Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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TravelAI Brings Sonder Home with Brand Acquisition

Vancouver-based TravelAI has acquired the Sonder brand and relaunched Sonder.com, giving one of Canada’s best-known travel-tech names a second life following the collapse of its former operator. Through parent company UpNext Ventures, TravelAI acquired the Sonder word mark, more than...

A study asked people to spend fifteen minutes a week walking outdoors while deliberately looking for things that amazed them, and by the eighth...

There is something wonderfully strange about a psychology study that finds part of its answer in the way people frame a selfie. In 2020, a team led by Virginia Sturm at the University of California, San Francisco published a study...

Telus Reveals Leadership Changes as ‘First Step’ of Business ‘Transformation’

Since 2022, the value of shares in Telus are down by more than half, even amid broader market rallies. To help buck the trend, the venerable Vancouver telecom titan has unveiled changes to its executive leadership. This includes David Fuller rejoining...

Vayu by Prana Labs Wants Smartwatches to Do More Than Measure Stress

Wearable devices have become good at telling people when they are stressed. Vancouver’s Prana Labs wants them to help people do something about it. The startup is behind Vayu, a wearable-first breathwork platform that combines biometric monitoring, artificial intelligence, and...

Here are the finalists in the 2026 Startup Daily Best in Tech awards

More than 265 entries were submitted across 15 categories, which features three new awards in 2026 – Best Startup Marketing, Startup Employee of the Year, and Best accelerator, Incubator or Startup Workspace. Once again the most popular categories were once...

Ambition doesn’t fade in your 40s — a Gallup analysis suggests it quietly redirects, from wanting to be seen as impressive to wanting to...

The cliché about midlife is that ambition softens. That people in their forties stop pushing, stop reaching, settle into the shape of whatever they’ve built. It’s a comforting story if you’re twenty-eight and worried about running out of runway,...

Sendle reborn after logistics company buys brand from liquidators

Andrew McKenna, managing director of logistics business McKenna Worldwide Services and general manager, ANZ for Quantium Solutions, has acquired the Sendle brand, trademarks, and domain name. The deal’s value was not disclosed. The purchase, revealed at the Online Retailer Conference &...

ARENA backs sustainable aviation fuel startup with $32 million

ARENA has given $12.5 million for the initial phase, for engineering and development work to build an integrated supply chain, with a further $19.5 million for front-end engineering design once HAMR has secured co-funding.  It’s the first investment by the government’s...

The company behind Singha beer removed one of its heirs from every executive role days after an abuse allegation went public — a reckoning...

On May 19, Boonrawd Brewery — the family-owned company behind Singha, the beer brand nearly synonymous with Thailand — announced that it had removed Sunit Scott from all his positions in the company and its affiliated businesses. The statement...

Singapore’s millionaire density hit 1 in 6 households — and the mental health data is telling a very different story about what that wealth...

One in six households in Singapore now hold at least a million US dollars in investable assets, the highest millionaire density of any city in Asia. The same city ranks among the top three in the region for reported...
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