
Techopia Live: Assessing Shopify’s challenges and opportunities
In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran talks Shopify with Rick Watson, who spent more than 20 years in e-commerce

Techopia Live: Assessing Shopify’s challenges and opportunities
In this episode of Techopia Live, Ottawa Business Journal publisher Michael Curran talks Shopify with Rick Watson, who spent more than 20 years in e-commerce

Shopify to fight CRA request for six years of merchant tax records: CEO
Shopify Inc.’s chief executive says the company will fight a request from the Canada Revenue Agency to turn over six years of records for Canadian

Shopify launches fight against ‘patent trolls’ and their funders, files Texas lawsuit
Shopify says it wants to push back against the trend of companies filing hundreds of patent infringement lawsuits against businesses every year, and is waging

Tech layoffs fuelling rise in severance complaints, lawyer in Shopify class-action suit says
A lawyer who has launched a class-action lawsuit on behalf of recently laid-off Shopify employees says he’s seeing a rise in complaints from tech workers

Shopify faces class action over severance offered to recently laid-off staff
A class-action lawsuit alleges Shopify reneged on a deal it offered some employees who were laid off in a recent round of cuts.



Tech sector shrinks as Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate ticks up to 4.2% in April
Ottawa-Gatineau’s tech sector shrank by more than 10 per cent last month, Statistics Canada said Friday – an ominous sign for a local industry rattled

Analysts praise Shopify’s decision to narrow its focus, but some still question firm’s leadership
Ottawa-based Shopify said Thursday it is laying off 20 per cent of its employees and selling its logistics business to California-based supply chain management company

Shopify stock surges after firm announces plans to cut workforce by 20% and sell logistics business
Ottawa-based Shopify announced the moves Thursday morning and positioned them as a way to help it focus on its main goal: making commerce easier.
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