Tags: Canada

Costa Rican startup Natural Sins helps fight obesity by making snacks made of fruit and vegetables

San Jose, Costa Rica-based healthy food startup Natural Sins sells baked snacks made of real fruits and vegetables in a bid to help fight obesity.


Backstreet Boys to hit North America, Avril Lavigne to guest in BSB concerts

The Backstreet Boys has decided to extend its concert leg and come back to North America as announced in Good Morning America.

La Caisse invests $40M in Canadian consultancy firm WSP Global

Montreal, Canada-based pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (La Caisse) invested $40 million to support the growth of Quebec-based professional services firm WSP Global, formerly Genivar, despite damaging issues about the company.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford tweets wrong daylight saving info, gets bashed on Twitter

Daylight Saving Time has once again become a trending topic on Twitter and so did Mayor Rob Ford of Toronto after the incorrect tweet he sent out to his followers informing them of Daylight Saving, reported TIME.


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Toronto, Canada-based accelerator Bitcoin Decentral launched Bitcoin Decentral Accerate, the first Bitcoin startup accelerator in the world, which is now accepting online applications from startups.
The government of Quebec approved a $10-million equity investment in Montreal, Canada-based alumina producer Orbite Alumniae Inc, with the funds coming from the government's financing arm Investissement Quebec.
Dublin, Ireland-based over-the-counter (OTC) drug manufacturer Perrigo Company PLC picked up a set of products being marketed in Australia and New Zealand from South African firm Aspen Global Inc in a $51-million cash deal.
Councillors of the city of Kitchener in Ontario, Canada have agreed to shell out $1 million for the next five years to help owners of underused spaces turn their properties into a new landing pad fro startups just out from incubators.
Waterloo, Canada-based software giant OpenText invested $1 million to open a data center in Sydney, Australia, to help companies deal with problems centered on enterprise data.
Waterloo, Canada-based parcel pickup startup BufferBox is shutting down its standalone service in the US and Canada beginning March 31 to integrate it into Google Shopping products such as Google Shopping Express.
Toronto, Canada-based personalized comic strip app Bitstrips is raising $15 million in a Series B funding round reportedly led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to address growth and scaling issues.
Andrew Bocking, the Executive Vice President of BBM, exited Ontario, Canada-based smartphone and enterprise software maker BlackBerry, with the said division to be folded into Global Enterprise Solutions under the leadership of John Sims.
Massachusetts, US-based enterprise solutions software provider quadrant Software bought Chicago-based Business Computer Design (BCD) Int'l and its British Columbia, Canada-based business partner ExcelSystems Software Development Inc (ESDI) for an undisclosed sum.
Tech giant Apple has cleared the App Store of all Bitcoin mobile wallet apps by pulling Blockchain from the store on Wednesday without a clear explanation for the move, but retained other non-wallet Bitcoin apps in the said store.
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