Samira Balsara

Samira is a writer for IT World Canada. She is currently pursuing a journalism degree at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly known as Ryerson) and hopes to become a news anchor or write journalistic profiles. You can email her at sbalsara@itwc.ca

Articles by Samira Balsara

Hashtag Trending Dec. 2 – Amazon underreported COVID cases; Microsoft’s BNPL faces poor feedback; Google employee lawsuit

Files from Tom Li Amazon faces accusations of underreporting COVID, Microsoft’s Buy Now Pay Later Edge inclusion has users agitated, and Google is facing a...

Hashtag trending Nov. 26 – Instagram CEO to appear before Congress; U.S. government blocks China’s quantum compute companies; France wants to hide Wish

Hashtag trending Nov. 26 - Instagram CEO to appear before Congress; U.S. government blocks China’s quantum compute companies; France wants to hide Wish

58 per cent of shoppers sticking to online shopping this holiday season: Google trends

As a busy holiday shopping season kicks off this week with Black Friday, Google Canada is revealing the top Canadian Black Friday and Cyber...

University research group creates avatar to help online shoppers feel how clothes fit

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to fuel online shopping demands, a research team from the University of Saskatchewan is developing a way to solve the growing problem of clothing returns, with an avatar that “feels” how clothes fit digitally. 

Hashtag Trending Nov. 18 – Apple softens right to repair stance; FTC wants to make online subs easier to cancel; Amazon boots Visa

Apple to provide official iPhone parts to consumers, FTC wants to tighten rules around subscription cancellation, and Visa and Amazon are in a spat.

Ryerson launches new, hands-on innovation course

Ryerson University has introduced a new course that allows students to focus on a project within one of Ryerson’s Zones - incubator spaces that bring people together to kickstart projects and build startups - either as founders or as partners within an existing team.

Cloudli launches communication app for business texting and calling

Cloudli Communications has launched Cloudli TalkNText, a mobile-first service that equips small businesses with unified voice and business texting capabilities.

Report reveals Canadian software developers dissatisfied with current salary

More than half of software developers in Canada are dissatisfied with their current base salary, according to a report by remote-first developer company Commit. 

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