Toronto stock exchange (including Montreal), TMX, had to close early on Friday due to some technical glitches. All trading including stocks and bonds had to be terminated. “Internal technical issue” was behind this shut down that had to stop all the exchanges trading at 1:59pm. UPDATE 4 – TMX has decided to shut down all … Continue reading Toronto Stock Exchange Crashes
Hey fellow Canadians, no worries about recently announcement by Amazon, about their Prime Membership. Fee hike won’t affect members living north of the border. Amazon is raising prices by $2 USD from $10.99 to $12.99 for their US subscribers starting immediately and will be updated on their next bill cycle. Student members fee will only … Continue reading Amazon Raises Prime Membership by $2 a Month in the US, not in Canada
Alek Minassian, a Toronto mobile developer and a student, rented out a van, and drove it down a busy Toronto street running over and killing 10 people and injuring multiple others. Noone knows yet the motive for his actions, but all we know is that multiple people are killed and injured. So what do we … Continue reading Toronto Mobile App Developer Kills 10 People in North Toronto
March was a quieter month with fewer deals going on but there were still quite a few deals taking place. The notable deals came from Toronto ecobee raising $80m and Vancouver hootsuite raising $65m. Even an interesting concept Cryptokitties game developed in Vancouver, where you breed, raise and sell cats, got $12m in funding. Most … Continue reading Money Raised & Companies Acquired – Canadian 2018 March Edition
We found out that Amazon officials came to Toronto few weeks ago and stayed for 2 days. They asked questions about health care and the tech sector. Julia Sakas , Toronto Global representative said: “They were very interested in hearing more about our tech sector and the benefits that come from our publicly funded health care … Continue reading Amazon HQ2 officials Visit Toronto
Facebook has been in a hot seat recently due to exposure of between 50 million and 87 million Facebook user profiles without the users’ consent. Mark did a good job last few days showing up at US congress and answering most of their questions. Facebook stock regained over $30 billion back. Facebook had important questions … Continue reading 5 Most Bizarre Questions Congress Asked Zuckerberg
Four of Canadian universities made it to TOP 100 list compiled by The Times Higher Education. This is their 14th edition. This time they have analyzed data from 1,000 universities from 77 countries. A post shared by @sincerelylolalovesto on Apr 8, 2018 at 5:51am PDT Canadian universities in the Top 100 University of Toronto (Ranked … Continue reading Four Canadian Universities Made Top 100 List of Best Universities
