by David H | Dec 28, 2017 | Blog
In our current world, there’s good reason to be concerned about social connection. Former US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy has called loneliness a growing health epidemic. “During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not...
by David H | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog
Amidst the holiday shopping frenzy, Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, is a reminder of the perils of a life spent in the pursuit of money – and that there’s a place in the underworld for bosses who don’t give adequate time off....
by David H | Feb 17, 2016 | Events
Thursday, February 25, 2016 7 p.m. to late Lab T.O. is Toronto’s newest co-working space, and we’re finally getting around to hosting an opening party! Of course, we’ve got some great food and drinks. Also, we’re bringing in some of the...
by David H | Feb 11, 2016 | Events
This month’s presentations will be: Hosting your personal website with GitHub for free – Graham Robertson Rather than pay a web host for server space, Graham will show you how to use the GitHub source-code repository to host your website at no cost....
by David H | Feb 8, 2016 | Events
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. In our first meetup we talked about personal goals for 2016. We agreed to make wsTO a supportive community of peers that keeps each other accountable. In our second meetup we’re going to talk about the web projects we’re...
by David H | Sep 14, 2015 | News
Several teams of hackers “got their bot on” at the MaRS center over the weekend as part of a robotics hackathon aimed at creating robots that promote healthy people and environments. Teams of four could choose either a beginner base kit with an Arduino or...
by David H | Sep 8, 2015 | News
Newsana, an online news aggregator aimed at getting experts to recommend news stories, has been bought by Toronto-based creative agency Relish Interactive. In a message to Newsana members Tuesday, Newsana co-founder Ben Peterson noted: Newsana is in good hands. Relish...
by David H | Sep 5, 2015 | News
Toronto’s Bubl Technology, the maker of a spherical camera for capturing 360-degree images and video, closed a $4.6 million seed round Wednesday. The round was led by Samsung Ventures, J-Tech Capital, and other unnamed investors. At the time of the funding...
by David H | Sep 3, 2015 | News
Don’t call MealSurfers “the Uber for food.” Co-founder Ali Jiwani says it’s more akin to Etsy It’s been extensively argued that the rise of the so-called “gig” economy has disadvantaged employees, who shoulder more risk and...
by David H | Aug 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
More than 400 people registered for the Tech Toronto Meetup in August for a variety of topics concerning the business of technology startups. Dessy Daskalov of Nudge Rewards, a mobile app that provides actionable data to businesses, explained that it was often cheaper...
