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Jesse Wente wants Canada to “tax the hell” out of Big Tech, but he’s open to cutting deals

Forget arguments over algorithms: Wente wants the money to build something better. We’ve talked about several contentious bills from our federal government on the…

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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Inside the Salesforce slowdown
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S|W: The SaaS Weekly – Inside the Salesforce slowdown

Plus: After Canadian pilot, Google expands cloud accelerator to US startups. The SaaS Weekly is a weekly newsletter covering major SaaS news from Canada…

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Canadian startup news of the week (4/30/23)

Plus: OneEleven reborn, Neo Financial embedded, Pillar & Billi ended. Welcome to BetaKit’s startup stories of the week! Here, you will find the week’s…

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Raine Maida and Senator Deacon discuss Big Tech’s control over digital creators (and the news)

Big Tech controls the discovery and distribution of Canadian content. What’s a democracy to do? There are several bills making their way through Parliament…

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TikTok presentation shows Big Tech’s influence on Bill C-11 debate

Is the Bill C-11 clamouring a “grassroots lobbying effort” or Big Tech machinations against regulation? In early February, TikTok Canada and a new advocacy…

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