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Hootsuite goes tweet, tweet | The Morning Report
Plus 6 other headlines from the past 24 hours.
William Johnson
September 22, 2021
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Good Morning,
Here’s what you need to know today.
Hootsuite was one of seven companies selected to join Twitter’s Official Partner Program.
The program was initially introduced to showcase vetted technology solutions that SMBs and enterprises can tap into to harness the power of Twitter and support their business. Other firms already in the Official Partner Program include Salesforce (which has a growing Vancouver presence), Sprinklr and Sprout Social. » Learn more.
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Tribe Property Technologies Inc. has agreed to acquire Powder Highway Management Group’s Property Management Portfolio, including residential management contracts and employees in Revelstoke and Golden.“This Acquisition will support our expansion strategy into new markets to drive organic growth and open new revenue streams, while bringing efficiencies in service delivery through the digitization of these communities,” said Joseph Nakhla, CEO of Tribe.
Edtech platform Thinkific launched the 'Thinkific Store on Fiverr', a marketplace designed to provide its course creators with access to digital freelancers within design, branding, email marketing, SEO, social media marketing and a number of other key disciplines key to building and scaling course-based businesses.
GenXys Health Care Systems, a precision prescribing company, announced a partnership with Helix, a population genomics company working at the intersection of clinical care, research, and genomics.
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In other news…
Eight companies are competing for the Innovate BC Regional Start-up Prize in the 2021 New Ventures BC Competition including Victoria’s Axotl, Kelowna’s Happipad and North Saanich’s Locelle.
Vancouver’s INETCO Systems Limited, which develops real-time payment fraud prevention, launched INETCO BullzAI, which combines an application layer firewall with a real-time payment fraud detection and blocking system.
AI-driven content manager Charli AI announced a new unified workspace for digital content and cloud apps alongside the expansion of its already 500+ app integration ecosystem powered by the Tray Platform.
That’s it for today’s Morning Report.
Have a productive and fulfilling day. See you tomorrow.
- William (@notionport)
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