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May the Forth be with you.

But of course, Disney+ is celebrating the day with a Simpsons and Star Wars crossover short, Maggie Simpson In The Force Awakens From Its Nap (priceless title). It features the Simpsons tyke heading on a quest to find her stolen pacifier, as she comes face-to-face with “young Padawans, Sith Lords, familiar droids, Rebel scum, and an ultimate battle against the dark side,…

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FAAMG. The acronym strikes again.

Yes, big tech continues to grow at exponential rates, and the acronym we all know and love(?) shifts letters as our jaws sit agape at the latest quarterly results. For the uninitiated, that acronym is collectively worth $8T+: $FB, Facebook ($923.6B)$AAPL, Apple ($2.2T)$AMZN, Amazon ($1.7T)$MSFT, Microsoft ($1.9T)$GOOGL, Alphabet Inc. ($1.6T) The #pandemic boosted sales – big time! The phrase “record growth” was a constant theme for Q1…

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Japan breaks ground on SmartCity of the Future.

Early next year, Toyota Motor Corporation will begin constructing Woven City – a prototype city of the future located at the base of Mount Fuji. The new, 175-acre urban development in Higashi-Fuji will offer a fully connected ecosystem and be powered by clean energy produced through hydrogen fuel cells. The Woven City – will act as a…

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Wealthsimple raises the Fintech bar in Canada.

Michael Katchen just announced another big win for Canada. Wealthsimple has received the largest private tech investment in Canadian history. Meritech Capital and Greylock, two of the world’s premier #tech investors, are leading a $750 million investment round to help Wealthsimple do what we always believed it could: revolutionize the way we do money, and become the biggest consumer finance company in…

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The Creative Brief Gap.

Ah yes, the #creativebrief, or lack thereof. We all know a good one when we see it or deliver it, yet all too often they just don’t match up to the out-of-the-box impactful creative both sides of the equation are looking to deliver. Case in point… Nielsen analyzed the elements that impact ad performance and found that creative contributed…

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Heirlume + AI makes trademarks easy.

Heirlume, a two-year-old, Toronto-based startup whose machine-powered trademark registration platform turns the process into a self-serve affair, has raised $1.38 million in seed funding led by Backbone Angels, with additional participation from the Future Capital collective, Angels of Many, MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, and numerous other individual investors. #wakeupimagine#AI#innovation#startups#venturecapital ? Read more from TechCrunch > https://lnkd.in/eS3sNZf

Click this. How Instagram scaled social media.

Great journey map of how a couple of innovators made an app in 8 weeks and scaled to one of the most used #socialmedia photo apps. Oh ya, and then they were purchased by Facebook for $1 billion. #wakeupimagine #startups #innovation #entrepreneurship

Shake it baby. The Streaming Shuffle is afoot.

The Walt Disney Company and #Disney+ are certainly shaking up the landscape with C R A Z Y growth. That said it’s not like Netflix is not holding its own (even with earnings showing “slowed” global growth) as the move to #cablecutting is accelerating and the big legacy TV players have all been shifting towards streaming vehicles of their own. I…

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TIME Most Influential Companies. Go Canada.

For the first time ever, TIME Magazine has released a list of its top 100 most influential companies, and it is amazing to see two Canadian businesses rocking the inventory. The inaugural list highlights 100 businesses making a major impact around the world, including our very own Shopify (thanks to rockstars Tobias Lütke and Harley Finkelstein and team), and Tilray (Brendan Kennedy and Irwin Simon), a B.C.-based cannabis company.  Check out the whole…

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CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute.

CRISPR is revolutionary. It’s also a total brute. The classic version of the #geneediting wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off. It’s effective, yes. But it’s like putting an electrical wire through a paper shredder to turn off a misbehaving light bulb. Once the wires are cut, there’s no going back. So,…

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