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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.

Shopify raises service plan fees after leaving them ‘largely unchanged’ for 12 years

Shopify Inc. is raising prices for three of its service plans after they remained "largely unchanged" for 12 years.

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

Well-known business leader founded digital marketing and content agency bv02 in 2002 and served as its chief revenue officer for 16 years before assuming the same role at cybersecurity startup Field Effect Software in 2019.

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

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

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 responders in the field.

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

"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 said.

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

Two years after selling his software company for US$100 million, Jason Flick is reaching for new heights...

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

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 the biggest challenges facing the industry.

Greentech startup Invert inks deal aimed at helping preserve Amazon rainforest

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 million trees – from being cut down.

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

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’

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 as adviser and investor at Denver-based software startup DreamTeam.
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