Coffee Briefing Aug 23, 2022 – Shopify Launches Collaboration. Robert Half’s mobile app wins a Gold Stevie Award. Best Buy supports his STEM education.more

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Shopify Announces New Product to Connect Creators and Merchants

Shopify launches Shopify Collabs to foster partnerships between creators and merchants and provide new sales channels for monetizing their content.

To take advantage of this new feature, creators can apply for a Shopify Collabs account, browse and partner with Shopify merchants who match their audience, and use free links created with Shopify’s bio tools to share their experiences on social media. You should curate the selection of products you share on your platform. commerce, link pop. Creators get paid when someone buys an item from a shared link. Shopify Collabs integrates from discovery to payment, tracking inventory, orders and customer information all in his one platform.

Shopify’s Starter plan includes Collabs and costs $7 USD after a 14-day free trial.

Robert Half Mobile App Wins Gold Stevie Award at 2022 International Business Awards

For the second year in a row, Robert Half’s mobile app won a Gold Stevie Award for Professional Services for Mobile Sites and Apps at the 19th Annual International Business Awards.

Executives judging this category praised the app’s ease of use, recent updates, and AI features.

Launched in July 2019, the Robert Half Mobile app sought to support job seekers by matching them with opportunities that fit their requirements.

James Johnson, executive vice president and chief technology officer at Robert Half, said:

The International Business Awards 2022 featured over 3,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and industries, considered across a wide range of categories. More than 300 executives participated in the judging process to determine the Stevie Award winners.

MintList Wins Stevie Award for Tech Startup of the Year

MintList, an AI-powered online automotive marketplace based in Vancouver, won a Stevie Award in the software category for Tech Startup of the Year at the 19th Annual International Business Awards.

Only three Canadian companies have ever won a Stevie Award, but it is the first in this category.

“MintList simplifies the car buying and selling process, reduces risk and puts control back in the hands of the consumer. Our technology is a welcome departure from the traditional frustrating process of buying or selling a car. It’s a change and our record growth is proof that consumers want it.”

MintList is one of the winners to be celebrated at a gala banquet on Saturday, October 15th at the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel in London, England.

Best Buy Launches Geek Squad Academy Paper Bag Contest to Support STEM Education

Best Buy launched the Geek Squad Academy Paper Bag competition to support interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields and the development of universal STEM skills. Paper bags sold in Best Buy stores contain QR codes that redirect parents and children to explore the Geek Squad Academy online learning STEM-focused program and enter contests to win STEM awards. It is attached.

Best Buy says it will donate $0.25 for each paper bag sold to provide technology to schools nationwide.

Geek Squad Academy online learning for youngsters ages 10-16 includes free web know-how courses to learn coding, including game design, photography, cryptography, stop-motion animation, 3D design, and more.

The contest starts on August 19th and ends on September 30th. Participants can enter in 3 different ways, with a maximum of 4 entries per person. Each Friday of the 6-week contest, one winner will be selected to win a $250 Best Buy gift card, and at the end of the contest, one winner will win her STEM prize package. selected.

Find out how to enter the contest here.

Xero is hiring multiple positions in Toronto and Calgary

New Zealand-based company Xero has announced new tech positions in Toronto, Calgary and several remote locations.

Xero is recruiting for 19 positions, including Software Tester, Education Specialist, Bilingual Technical Writer, IT Cloud Systems Engineer, Account Manager, Senior Account Manager, Senior Legal Counsel, and Senior Machine Learning Engineer. 10 are based in Toronto, 5 in Calgary and 4 in remote locations.

Xero provides cloud-based accounting software solutions for small businesses, with over 3.3 million subscribers and over 1,000 third-party apps. The company recently acquired his TaxCycle in Calgary for his C$75 million and is looking to further expand its presence in Canada.

Xero says it offers a range of benefits, including health and wellness benefits, employee stock ownership plans, vacation pay, flexible work environments, and parental leave benefits. Team members are given 10 days of wellness and compassion leave per year to support employees in difficult personal situations.

According to the company, an unspecified majority of the 19 positions have already been filled. Click here to see current vacancies at Xero.

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Canadian company wins CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge 2022 High Impact Award

Canadian cleantech company CleanAir.ai has won the global CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge (CSXC) 2022 “High Impact Award” for its ALVI CleanAir safety system.

Honeycomb’s Liz Fong Jones talks to Blameless about technical debt

Liz Fong Jones, Principal Developer Advocate at California-based software debugging tools vendor Honeycomb.io, and Jean Clermont, Program Manager at international construction services provider Flatiron, shared a recent webinar on Site Reliability Engineering ( SRE) technical debt. Advocate for Matt Davis and Kurt Andersen, his SRE architect for the SRE platform Blameless.

Rogers will provide more information to the CRTC inquiry regarding the July 8 outage.

Rogers updated his response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio and Television Communications Commission (CRTC) to add additional information about what caused the network to go down on July 8th.

Microsoft and Technation launch program to help prepare students for the world of digital work

Technation and Microsoft recently launched a career-ready internship program called Explore. The program brought together his freshman and his sophomore college students from across Canada to participate in a 10-week paid job and integrated experiential learning program at Microsoft’s Canadian headquarters in Toronto. .

Google updates search engine to demote clickbait

Google plans to make changes to its search engine rankings to promote original content over purely search engine-optimized articles that fail informational or clickbait.

Visa partners with Metrolinx to bring Tap to Pay to GTA transit passengers

Financial services company Visa announces partnership with Metrolinx to enable transit passengers in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to make contactless payments using their Visa credit card or payment-enabled devices such as smartphones and watches Offer choice. Until now, contactless payments were only available with Sakigake cards.

New CompTIA Survey Highlights Trends in Partner Experience

New research from CompTIA shows that relationships between technology vendors and their channel partners are strong, even when addressing issues related to compensation, communications, and technical support.

Carbon-Neutral Data Center Market Earnings Soar: BIS

Market research firm BIS Research released a report this week on the carbon-neutral data center market. Last year he generated US$5.02 billion in revenue, the report predicts, which he will more than triple by 2027.

Telus requests CRTC permission to add surcharges to credit card payments

Telecommunications giant Telus has asked Canada’s Radio, Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for permission to add a 1.5% surcharge to the bills of customers paying by credit card. If approved, this surcharge could go into effect as early as October.

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