Vancouver’s high-tech hurdle: Attracting top-level talent – The Globe and Mail
From left: Version One Ventures CEO and founder Boris Wertz, BuildDirect president and CEO Jeff Booth, Vision Critical founder and president of corporate innovation Andrew Reid, Hootsuite CEO and founder Ryan Holmes, Shoes.com chairman and co-founder Roger Hardy, Plentyoffish CEO and founder Markus Frind, and…
What we can learn from the Pan Am Games – The Globe and Mail
So much for the fretting, hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing. It seems that in the end, Toronto learned to stop worrying and love the Pan Am Games. In the run-up to the games, it seemed the largest multisport spectacle ever to be held in Canada was destined…
Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It | WIRED – Wired
I was driving 70 mph on the edge of downtown St. Louis when the exploit began to take hold. Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back…
Kanye West’s Pan Am Games gig shows Toronto dreaming big – Canada – CBC … – CBC.ca
Kanye West has been awarded more than a dozen Grammy Awards, sold millions of albums and married into America’s reality TV royalty. But, for some Canadians, the rapper’s resumé is missing one key word to qualify him as a headliner for the Pan Am Games’ closing ceremony — Canadian. The organizers’…
Big data analytics accelerates Williams’ Formula One performance – V3.co.uk
Formula One cars are essentially big data factories on wheels. They have hundreds of sensors across many components collecting data on everything from fuel levels and engine performance, to oil temperature and tyre pressure. Turning that data into useful information to tweak a car’s performance…
The Best Indies To Watch From E3 2015 – Game Informer
There are a lot of big name titles at this year’s E3, but the indie game scene is still burning bright. Here are some of the most inventive and exciting new titles coming from smaller teams that you should have on your radar. We’re trying…
The mobile revolution unveiled at Google I/O – YourStory.com
Mobile technology has changed the way we find information and entertainment, communicate with friends and family and get things done. Today more searches on Google come from mobile than from desktop computers, and by some estimates there are more mobile devices than there are people on the…
How One Company Scored 7 Cents A View With Twitter Promoted Video – Marketing Land
Sometimes you find the perfect fit. In denim and marketing campaigns. For Paige Denim, it happened with a successful Twitter Promoted Video effort that produced 94,000 video views, 1.77 million impressions and a good bit of traffic back to the Paige.com e-commerce site. The elements…
5 Features For a Stellar Social Media Strategy with BuzzBundle – Search Engine Journal
This is a sponsored post for BuzzBundle. If you are part of a small social team or doing it on your own, you know social media planning can be a major time suck. By the time you research content, write quality content, develop a sharing plan,…