The government of Canada says its first round of  funding through Canada’s AI Compute Access Fund will support 44 small and medium-sized businesses. Evan Solomon, the federal minister for AI and innovation, made the announcement during a press conference at Web Summit Vancouver on Tuesday. He said the $66 million handed out through the fund…

A 12-person Canadian startup is taking on US tech giant Apple in legal fights across the globe for alleged antitrust violations after Apple removed its video-sharing app from the App Store.  Hamilton, Ont.-based Rave, the maker of a social streaming app that allows users to sync video streaming to remotely watch movies or TV shows…

Opennote, an edtech startup founded by three students in Guelph, Ont. and Irvine, Calif., has been acquired by San Francisco-based document control platform Reducto.  “Their team deeply understood the product vision we were building.” Vedant Vyas, Opennote Opennote launched last year as an education personalization platform targeting undergraduate students. It allowed users to consolidate their…

Toronto Tech Week is back for its sophomore year, and it’s scaling up. Launched in the wake of Collision Conference’s departure, last year’s debut drew more than 15,000 attendees and 500 speakers across 315 events. It was an experiment, but one that proved the city’s tech sector wanted its own thing. In only a year,…