Every innovation playbook I’ve read in the past two decades was written for a large city. The advice is usually the same: bigger is better, and small is something to overcome.
But after seven years chairing one of Australia’s most...
One number from Microsoft’s June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works...
Nearly three in ten American homes now contain exactly one person. In 1940 the figure was fewer than one in ten. That shift, measured across eight decades, is one of the largest changes in how the country lives, and...
WELL Health Technologies is plotting to spin out a subsidiary and list it publicly.
The Vancouver-based health-tech innovator, which trades on the TSX as WELL, is going public with spinout WELLSTAR, a digital healthcare company focused on positively impacting health...
As Canada modernizes energy systems and strengthens infrastructure, systems are becoming more complex.
Organizations must develop and adopt new technologies while at the same time maintaining reliability and uninterrupted services.
But power grids can’t be shut down, airports can’t disrupt operations,...
The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations’ analysis of AI’s impact on the workplace found the national labour market remains strong by historical standards, with workforce participation near a record high.
The AI and Employment in Australia report found that since 2022,...
Vancouver’s FintechWerx International Software Services is acquiring the intellectual property and technology of a business lending platform.
The publicly traded Fintechwerx delivers automated onboarding, identity verification, payment solutions, trust and compliance tools, and data management services under one unified architecture.
The...
BC Hydro has launched the latest part of its Power Smart 2.0 plan.
Unveiled earlier this year, BC Hydro’s Power Smart 2.0 plan is a $1-billion, three-year investment designed to help people save energy and lower bills.
Effective immediately, people throughout...
When a Visa-branded card taps a terminal at a Manhattan bodega and the customer walks out with a $4 coffee, roughly 10 cents of the transaction disappears into the payment machinery. The merchant sees Visa’s logo, blames Visa for...
There’s a particular word that gets stapled to certain kids early and never fully peels off. Slow. It shows up in report cards, in that lowered voice at parent evening, in the little sigh a teacher lets out before...
