Innovation Toronto

photo credit: Ross C.
SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrepreneurs finishing lunch at a nearby table.
“He has 40 million uniques, he has 50 million, and he has 8 million,” Mr. Varsavsky says, referring to the [...]

Palo Alto, Calif.
STEVE WOZNIAK built the original Apple I to share with his friends at the Homebrew Computer Club, but it was his business partner Steve Jobs who had the insight that there might be a market for such a contraption. Indeed, for decades, Silicon Valley has been defined by the tension between the technologist’s [...]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Investment in Canada’s venture capital sector rose in the third quarter as U.S. investors sank more money into start-up Internet-focused companies, an industry body said on Tuesday.
Investors pumped C$512 million ($528 million) into new, small businesses across Canada in the three months to the end of [...]