I can take the temperature of a room in about four seconds. Who is irritated, who is pretending not to be, who has already privately decided the evening is a write-off. People offer this back to me as a...
A Canadian technology company is proposing that businesses should not have to depend on a single market, political relationship, or traditional distribution channel to reach customers.
It’s a tall ask in an era of global political and economic uncertainty.
Vancouver-based Picturethis3D...
A husband-and-wife duo out of Langley has been developing a platform targeting trades contractors.
The field service software startup, dubbed WorkZen, aims to supply “everything you need to run your business efficiently.”
The bootstrapped WorkZen was founded by chief executive officer...
Every workplace has one. A new system gets announced, or a new supplier, or a new seating plan, and one person goes quiet in a very specific way. Not angry. Not sulking. Just somewhere else behind the eyes, running...
Apple’s new foldable phone, Duo, is the alternative for anyone who prefers technology as their drug of choice.
Tim Cook’s replacement as CEO, Apple hardware veteran John Ternus, helmed the $6.2 trillion tech powerhouse’s annual product launch in California overnight,...
NSW treasurer Daniel Mookhey announced the fund at the Sydney Investment Summit today. It will kick off in FY2028, should the government be reelected. It will coinvest alongside universities, which have a strong startup creation culture, including UNSW Founders,...
A friend cancelled dinner on me last month. The message ran to about 240 words. There was a deadline, a sick flatmate, a replacement bus service, and a closing line asking whether I was annoyed. I’d already typed “no...
A generous-looking serving can contain less ice cream. Christopher Hsee’s 1998 experiment made that distinction visible by comparing a portion piled above a small cup’s rim with a larger portion sitting below the rim of a bigger cup.
In “Less...
The next chapter was waiting at the gym. In an experiment with 226 people, access to an enticing audiobook became part of the incentive to turn up for a workout.
Katherine Milkman, Julia Minson and Kevin Volpp tested the arrangement...
Vancouver Island has generated billions of dollars in wealth and produced globally successful technology companies, but the investors holding much of that capital and the founders building the Island’s future rarely find themselves in the same room.
A new Victoria...
