Latest Stories
Western grads win spot at Nike's first accelerator program
Martha Switzer and Christina Winkels founded Sprout at Work, an online platform where employees can create, manage and track their own office workout regimes, and employers can see, at a macro level, what's working and what's not
May 13, 2013
Awkward, clunky and just plain ugly: the cane gets a much-needed makeover
The clinical world of mobility aids isn’t the first one you’d associate with high design – and that’s precisely why a trio of young designers sees an opportunity
May 06, 2013
How a Toronto startup plans to transform ‘massive’ vitamin industry
Business school graduates leave banking jobs to start Køge, a startup that aims to improve the vitamin-buying experience through customization and delivery
Apr 29, 2013
Kira Talent's video platform simplifies search for high-caliber candidates
The Toronto-based startup's innovation is low-tech but high-impact: It shows applicants a question, and after giving them a few seconds to think, it immediately records their response in one 30- or 60-second take
Apr 22, 2013
A better way to keep startups and investors in touch
Hockeystick, a web service that replaces ad-hoc reporting with a system that keeps investors on top of their burgeoning portfolios
Apr 15, 2013
New music stand lets performers see clearly in the dark
Triplet Music Light may look like a regular music stand, but its revolutionary lighting system lets performers see sheets clearly in the dark
Apr 08, 2013
Famous butterfly inspires anti-counterfeiting nanotechnology
NanoTech Security Corp. uses a technique that deploys an electron beam to carve minute structures into material which catch the light in much the same way as the Blue Morpho, a famously iridescent butterfly
Apr 01, 2013
Online auction lets companies 'bid' on developers
Young entrepreneur Matt Mickiewicz started DeveloperAuction.com to bypass the excesses of the hiring spree for developers
Mar 25, 2013
Menus outside restaurants are more powerful than you think
UNOapp has installed its digital marketing tool across North America 'to communicate the right message at the right time to the right audience'
Mar 11, 2013
Why the Internet isn’t the solution to everything
Evgeny Morozov has built a career on skewering Internet visionaries and the ideas they peddle
Mar 01, 2013
Profile
Ivor Tossell has been writing columns about online culture for The Globe and Mail since 2005.
Ivor Tossell has been writing columns about online culture for The Globe and Mail since 2005. A reformed web programmer, his writing on urban affairs, technology and culture has appeared in Canadian publications ranging from very glossy to downright inky. He lives in Toronto.
