Category: Canada

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Instacart CFO Ravi Gupta to exit for Sequoia Capital – TechCrunch

Instacart‘s chief financial officer and chief operating officer, Ravi Gupta, will exit the on-demand grocery delivery company at the end…

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Competition among alternative protein players gets hot as companies beef up with new deals – TechCrunch

The competition for control of the burgeoning market for burger replacements (and other alternatives to animal proteins) continues to heat…

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Learn how enterprise startups win big deals at TechCrunch’s Enterprise show on Sept. 5 – TechCrunch

Big companies today may want to look and feel like startups, but when it comes to the way they approach…

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Hardware startup North’s big pivot bet on wearable computing and platform shifts – TechCrunch

Waterloo, Canada-based hardware startup North is a rare bird when it comes to the tech sector: It began life as…

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Libra, Facebook’s global digital currency plan, is fuzzy on privacy, watchdogs warn – TechCrunch

Privacy commissioners from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Australasia have put their names to a joint statement raising concerns about…

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Hailstones the size of baseballs pound parts of Canada

The Earth continues to drop casual hints about climate change, including a gigantic hailstorm in Alberta, Canada on Friday. The…

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AWS’ new text-to-speech engine sounds like a newscaster – TechCrunch

Thanks to modern machine learning techniques, text-to-speech engines have made massive strides over the last few years. It used to…

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Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax – TechCrunch

Another day, another massive data breach. This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One, which revealed…

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Peer-to-peer parking marketplace Rover tests monthly subscriptions – TechCrunch

In today’s instalment of ‘the future is 100% subscription-based,’ Toronto-based startup Rover is testing out subscriptions for its parking marketplace….

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White Star Capital eyes Asia growth with new Hong Kong office – TechCrunch

For western startups looking to enter Asia and Asian startups expanding globally, more funding has become available as investors are…