Elon Musk’s Recent Twitter Rant Brings To Light The Need To Disrupt The Cell Phone Duopoly, Perhaps More Than A Free Twitter; And BlackBerry Mobile Patents…
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Imagine creating a startup and then a war breaks out in your home country. Then you move to an underground shelter, only to move to another…
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet at Collision Conference; Corporate Empathy and the Secret Sauce to Mentoring Startups
I’m guided around a black curtain by a Techstars rep who tells me Maëlle Gavet is now free for her interview. I see Gavet sitting in a…
Facebook, Algorithmic-Based Rankings and ‘The Perfect Storm’; Frances Haugen Testifies to Congress.
The whistleblower, Frances Haugen, and former product manager for Facebook (now Meta) testified at yesterday’s U.S. Senate hearing. Regarding her testimony, Sen. Blumenthal (D-Conn) remarked in his opening…
Why Toronto (And Surrounding Regions) Might Be The Next Silicon Valley
Invest in Toronto, invest in Ottawa, invest in Waterloo, invest, invest, invest.
With A Possibility For CRISPR To Cure “All” Diseases, Should All New Biotech Companies Be Designated Public Benefit Corporations (PBCs) To Thwart Potentially Specious Big Pharma Takeovers?
A neoteric philosophy on CRISPR (Cas9 and other variants): biotech startups; takeovers; Big Pharma (potentially comprised with executives susceptible to unscrupulous profit motives); a designate known as…
BlackBerry World Tour 2019: Girl Guides of Canada; CylancePROTECT; AI; IoT
BlackBerry partners with Girl Guides of Canada announcing launch of ‘Digital Defenders’ program at Toronto leg of WorldTour2019, along with first public demos of CylancePROTECT mobile cybersecurity.
Toronto’s Spacefy Set To Make Noise: Lights, Camera, Action!
If you think your home, loft or commercial space would make for an interesting backdrop for a movie; an event space; a studio or for other…