digital : Featured Stories

Every year, Deloitte predicts the tech and media trends that will define the year ahead. This year, we listened. 

With Toronto picking up speed as a North American epicentre for entrepreneurialism, we rounded up some young businesses poised to make big things happen in the year ahead. 

Toronto startups Giveffect, FlipGive and Hospital Connection set out to rewire and disrupt the billion-dollar charity market in Canada.

A group of Toronto businesses are changing the way we interact with data. 

After 15 years developing companies in Germany, Mexico, California, and the UK, Hamid Arabzadeh returned to Toronto in 2010 to launch the startup incubator Spoke Technologies Inc. He spoke with Yonge Street about the local startup scene and what it takes to make businesses run.

A Toronto-based company wants your smartphone data, but it's not for what you think. How crowdsourcing is changing the climate of weather forecasting.

Toronto is getting its manufacturing groove back. We take a look at the contemporary companies making manufacturing, and locally made goods and products, a priority. 

Move over Siri, there's a new voice-activated computer in town. Meet Ubi, a small computer with a remarkable understanding of natural language, and two other distinct Toronto-based user interface innovations. Over the next three to five years, we will see a renaissance in UI and experience design. 

From music to video games, new technologies are making therapies for children with ASD more affordable and accessible. Meet the Toronto-based researchers whose innovations are helping children understand themselves—and the world around them—in new ways. 

Find out how a group of Toronto-based startups are rethinking how stores, brands, and retail floors interact with consumers. As customers become more informed shoppers, stores need to match and expand their expertise. 

In the latest in our series reporting on innovations coming out of MaRS Discovery District, we look at several cutting-edge medical advances currently in development--from revolutionary cancer treatments to personality-based patient care. 

By bridging Toronto and the Kitchener-Waterloo area, both through collaborative networks and the facilitation of a high-speed rail system, regional organizations aim to create a powerhouse of Canadian talent.