Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

T.O. gaming studio hires veteran Ottawa tech exec Milne to power global growth push

Insider Only Techopia, Top Stories

Wave of tech layoffs tips power back in favour of employers in sector

Canada & World, Techopia

Members of Canada’s tech industry say another wave of layoffs the sector saw this week is tipping the power dynamic back in favour of employers.

Versaterm acquires U.S. video software-maker in Ottawa firm’s eighth M&A deal since 2020

Techopia

Versaterm president and CEO Warren Loomis said Visual Labs’ products are “cost-effective” replacements for stand-alone body cameras, digital cameras and audio recorders used by first

Women’s tech collective Toast launches with aim to diversify hiring, reduce wage gaps

Canada & World, Techopia, Top Stories

“Really our mission statement is to help women get to do the work that they want, at the pay that they deserve,” Toast’s chief executive

Game for adventure: serial entrepreneur Jason Flick loving life after You.i TV

Techopia

Two years after selling his software company for US$100 million, Jason Flick is reaching for new heights – in the business world and the physical

Ottawa’s first automated restaurant provides answers to industry’s woes

Ottawa, Techopia

One local restaurateur is stepping out of the pandemic and into the future with a new restaurant concept that he believes will solve some of

Greentech startup Invert inks deal aimed at helping preserve Amazon rainforest

Techopia

Ottawa firm announced Tuesday it’s investing US$1.5 million in two projects aimed at saving about 270,000 acres of the world’s largest rainforest – about 60

Lightspeed joins Shopify and others in a round of cost-cutting layoffs

Techopia, Canada & World

Lightspeed Commerce Inc. is cutting about 300 jobs as part of a reorganization meant to unify a slew of companies it bought in recent years.

Life after Shopify giving Ottawa entrepreneur Jean-Michel Lemieux a ‘second wind’

Techopia

University of Ottawa grad who built Shopify’s engineering department from a few dozen developers into a global workforce of thousands is relishing his new role

Techopia Live: How Corsa is scaling network security

Techopia, Ottawa Business Journal Podcasts

In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran speaks with Carolyn Raab, the co-founder and chief product officer of Corsa.