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Apollo 11 - Buzz Aldrin and the U.S. flag on the Moon.NASA

Unless you're a space nerd you probably didn't know the 2015 International Space Development Conference (ISDC) was in Toronto this week, but if you were thinking of crashing an event today's the day as Buzz Aldrin is scheduled to give the noon keynote.

In other tech news, the successful initial public offering of Shopify could prompt Hootsuite, another promising Canadian tech startup, to tap public markets sooner rather than later, its chief executive said on Thursday.

And a raft of other promising technology compatriots could quickly join them, executives and backers say, in a revival of public capital-raising that would boost a commodity-heavy equity market pummeled by plunging oil and metal price

Also, Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd said it plans to buy back 12 million shares, sending its stock up nearly 2 per cent in extended trading in the United States.

BlackBerry, which has not repurchased any outstanding securities in the last one year, said it would present a new employee share purchase program and propose an increase in its equity incentive plan at its annual meeting next month.

- With files from Reuters

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