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Yvonne Lau

Hong Kong

Journalist at Freelance

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  • 2 days ago | nipawinjournal.com | Yvonne Lau

    Canada has produced 33 unicorns - private companies valued at $1 billion or more - since 2013, compared to the U.S.'s 750 Canada holds its own when it comes to scaling up companies in certain tech sectors but lags far behind the United States in growing them into "unicorns" - private companies valued at US$1 billion or more - and bringing those unicorns to public markets, according to a new study of the Canadian startup landscape.

  • 2 days ago | financialpost.com | Yvonne Lau

    Advertisement 1Canada has produced 33 unicorns — private companies valued at $1 billion or more — since 2013, compared to the U.S.'s 750Article contentCanada holds its own when it comes to scaling up companies in certain tech sectors but lags far behind the United States in growing them into “unicorns” — private companies valued at US$1 billion or more — and bringing those unicorns to public markets, according to a new study of the Canadian startup landscape.

  • 6 days ago | nipawinjournal.com | Yvonne Lau

    E-commerce company's loss deepens to US$682 million Shopify Inc. president Harley Finkelstein minimized tariff concerns in a first-quarter 2025 earnings call on Thursday, noting that the company has not seen "any meaningful impact" on gross merchandise volume (GMV) - a company metric that tracks the sales taking place on its platform - in the face of U.S. president Donald Trump's trade war and cancellation of the de minimis exemption for lower-value goods.

  • 6 days ago | financialpost.com | Yvonne Lau

    Article contentShopify Inc. president Harley Finkelstein minimized tariff concerns in a first-quarter 2025 earnings call on Thursday, noting that the company has not seen “any meaningful impact” on gross merchandise volume (GMV) — a company metric that tracks the sales taking place on its platform — in the face of U.S. president Donald Trump’s trade war and cancellation of the de minimis exemption for lower-value goods.

  • 1 week ago | financialpost.com | Yvonne Lau

    Advertisement 1Canadian universities have reported a surge in inquiries and applicationsArticle contentThe United States has lured skilled technology workers from Canada for years by promising higher salaries, lower taxes and access to jobs at the world’s biggest tech companies, but U.S. President Donald Trump’s isolationist and anti-immigration agenda is starting to kindle a reversal of those labour flows.

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yvonneylau
yvonneylau @yvonneylau
29 Jan 25

Important piece by @eliotcxchen @thewirechina: "For Canada, which defines itself by its multicultural identity, (foreign interference) has been a political lightning rod. With the Hogue Report + changing leadership... a critical shift in how 🇨🇦 sees nat sec is underway."

Eliot Chen ❌
Eliot Chen ❌ @eliotcxchen

2/ I wrote about Canada's long, belated shift in its treatment of intelligence and national security, and, on the cusp of a leadership change and a bruising trade war with its closest ally, where Canada's relationship with China and America goes from here. https://t.co/pVY8Z3awmX

yvonneylau
yvonneylau @yvonneylau
24 Jan 25

Poignant report from @bbcworldservice's @sylvia_hk on Chinese moving abroad and building the "ideal China" (理想中国) that they hope to see. For some, bookstores have become a "discrete home" that contribute "to the formation of a better China." https://t.co/NPyBH5Td9h

yvonneylau
yvonneylau @yvonneylau
15 Jan 25

RT @violazhouyi: Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research, according to a data analys…