This year, popular festival Coachella provided rfid bracelets as tickets. In the following video, instead of having a paper or a sim card, ticket checking is contactless and quick: It’s secure, convenient, and quick, since there is no money transa...
So if you find a problem there’s probably a startup idea lying somewhere nearby. A Montreal developer Kenji Williams developed an app called twtspire.com that scours twitter and automatically detects tweets from people that wonder why a solution d...
AccelerateMTL is coming up on the afternoon on May 23rd, right after the FounderFuel demo day. It’s announced as a conference full of good keynotes, from successful entrepreneurs like BeyondTheRack founder, renowned Internet marketers, and other I...
The International Startup Festival organizers, Phil Telio, Alistair Croll, and other partners, such as Anna Goodson, has announced yesterday they will invest up to $50,000 in a startup present at the startup summer festival. The startup festival a...
Editor’s note: Dominic St-Pierre is an experienced web entrepreneur, having sold previously twollow.com, a twitter mashup. Being a programmer and also entrepreneur at the same time, he’s venturing now in the world of saas services with Bunker, an ...
In the next two years, each startup will be eligible to a $150k in convertible note from the BDC. During and after Demo Day, the Business Development Bank of Canada and FounderFuel will assess together which startups have what it takes to be ventu...
…or at least that’s Venkatesh Rao’s argument in his recent Forbes.com article, “The Rise of Developeronomics.” His article combines 3 memes that I believe are transforming our economy. They will move the focus of commerce to software and to the in...
In the past 6 months, we’ve seen several initiatives in Montreal, such as HackingHealth, the cloud robotics hackathon, Startup Weekend. These events are open to anyone and is a good opportunity to start a project. Participants and partners also lo...
In the New York Times, Nadim Kobeissi tells how Sabu, at that time presumed to be the leader of the Anonymous network, tried to befriend him and get him into his schemes. A Montreal-based student and also encryption specialist, Nadim (@kaepora) is...
Somewhere in an African village a father is having a conversation with his son. “When you were just a little boy, we didn’t have phones that check water quality.” As incredible as it sounds, the technology is very real. The prototype was developed...
Month after month, we’ve had many hackathons in Montréal: the node.js/redis/mongod
MTLNewTech is inviting all tech entrepreneurs, developers, designers and those who are interested in technology startups to come to the monthly newtech demo event, where 5 new tech startups use the opportunity to publicly launch their startup, in ...
