As restaurants drop mask requirements and open to full capacity, the industry is busy. Increasingly restaurants are looking to tech solutions to streamline the customer experience and optimize worker productivity. Squirrel Systems announced a new, cloud-based edition of its point-of-sale solution at the recent National Restaurant Association trade-show in Chicago. The Vancouver-based company says its […]
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Unbounce Bolsters Executive Team with Experience for Next Phase of Growth
Unbounce this week welcomed three new executives to its team as the Vancouver-based leader in landing page and conversion intelligence software looks to support what it describes as its “next phase of growth.” Pete Housley, Darby Sieben, and Saba El-Hilo are taking on leadership roles in marketing, product and engineering respectively. The executive team upgrade […]
Is Electronic Arts Up For Grabs?
Electronic Arts may be seeking an acquisition, recent rumours indicate. Executives at the Burnaby-based game development studio have allegedly held talks with companies such as Apple, Amazon, and Walt Disney. The topic of discussion? A possible merger or takeover, a report from Puck News suggests. Apple and the other “potential suitors” declined to comment, but EA’s […]
Trainerize Reaches Revenue Milestone as Cofounder Takes on New Role
Founded in 2008, Trainerize provides fitness software to trainers, coaches, and gyms. In 2020, the BC company and its team of 30 was acquired by global fitness technology provider ABC Fitness Solutions. Today, the company announced that it has cracked $20 million in annually recurring revenue, a major milestone for the Vancouver-born fitness disruptor. Their next […]
YAMO Reimagines Job Market in Canada as Vancouver Animation Industry Heats Up
Long known as “Hollywood North,” the Vancouver region of BC has been intimately involved the movies and television industry for decades now. The current boom is in animation work. Giants like Walt Disney and Double Negative are currently establishing firm footholds in the city. Others such as Sony Picture Imageworks and WildBrain are already here, […]
Victoria Ecommerce Startup Offers Custom Socks, Caps for Canadians
A Victoria startup is aiming to change the sock game. In an industry dominated by t-shirts, Custom Labs wants to carve out a niche of custom socks with a turnaround time of three weeks. The e-commerce fledgling uses Outway performance socks, which it claims are inexpensive, customizable, and “guaranteed to delight any user.” Custom Labs says […]
GenXys Tapped to Accelerate Precision Medicine Program for Flexsus
GenXys Health Care Systems recently finalized another customer deal to advance precision medicine initiatives. Vancouver-based GenXys, a global leader in precision prescribing software with embedded pharmacogenetic data, will work with Ohio-based Flexsus, the laboratory division of FlexHealth. “The GenXys software suite will allow Flexsus to offer unparalleled services to its customers and improve patient safety and […]
TELUS to Invest $17 Billion in BC, Help Regions Recover from Flooding and Fire
Telus announced this week a $17 billion investment in BC. The investment will build and upgrade network infrastructure, operations, and spectrum across the province of British Columbia. It will be spread across four years and is part of a broader $70 billion investment across Canada over the same time span. “This generational investment in British […]
Vancouver’s Tasktop Acquired by Austin’s Planview
One year after raising a USD $100 million strategic investment led by San Francisco’s Sumeru Equity Partners, Vancouver’s Tasktop has been acquired by Austin’s Planview, a global leader in Portfolio Management and Work Management. “Connecting Planview’s leadership in enterprise Agile and strategic portfolio management with Tasktop’s leadership in VSM is a game-changing combination that expands the […]
Boris Wertz Gives Bitcoin to Charity in First Crypto Donation on CanadaHelps Platform
Canada’s largest platform for donating and fundraising online today announced that it now accepts donations of cryptocurrency in support of any of Canada’s 86,000 registered charities. CanadaHelps says that charities are facing “unprecedented demand and declining donation revenue,” and that the new service is in response to growing interest “from both charities and younger donors.” […]