Podcast Episodes

Face database 👱‍♀️ — Clearview gets banned for private companies. Nintendo splits their stock. Cyberwar was overhyped.

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Clearview, the surveillance company that rose to fame for scraping social media to build a huge facial recognition database, agreed to permanently ba…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Stocks don’t only go up 📉 — The markets are doing terribly. Quebec has new language laws. And IKEA is looking to build new stores.

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If you’re wondering what’s up with stocks lately, you probably already know the answer is that nothing’s up. We break down the latest markets news.

Q…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Clogged ports ⛴ — Chelsea gets bought. Ports are clogged. And there’s a new syrup king in town.

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Despite a Canadian horse being one of the favourites, Canadians couldn’t bet on last Saturday’s Kentucky Derby through single game sports betting app…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Neo banks 🏦 — Neo Financial raises a huge round. Shopify missed profit estimates but closed a huge acquisition. And the password may go the way of the dodo.

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Calgary’s Neo Financial has raised C$185 million led by billionaire Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures—launching the challenger bank into Canadian unicorn …

4 years, 2 months ago

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Surge situation 🚗 — Uber and Lyft’s stocks tank. Crowdfunding platforms will have to report suspicious transactions like banks do. The NYTimes reports record subscriber numbers.

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Markets are trying to connect the dots on the future of ride-sharing, as Uber doubles its revenue from last quarter but Lyft’s weak earnings outlook …

4 years, 2 months ago

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Church homes ⛪️ — The United Church is turning churches into houses. Tim Hortons posts huge earnings. CPPIB bets big on India.

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The United Church of Canada has plans to create new rental apartments for 34,000 people over the next 15 years by revitalizing its properties to find…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Prayer privacy 👀 — Mental health and prayer apps have terrible privacy controls. Thompson Reuters is cleaning up their act. And Stellantis is making more EV batteries in Ontario.

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Turns out, the majority of mental health and prayer apps are pretty creepy—tracking, sharing, and capitalizing on users’ most intimate personal thoug…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Augmented reality 👓 — Snap introduces new features. Tesla recalls a bunch of cars. And BeReal is taking over the internet.

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Social media and camera company Snap announced a mix of new platform features this week—some that bet on bringing augmented reality (AR) into daily l…

4 years, 2 months ago

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Freedom internet 🖥 — Meta’s stock surges. The West is defending its internet. And Square starts lending in Canada.

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Meta’s stock surged yesterday after adding more users than expected but posted its slowest revenue growth since going public a decade ago

Canada has …

4 years, 3 months ago

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Spotify snafu 🎧 — Spotify posts great results but stock still suffers. Canada’s struggling on climate. And you can retire on crypto.

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Spotify gained two million new paying subscribers over Q1 and its total monthly average of paid and unpaid users rose to 422 million, representing a …

4 years, 3 months ago

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