H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Montréal’s Inversago for $1 billion
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H|T: The Healthtech Times – Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Montréal’s Inversago for $1 billion

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R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon reduces private-label operation as it battles costs, regulators
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R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon reduces private-label operation as it battles costs, regulators

Plus: FinTech platforms are leaning more heavily on buy now, pay later. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from…

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Voiceflow raises $15 million USD to help companies collaborate on AI customer service

Voiceflow says it makes it easy for AI to say to customers: “How can I help you today?” Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Voiceflow…

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Shopify changes employee compensation model: “being a manager now has no effect on compensation”
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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify and Lightspeed bring positive earnings to pessimistic markets

Plus: Uber is finally making money after years of losses. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and…

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Long-time VP and product leader Satish Kanwar departs Shopify
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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify adds new merchant tools, loses long-time VP

Plus: Shein makes an aggressive pitch to woo US Amazon sellers. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada…

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Cohere secures strategic investment from SAP as enterprise demand for generative AI grows
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A|I: The AI Times – Cohere partners with SAP, Apple preps “Apple GPT”

Plus: Meta, Google, OpenAI promise White House responsible AI development. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify wants to give you an AI Sidekick

Plus: Sampler acquires Admass’s tech to integrate UGC and AI into platform. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from…

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Gaming and esports tech firm Swarmio files for creditor protection
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Three game-development companies hiring in Canada

Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and Amazon are hiring for their game-development teams. The recent news of Microsoft’s $68.7-billion USD acquisition of Activision-Blizzard moving forward signifies…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Uber, DoorDash, Grubhub sue NYC over minimum pay law

Plus: Italian food service Porta raises $10.5M to fill a General Assembly-sized hole. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Amazon faces FTC antitrust case and free returns backlash

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