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Seattle digital remittance company Remitly opening new office in Vancouver, B.C., area

Seattle-based digital remittance company Remitly is expanding its office-space footprint to the Greater Vancouver, B.C., area, the company announced Tuesday.… Read More

Relic Entertainment, the Vancouver studio behind ‘Company of Heroes,’ lays off 121 employees

The Canadian video game studio behind the Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series is laying off… Read More

Vancouver, B.C., tissue ‘bioprinting’ company inks $75M deal with Novo Nordisk for diabetes, obesity

Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company Aspect Biosystems inked a partnership worth potentially more than $2.6 billion with Danish biopharma giant Novo… Read More

Hootsuite lays off 30% of staff, says it’s focusing on ‘financial sustainability’ amid downturn

Hootsuite told employees on Tuesday that it would lay off 30% of its staff, becoming the latest tech company to… Read More

Veteran video game developers, visual effects experts launch new Vancouver B.C. studio Blinkmoon

An Emmy-winning visual effects artist has joined an industry colleague and a veteran video game producer to found a new… Read More

Sumo and Pipeworks open new Vancouver-based game studio, Timbre Games, led by EA vet

The Eugene, Ore.-based video game developer Pipeworks announced on Tuesday that it’s expanded into Canada by opening a new studio… Read More

B.C. startup’s kitchen-counter compost machine churns up $2.7M in 3 days of crowdfunding

Here’s a garbage idea that’s worth almost $3 million. Pela, a British Columbia-based company that makes sustainable products such as… Read More

Nintendo makes a rare acquisition, scoops up ‘Luigi’s Mansion 3’ maker Next Level Games

The Canadian developer behind 2019’s hit Switch game Luigi’s Mansion 3 has been acquired by Nintendo. Next Level Games, based… Read More

Longterm vision for Seattle-Portland-Vancouver mega-region will require a ‘consensus on growth’

Traffic as congested as Los Angeles? Housing as unaffordable as the Bay Area or New York? Climate emissions falling well… Read More

Canadian biotech company Chinook Therapeutics raises $65M for rare kidney disease therapies

Chinook Therapeutics, a Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company creating targeted therapies for kidney diseases, raised $65 million in a Series A… Read More

Geek of the Week: Annee Ngo engages students with e-sports tied to education and real money

The popular belief may be that gaming and e-sports can serve to distract kids from focusing on what’s “really important,”… Read More

Game Review: ‘Wandersong’ is a refreshingly optimistic story about the end of the world

If there is, at some point in human history, an awards category called “most colorful apocalypse,” Greg Lobanov‘s Wandersong ought… Read More

The International

Vancouver, B.C., steps in for Seattle as thousands gather for The International ‘Dota 2’ championships

They come from “all corners of the Earth,” and this week, instead of settling in Seattle, competitors and rabid fans… Read More

Kenmore Air

Seaplane flights connecting Seattle and Vancouver to start April 26; Microsoft cheers ‘important link’

High-speed train or ultra-high-speed hyperloop ground transportation may be years away along the corridor between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., but… Read More

Seaplane Seattle

Seaplane flights from Seattle to Vancouver, B.C., close to reality with addition of customs facility

Direct seaplane flights between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., have moved another step closer toward becoming reality and providing an efficient… Read More

Horgan and Inslee

Portland to Seattle to Vancouver: B.C. kicks in $300,000 for rapid transit study

News Brief: British Columbia will contribute $300,000 toward a study that will look into the business case for an ultra-high-speed… Read More

Vancouver

Amazon doubling Vancouver, B.C. workforce with new office with room for 1,000 people

Amazon today announced plans to open a new office in Vancouver B.C., doubling its workforce there from 1,000 to 2,000… Read More

Microsoft backs Seattle-Vancouver high-speed rail study as Cascadia conference aims to deepen ties between regions

Pacific Northwest business and political leaders on both sides of the Canadian border announced today a series of agreements to… Read More

Madrona traffic report

No drivers on I-5? Maybe someday, as Madrona report calls for self-driving vehicles between Seattle and Vancouver

The congested and time-consuming Interstate-5 route between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., provided the inspiration for an ambitious new report from Madrona Venture… Read More

Bill Gates and Satya Nadella to make rare joint public appearance in Vancouver, B.C., next week

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and its CEO Satya Nadella will headline a conference in Vancouver, B.C. next week with an emphasis… Read More

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