Eric Emin Wood
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Hashtag Trending – Apple's next iPhone event; Huawei dropped from benchmarking tool; 58% of tech employees are faking it
Apple is scheduled to reveal its next iPhone on Sept. 12. Huawei has been dropped from benchmarking tool 3DMark after it was caught cheating on tests. And an → Read More
Adobe wants to help customers meet data privacy standards – but are they doing enough?
LAS VEGAS - When asked to articulate his company's approach to data privacy, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen said he believes the software maker has "a responsibility and an obligation" to not just encourage marketers to harness more data, but to govern its use as well. The topic was no doubt on the minds of reporters → Read More
Wallet Card creator on disrupting the payment sector without changing its infrastructure
Dynamics Inc. CEO and Wallet Card creator Jeff Mullen was working as a patent attorney, a profession that saw him working late hours and often ordering goods online, when he began asking himself whether he could digitally transform the payment experience without making existing credit card infrastructure obsolete. → Read More
Kirstine Stewart joins TribalScale as president and CRO
TribalScale has added a Canadian tech giant to its executive team to match its growing presence in the country's tech industry. On → Read More
Bruce Croxon's top five predictions for Canadian business in 2018
By his own admission, Bruce Croxon finds predictions difficult. "Things are changing so fast," the Round 13 Capital managing martner and former Dragons' Den investor says when discussing his five predictions for what 2018 will bring to Canada's tech and business communities with ITBusiness.ca. "I took my best shot." → Read More
Sage integrates UPS shipping and tracking solutions into Business Cloud
Sage Group plc is collaborating with a giant of another industry to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to ship products to their customers. On Tuesday the British enterprise software giant's Canadian arm announced a partnership with shipping icon United Parcel Service (UPS) that will, in the → Read More
Visa Ready for Biometrics, begins testing fingerprint sensor-based payment cards
Visa Inc. is officially hopping onto the biometrics bandwagon. On Sunday the New York City-based payments giant announced that a new division, Visa Ready for → Read More
Canadians hate passwords, using them wrong, ready for biometrics instead: Visa
Consumers are ready to adopt biometric authentication technology such as facial recognition and fingerprint sensors to access the majority of password-protected → Read More
Adding AI to your line of business? Consider these 7 factors
Fearful of disruption and looking for a competitive advantage, boardrooms and CXOs alike have rushed to artificial intelligence (AI) as the next big thing, but → Read More
Older Canadians still leery of fintech despite flood of services, RateHub finds
Between last year's official release of Android Pay, the increasing ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered support platforms such as Sun Life's Ella, → Read More
Hyperloop, digital transformation, and office tours: 5 of the top ITBusiness.ca articles of 2017
A look back at five of ITBusiness.ca's most popular articles in 2017, including office tours, Google Home, and coverage of a future Canadian hyperloop route. → Read More
Ottawa’s $100M procurement program ‘great,’ but only a first step – analyst
The federal government's new startup-facing procurement program must be expanded to reach its full potential, Ernst & Young analyst Kirsten Tisdale says. → Read More
Expect your business to be digitally transformed within two years, CIO Census concludes
Executives who haven't yet embraced digital transformation have fewer than two years to get onboard, according to the latest CIO Census. → Read More
City of Brampton's innovation lead on building a 'world renowned' tech ecosystem
The city of Brampton is dedicated to making innovation and technology central to its economy – and has the municipal government department to prove it. → Read More
Sage adds inventory management, cloud-based payroll features to Sage One platform
The Canadian arm of British enterprise software giant Sage Group plc has added two features to its signature Sage One accounting platform aimed at retailers and → Read More
Newest ADP service gives SMBs access to enterprise-level HR expertise
It's no secret that small- and medium-sized businesses don't the HR budgets or expertise of their enterprise counterparts, so ADP Canada wants to help them out. → Read More
Inside Carproof's product lab
A company known for supplying Canadians with automotive information is getting into the product development game. Last week London, On.-based Carproof Corp. → Read More
Canada’s SaaS ecosystem receives high marks from L-Spark report
L-Spark has taken the pulse of Canada's software-as-a-service (SaaS) ecosystem and concluded it's healthier than it's ever been. The Kanata, Ont.-based SaaS → Read More
Number of telecom complaints increased in 2017 after a 3-year decline, CCTS reports
After three years of decline, the number of complaints against Canada's telecom firms rose by 11 per cent this year, according to the latest CCTS report. → Read More
Toronto and Vancouver are larger players in the cloud and SaaS ecosystems than you might think
An extensive study of the world's top 25 cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup clusters places Toronto and Vancouver higher on the list than you might → Read More