LuxeYard, a site selling high-end home decor products, is launching Tuesday. Yes, it’s technically another flash sales site. But what’s interesting about LuxeYard is that it’s doing things a bit differently from the established players in the space such as One Kings Lane and Gilt Groupe. Read More »
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As the technology boom (or bubble) continues to roll on, more “incubators” are trying to duplicate the kind of success that Y Combinator has seen in producing startups: one of the most recent to launch is GrowLab, based in both British Columbia and Silicon Valley. Read More »
Anyone who posts early results during Monday’s federal election in Canada could be fined $25,000 or sentenced to five years in prison, according to an ancient provision in the country’s Election Act — but some Twitter users have said they will defy the ban anyway. Read More »
The Canadian government has tabled its own version of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it says strikes a balance between the rights of content creators and the rights of users. However, critics of the bill say that it gives content companies a trump card. Read More »
Google is expanding its Ontario, Canada-based engineering operation, which has either developed or worked on most of the company’s recent mobile offerings, including Gmail for the iPad. Steven Woods, the unit’s director, said that his staff are currently focusing on ideas related to HTML5. Read More »
Canadian legislators plan to introduce restrictive new copyright legislation, possibly as soon as next month, according to copyright expert Michael Geist. It would come three years after another proposed copyright bill was withdrawn in the face of criticism that it was too restrictive. Read More »
After a long period of decline, there are signs that Canada’s VC market may be heating up: a new $20 million fund to invest in early-stage companies has launched, and three new funds will be financed with a total of C$100 million from the Quebec government. Read More »
Once a leading nation in the deployment of broadband, Canada now barely ranks as a top-20 nation in overall Internet access, according to a new study. A new national broadband plan that encourages competition could help the country regain its position as a broadband leader. Read More »
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has opened a new investigation into Facebook’s privacy controls based on a complaint from a user about the way the social network changed its privacy settings during a recent upgrade. Read More »
Updated with additional comment from Facebook: Facebook, as expected, will implement changes to its privacy policies within the next year in order to comply with Canadian law, the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, confirmed this morning. The changes — which will be applied across… Read More »
Facebook has been in hot water with Canada over how it protects user data, and the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow that the company plans to comply with the government’s privacy concerns. Last month, Stoddart… Read More »
As a few hundred scruffy protesters gathered in Ottawa yesterday to support Net Neutrality, busloads of teenagers on school trips to visit Canada’s seat of government walked past them, blissfully unaware that the fight to keep Facebook free was happening right next to them. Read More »
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