Shopify has tapped industry veteran Cathy Polinsky as the company’s new vice president of engineering as it plans to double the size of its engineering team this year. As the newest senior leader on Shopify’s engineering team, Polinsky will lead Shopify’s efforts to build its e-commerce infrastructure and will lead the company’s efforts to double […]
Nintendo To Acquire Next Level Games
Nintendo is acquiring Vancouver game developer Next Level Games, a studio that has worked on some of the company’s major franchises. Next Level is already a second-party partner, meaning it only makes games for Nintendo platforms, but Nintendo says the acquisition will help secure internal development resources and boost collaboration. Next Level is best known […]
SFU Researchers Developing Cellular Service For Space Missions To The Moon
Think getting good cellular service on Earth is difficult? Try doing it on the moon or Mars. A team of Simon Fraser University researchers is working hard to make LTE/4G and Wi-Fi communications systems on the moon a reality by 2022. A group of nations is presently working on humans’ return to the surface of […]
mimik Partners With IBM To Advance Edge Computing
Vancouver’s mimik technology is collaborating with IBM to build AI-enabled collaborative workflow solutions designed to help accelerate automation and digital transformation across manufacturing, retail, IoT and healthcare. mimik’s hybrid edgeCloud platform transforms cloud applications from a fixed client-server architecture – where server functionality is limited to servers in data centers and gateways – to a […]
Traction Guest Launches Vaccine Attestation Registry To Accelerate Return-to-Work
Traction Guest has launched a vaccine attestation registry tool for businesses. Available immediately, the tool enables organizations to incorporate digital COVID-19 vaccination records into their screening and onsite entry process for workers and visitors. Last month Traction Guest introduced a Return-to-Work Solution that streamlines the return of employees and essential visitors to the physical workplace […]
Thinkific Crosses 100 Million Online Courses Taken on its Platform
Vancouver’s Thinkific announced today that it has had over 100 million courses taken through it’s platform with over 63 million courses taken in 2020 alone. The latest milestone comes at the end of an exceptional growth year for the online course platform that included a $22 million growth financing round led by Rhino Ventures. Thinkific […]
Nano One Enters into Agreement with Major Global Automotive Company
Vancouver’s Nano One has entered into a cathode evaluation and benchmark agreement with an American-based multinational auto manufacturer to jointly evaluate Nano One’s cathode materials for automotive lithium ion batteries. CEO Dan Blondal called the manufacturer a “major global EV leader” however financial compensation towards for the project remains confidential. “The goal of this project […]
Routific Sees Unprecedented Growth Amid Pandemic-Driven Demand Surges
Driven by changing consumer habits amid the pandemic, Vancouver’s Routific announced is experiencing unprecedented growth in 2020. Today the route planning and delivery management platform announced that they’ve experienced 240% growth this year. Routific empowers small businesses to deliver more goods with fewer vehicles in less time, helping them stay afloat as Amazon and big […]
Whistler Search & Rescue to Use VodaSafe’s AquaEye To Reduce Drowning Recovery Time
Last week Vancouver’s VodaSafe donated an AquaEye®, the world’s first hand-held scanning sonar device for water-based search and rescue, to Whistler Search and Rescue. The AquaEye unit will be used to help Whistler Fire’s firefighters and Whistler Search and Rescue rescue and recover missing persons from Whistler’s bodies of water. “Our first-of-its-kind technology is helping […]
TraceSafe to Provide Contact Tracing at the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championships
Vancouver’s Tracesafe will be the exclusive and official contact tracing partner of the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship in Edmonton. TraceSafe is a full suite of real-time location management services and contact tracing solutions enabled through advanced low power Bluetooth beacons and enterprise cloud management. Powered by the TELUS, TraceSafe will provide staff members and […]