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The Canadian government announced that the Startup Visa program would now become a core part of the country’s immigration policy starting in 2018.  Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Ahmed Hussen made the announcement at the DMZ in Toronto. A […]

Canadian Startup Visa to become Permanent


Google is inviting high potential start-ups to apply for its Autumn Adopt A Startup programme as it opens applications from today. This is an opportunity for ambitious entrepreneurs to receive hands on mentoring from experienced Google employees over a 12 week period and attend an exclusive programme of lectures and […]

Google’s Autumn Adopt A Startup Opens Up for Irish Applicants


Failure, they say, is the stepping stone to success. In this blog, we review some of the startups that pulled the plug in July 2017. The Get fit startup, pactapp sent its paid members the following announcement indicating it shut its service in July 2017. Its social media accounts including […]

Failed ventures July 2017 : RIP Startups that didn’t make ...



A weekly news roundup from the world of startups Startup News and Ideas Is the future VR … or AR? Google VR boss Clay Bavor explains why the two technologies aren’t so different on the latest Too Embarrassed to Ask. As storefronts shut down, this startup helps landlords find better […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 30 July


Every few years we come across a technology that has begun to graduate from a buzz-word by solving real-world problems. Earlier this year we ranked trends in Artificial Intelligence (AI) among the “Top 25 Digital Startup ideas and technologies for 2017.”  The potential for artificial intelligence has been imagined by […]

Advances in AI continue to polarize techies and business ...


Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA (24 July 2017)— The International Society of Automation (ISA), at the request of the US Department of Homeland Security, has developed a white paper designed to help small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) recognize their vulnerability to industrial cyberattack and forge an effective cybersecurity plan […]

White paper for small- and medium-sized businesses to recognize their ...



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This week we feature UK and US based startup, StaffConnect, that aims to deliver a powerful mobile employee engagement platform. StaffConnect’s customer-branded mobile app gives employees ‘a voice’, with access to company and user-generated content to increase loyalty and productivity. The cloud-hosted platform empowers employers to target that content, with analytics, […]

Startup of the Week: StaffConnect – based in the UK ...


A few weeks ago, I blogged about smartphone opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid.  India’s conglomerate, Reliance, is taking a leaf out of the playbook  by offering its ‘poor man’s smartphone’ for FREE. Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio), the telecom arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries (RIL), has unveiled a […]

Reliance JioPhone – Exploring opportunities in Smartphone race to the ...


A weekly news roundup from the world of startups Startup News and Ideas A sorta-self-driving Mercedes TACKLES AMERICANS’ GREATEST FEAR: The roundabout – ROBOCARS ARE A bit like infants—we teach them in steps. First, humans gave them the ability to drive down the highway without smashing into things. Then humans […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 23 July



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Security robots are in the news a lot. Just this week the news of a MallRobot falling into fountain in an apparent suicide went viral. (ref: Security Company Is Replacing a Mall Robot That Fell Into a Fountain to the Internet’s Delight) And there is news of a pilot project […]

Robot cop: Police Robot in Indore to manage traffic