As a publisher, you probably think a lot about optimizing and improving both your advertising operations and the revenue that you generate from ads. It might keep you up at night, pouring over CPM data and trying to do side-by-side comparisons of different advertising options. There’s also a pretty good chance that you use Google AdSense to fill a bunch …
San Francisco Chronicle: Trump, eh? Canadian startup uses candidate to lure back expats
A tech startup in Canada is using the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency to lure back Canadian expatriates and immigrants working in Silicon Valley’s tech industry.” Read more
CBC News: Silicon Valley North? Toronto, Waterloo position themselves as next tech hub
‘Waterloo [has] the sort of hacker, hustler, entrepreneurial mindset — but Toronto brings scale’
Betakit: 20 Student Startups Compete For $125,000 at W16 #VELOCITYFUND Finals
The future of education is made up of three components: co-operative education, research intensity, and student entrepreneurship. At least, that’s how Feridun Hamdallapur, the President of the University of Waterloo and one of Canada’s most innovative academic institutions, puts it. Student entrepreneurship has been on a steady rise as universities across Canada are beginning to cultivate a culture where starting …
The Record: Kitchener firm wants Silicon Valley workers who don’t like Trump to come to Canada
Canada’s technology industry has chosen a mascot for its latest campaign to poach Silicon Valley talent. His name is Donald Trump. Sortable, an advertising startup in Kitchener, has been running Facebook ads featuring a photo of Trump with the tag line: “Thinking of moving to Canada? Sortable is hiring.” Read more
Times Union: Trump dodgers
But as it turns out, Apple could have been making chips here long before that if Jack Welch had pulled the trigger. Read more
Tampa Bay Times: Americans may head north to flee Trump
A survey conducted by Vox.com of 2,000 registered voters showed 28 percent claimed they’d likely “consider moving to another country, such as Canada” with a Trump victory. Read more
SiliconBeat: Canadian startup uses Trump to lure Silicon Valley techies
“Thinking of moving to Canada? Sortable is hiring,” the advertising company wrote on its website over a picture of the controversial presidential candidate. The Ontario startup claims 31 percent of Americans would considering moving to Canada if Trump is elected. Read more
Bloomberg: Work in Silicon Valley and Spooked About Trump? Canada Wants You
Sortable, an advertising startup, has been running Facebook ads featuring a photo of The Donald with the tagline: “Thinking of moving to Canada? Sortable is hiring.” Next week, a group of Canadian mayors, keen to attract top people and reverse a brain drain, will visit California to tout Canada’s growing tech scene. Far too polite to mention the Republican front-runner’s …