Beauty tech startup Fyyne acquired by Nigeria-based e-commerce company Bumpa
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Beauty tech startup Fyyne acquired by Nigeria-based e-commerce company Bumpa

Fyyne offers a beauty services marketplace and business tools. Toronto-based Fyyne, which offers a marketplace for beauty services and business management tools for independent…

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FreshBooks appoints Wayne Jackson as CFO to support global expansion, M&A plans
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FreshBooks president and CEO depart as company lays off six percent of employees

FinTech firm promotes two interim co-CEOs, embarks on search for next leader. Toronto-based accounting software company FreshBooks has restructured its leadership team and cut…

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Certn targets global expansion of background check tech with $30 million USD Series B extension from EDC
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Certn acquires European ID verification company Trustmatic

Trustmatic marks Certn’s third international acquisition in the last two years. Victoria-based background screening startup Certn has acquired Trustmatic, a European remote identity verification…

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FigBytes acquired by Irish software company AMCS in trans-atlantic ESG deal

The deal comes one year after FigBytes secured $14.5 million USD for its ESG insights platform. Ottawa-based FigBytes, which offers a sustainability insights platform,…

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Richard Lynch will replace John Chen as interim CEO as BlackBerry prepares to split company
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Richard Lynch will replace John Chen as interim CEO as BlackBerry prepares to split company

BlackBerry has been attempting to revive shareholder interest over the past year. BlackBerry has officially announced the retirement of John Chen, its CEO and…

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Tenstorrent and Hyundai
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A|I: The AI Times – OpenAI employee secondary values company at least $80 billion

Plus: Why Korean car makers want Tenstorrent’s AI hardware. The AI Times is a weekly newsletter covering the biggest AI, machine learning, big data,…

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BBTV revenue decreases seven percent, net loss increases in Q1 as COVID-19 consumer patterns shift
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Struggling, TSX-listed BBTV announces plan to become a private company

BBTV founder and CEO, Well Health CEO to privatize Vancouver firm. Vancouver media tech firm BBTV Holdings, which currently trades on the Toronto Stock…

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R|T: The Retail Times – Shopify takes stake in Faire as company discourages employee side hustles

Plus: Instacart quickly loses its IPO gains. The Retail Times is a weekly newsletter covering retail tech news from Canada and around the globe….

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Properly founders exit as company and tech are sold in separate transactions

America real-estate giant Compass buys out Properly founders; unnamed Canadian firm acquires brokerage. Toronto-based proptech startup Properly has been acquired, after its founders announced…

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Identity-verification company Trulioo unveils new capabilities to accelerate person-matching
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Identity-verification company Trulioo unveils new capabilities to accelerate person-matching

Trulioo uses AI and machine learning to accelerate customer verification. One of the many processes that businesses are digitizing is identity verification. It is…

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