Vancouver-based UniDoc Health, which sells cube-shaped kiosks for remote healthcare, has struck a deal to purchase software and other assets from American healthtech firm AMD Telemedicine. UniDoc has entered into a definitive agreement to buy AMD Telemedicine’s name, Agnes Connect software, related intellectual property, customer subscriptions, and accounts for $175,000 USD ($251,000 CAD) in cash…

Prime Minister Mark Carney has officially announced that the Government of Canada will cancel its proposed hike to the capital gains tax inclusion rate. Carney promised to do this earlier this month after the Liberals elected him to replace Justin Trudeau as party leader and prime minister, following nearly a year of backlash from Canadian…

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Toronto-based accounting software company FreshBooks has casually unveiled its new permanent CEO alongside a new $125-million USD ($179-million CAD) debt financing round.  Shaheen Javadizadeh will be taking the reins from long-time interim leader Mara Reiff, who has overseen the company since former president Mark Girvan and former CEO Don Epperson departed in November 2023. Reiff,…

Researchers say they found ‘possible links’ between the Ontario Provincial Police and Paragon Solutions spyware, which has been used against civil society worldwide. Canada, Crime, Tech, Citizen Lab, Ontario Provincial Police, Paragon, Spyware : Tech ​Researchers say they found ‘possible links’ between the Ontario Provincial Police and Paragon Solutions spyware, which has been used against civil society…

There has been a lot of (necessary) election and trade war talk on The BetaKit Podcast recently. But this week we just want to nerd out on some tech news. So consider this week’s episode a tech palate cleanse, focused on AI (the pickled ginger of tech conversations). “Apple won’t use user data to develop…

It turns out I was wrong. In 2024, I was responsible for a lot of parasocial helicopter parenting about Canadian tech’s young generation of entrepreneurs. People like Jocelyne Murphy and Scott Langille, who both spoke at BetaKit Town Halls. Without the support and mentorship they were asking for, I said, we might soon lament Canadian…

University of Ottawa researchers have discovered new ways to control atoms that could both broaden physics knowledge and have practical applications for medicine and computing. The team isn’t expecting its work to lead to real-world uses in the near future. Physics professor Ravi Bhardwaj and fellow scientists have published a paper in Nature Communications showing…

Montréal-based Lightspeed Commerce has pulled back its revenue outlook for its 2025 fiscal year, which ends on March 31, as its same-store sales and subscription revenues have taken a hit over the past couple of months.  Lightspeed said in a statement that “several macroeconomic conditions have deteriorated” since reporting its third-quarter earnings last month, where…

Québec-based non-profit tech accelerator Numana has announced a strategic partnership with Finnish telecom giant Nokia and United States (US)-based tech company Honeywell to help develop secure communication technologies in the era of quantum computing.  The partnership will see Honeywell and Nokia contribute technological expertise to Numana’s Kirq Quantum Communication Testbed, which allows businesses in Québec…