After nine years as Elevate, tech festival updates name to provide direction in an increasingly uncertain world.

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The Big Six Canadian bank has teamed up with the country’s LLM maker to boost AI adoption.

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Toronto startup sells supplements and test kits for reproductive health.

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Hub will unite stakeholders from across healthcare value chain to accelerate treatment commercialization.

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Khosla-backed startup uses reinforcement learning to tackle analog design problems.

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Australian healthtech plans to hire 30 more staff in Canada, its second-largest market.  

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ValueTrend Wealth Management president and chief portfolio manager Ivana Delevska says Cloudflare (Cloudflare Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials NYSE:NET) is one of the more interesting AI-related cybersecurity stories. Speaking on BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call on Sept. 16, Delevska said Cloudflare provides a secure platform that companies can use to build AI applications. She said […]

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RBC Dominion Securities analyst Paul Treiber expects BlackBerry (BlackBerry Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials NYSE:BB) to report “healthy” fiscal Q2 results, with revenue and earnings potentially ahead of Street expectations. As reported by the Globe and Mail, in a Sept. 21 preview, Treiber maintained his “Sector Perform” rating and US$9.00 target on BlackBerry. The […]

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Funding will support the Conexus-backed program until 2028. 

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There have only been six named storms this Atlantic hurricane season so far, and most of them only lasted a couple of days. What’s going on? Where’s all the hurricane activity?

The NATO DIANA Capital Network connects investors with companies in its defence tech program.

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A federal court refused to strike down a climate lawsuit brought against the Carney government by Canadian youth.

AI rollup firm aims to help its Main Street software businesses deploy AI they can trust.

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Dedicatted explains how MSPs can take ownership of uptime and incident response as reliability demands increase.

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Calgary- and Houston-based cleantech company received funding from S2G Investments and Canada Growth Fund.

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New funding will help build out a platform designed to detect treatment effects sooner.

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Lorne Steinberg Wealth Management senior vice-president Martin Cobb says Smith & Nephew (Smith & Nephew Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials NYSE:SNN) looks undervalued relative to its medical device peers. Speaking on BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call on Sept. 17, Cobb talked about Smith & Nephew, a medical device company with businesses in orthopedics, advanced wound […]

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SPEAR Invest founder and CIO Ivana Delevska says concerns about a slowdown in AI development are misplaced, even as recent comments from Anthropic’s CEO weighed on technology stocks. Speaking on BNN Bloomberg’s Market Call on Sept. 16, Delevska said investors initially feared AI companies would slow investment in frontier models. She said the more likely […]

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Beacon Securities analyst Gabriel Leung says RESAAS Services (RESAAS Services Stock Quote, Chart, News, Analysts, Financials TSXV:RSS) has evolved from a real estate networking platform into an enterprise software company with improving revenue visibility. Vancouver-based RESAAS provides referral, payment, data exchange and market intelligence infrastructure for real estate organizations globally. The company’s main products include […]

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The startup, founded by former Loblaw Digital leaders, plans to expand across North America and Europe.

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