Waterloo as you know is dubbed as Silicon Valley of the North. With over 1,200 new ventures for a population of around 600,000 is the region that has the highest startup density of any area globally. That is a good thing – but a lot of times Waterloo startup community is connected tightly with Toronto area … Continue reading Fly from Toronto to Waterloo in 18 minutes: Silicon Valley North United
Canadian Province of Quebec is the first in North America to go ahead with banning veils on public transit and government institutions. This is the newly introduced Bill 62 that will prevent you from covering your face in spaces that are controlled by the government. Quebec is the first place in North America where it … Continue reading Quebec to Ban Women With Face Veils And How It Will Affect Tech
The World Economic Forum just released their 25 most high tech cities in the world. Three Canadian cities below made the cut: Montreal was #18, Vancouver #14 and Toronto, of course, is #9. World Forum has used 10 different criteria to generate their list: number of patents filed per capita, startups, tech venture capitalists, ranking in … Continue reading 3 Canadian Cities among 25 Most High-Tech Cities in the World
Google has made it official. They (Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s Alphabet) will be building internet city downtown Toronto along the lake front. This is amazing news for the city of Toronto, as they have been selected from half dozen other cities all over the world that were being considered for the Google City of … Continue reading Google To Toronto: We Will Build City of The Future Together
Fluent.ai is a disruptive speech recognition startup based in Montreal, Canada. We have sat down with CEO Niraj Bhargava to get some answers. So what are you guys all about? We are developing cutting-edge deep-learning techniques to enable acoustic-only speech recognition technology capable of running offline on-device without requiring a cloud connection. By associating speech to … Continue reading Montreal Fluent.ai Startup Helping with Speech Recognition
After facing some bad publicity in Canada, Netflix went full force to “set the record straight” on their investment into Canada. In case you missed it Netflix has agreed to $500m investment over next 5 years into Canada. Also Province of Quebec decided that they will charge taxes on Netflix whether it has offices in … Continue reading Netflix To Set The Record Straight on Canada
Every year feedSpot publishes Top Blog lists in different countries. This year PlanetWeb has made the list even though we have only been operational for less than 9 months. This is the comprehensive list of best Canadian Technology blogs on the internet. The Best Canadian Technology blogs are picked from thousands of top Canadian Technology … Continue reading PlanetWeb.ca Among Top 40 Canadian Tech Blogs
