Since 2015 Ottawa’s Rewind has been on a mission to help businesses protect their SaaS and cloud data. The Rewind platform enables companies to back up, restore, and copy the critical data that drives their business. Today Rewind closed a $19 million Series A round of financing as it looks to capitalize on and expand […]
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AWS & BlackBerry Join Forces For New Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform
Amazon Web Services and Ottawa-headquartered BlackBerry have announced a multi-year, global agreement to develop and market BlackBerry’s Intelligent Vehicle Data Platform, IVY. BlackBerry IVY is a scalable, cloud-connected software platform that will allow automakers to provide a consistent and secure way to read vehicle sensor data, normalize it, and create actionable insights from that data […]
Ottawa’s Kanata North Launches Platform To Grow Local Tech Cluster
The Kanata North Business Association has launched a new online platform designed with job seekers in mind. Discover Technata is a global talent attraction platform consisting of Virtual Career Fairs, Talent Roadshows and a state of the art Job Board. The new site promises to connect job seekers with more than 540 companies in Canada’s largest technology park with thousands of […]
Gigamon Expands International Footprint with New R&D Location in Ottawa
Silicon Valley’s Gigamon has announced plans to expand its international footprint with the addition of its fourth tech hub in Ottawa. Gigamon is a worldwide leader in network visibility, analytics, threat detection and response. They are the first company to deliver unified network visibility and analytics on all information-in-transit, from raw packets to apps, across […]
Shopify Moves To ‘Digital By Default’ – CEO Declares ‘Office Centricity is Over’
Known historically for their flexible working arrangements, the COVID-19 crisis has pushed Shopify further in that direction. Today CEO Tobi Lutke announced on Twitter that Shopify is now a digital by default company. “We will keep our offices closed until 2021 so that we can rework them for this new reality. And after that, most […]
Shopify And Google Asking Employees To Work From Home
A growing number of Canadian tech companies are asking employees to work from home in an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Home-grown e-commerce company Shopify and search engine giant Google are asking employees in Canada to work from home to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “As COVID-19 continues to […]
This Company Hired Someone Over Twitter Based on Starcraft Skill
The original vision of Shopify, the story goes, was a shop. Before the company adopted that name, it was called Snowdevil. And Snowdevil was an online store selling snowboards. That is a big leap to Shopify as a full-service e-commerce platform—especially when you consider the fact that the founders didn’t even initially plan to create […]