[ad_1] HipChat, the workplace chat app that held the throne before Slack was Slack, is being discontinued. Also being discontinued is Atlassian’s own would-be HipChat replacement, Stride. News of the discontinuation comes first not from Atlassian, but instead from a somewhat surprising source: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. In a series of tweets, Butterfield says that…
[ad_1] An unapologetic computer nerd with a penchant for tweed caps has become one of Canada’s newest billionaires by helping small merchants sell online. Tobi Lutke, a 37-year-old German immigrant who built Shopify Inc. into one of tech’s hottest stocks, was worth US$1.1 billion from company shares, options and sale proceeds at the close of trade…
[ad_1] Shopify Inc. is planning to add a new Waterloo, Ont. building to house new hires that will more than double its workforce in the region and help the company attract large clients. The Ottawa-based e-commerce software provider plans to hire between 300 and 500 new employees over the next two to three years, opening…
[ad_1] Shopify Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tobi Lutke called a short seller that targeted his company a “troll,” in his first public response since being targeted by Andrew Left’s Citron Research last week. Left, who said he had taken a short position in the stock, published a report on Oct. 4 questioning the sustainability of the…