Four hot acquisitions rocket Vancouver tech

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🗞️In the past seven days, acquisitions have been the talk of the town — both for Vancouver businesses like Pocketed which were bought this week, and for the larger companies like Clio, which made its own acquisition on Thursday (scroll down to the “in other news” section to read about two more). Meanwhile, B.C. is seeing some benefit from the threatened U.S. tariffs with the federal government dropping barriers to trade between Canadian provinces, and we’ve talked to founders, funders, and PR professionals about how Vancouver companies can seize the opportunity. Oh, and the finalists for the BC Cleantech Awards have been announced — we’ve listed the companies to watch.

-Kate Wilson, managing editor