas for Robotics Innovation
Among those making a splash in British Columbia’s robotics scene is Human in Motion out of Vancouver. The local firm also made a splash in Las Vegas at the self-proclaimed “Most Powerful Tech Event in the World”—the annual Consumer Electronics Show. In a recent statement, Human in Motion said that it “received widespread recognition from […]
Serial Entrepreneur Pivots from Tech Space with Eye on Cross-Canada Trek
Geordie Rose is taking a break from tech to do a solo walk across Canada. Rose is a longstanding anchor of British Columbia’s tech scene. For example, he cofounded quantum computing innovator D-Wave Systems in Burnaby back in 1999, a local entity still active nearly three decades later. More recently, Rose was known as the […]
Real Estate Software Firm Bolsters Suite of Tech Tools for Institutional Landlords
A Vancouver-based software-as-a-service company targeting the real estate industry is starting off the new year by bolstering its flagship offering. The publicly traded Real Estate Software as a Service, or RESAAS, announced this month an expansion of its Commercial Data Exchange to include support for the Retail Asset Class. For institutional landlords managing extensive retail […]
Ultrasound Tech Innovator Clarius Advances Medical Imaging App with Addition of AI
Clarius Mobile Health, maker of high-definition handheld ultrasound technology, unveiled new ultrasound innovations this week, including enterprise software designed to manage a fleet of ultrasound scanners, as well as tools powered by artificial intelligence. Available immediately, the updated Clarius ultrasound app improves workflow, streamlines billing, and makes handheld ultrasound easier to learn and use, according […]
DIGITAL Powers Investment to Accelerate Commercial Launch of B.C.-Made Quantum Tech
Our nation’s official Global Innovation Cluster for digital technologies this week announced a slew of co-investments aimed at supporting the commercialization and adoption of Canadian-made quantum technologies, including those from British Columbia. Leveraging funding from Canada’s National Quantum Strategy as well as industry partners, these investments support the piloting of quantum solutions “in environments where […]