Wine Folly and Global Wine Database Merge
Wine Folly and Global Wine Database Merge to Create the World’s Preeminent Wine Content and Data Company: Folly Enterprises Inc.…Read more
Wine Folly and Global Wine Database Merge to Create the World’s Preeminent Wine Content and Data Company: Folly Enterprises Inc.…Read more
CALGARY & OTTAWA, CANADA – June 8, 2017 – The Canadian Vintners Association (CVA) and Global Wine Database (GWDB Inc.)…Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 19, 2017 Sonoma, California: BlackSquare Inc. announces an exciting opportunity for U.S. wineries wanting to ship…Read more
Imagine being able to ship your wine around the world despite different regulations. At BlackSquare, we are experts in direct-to-consumer…Read more
Australia’s Schild Estate Wines Launches Direct-to-Consumer Canada in Partnership with Wine Collective Inc. October 6, 2016 (Calgary, AB) Starting October…Read more
Melbourne, AUS, – June 14th, 2016: BlackSquare and Vintrace are excited to announce the first in a series of country-wide…Read more
Edmonton, Canada – The Accelerate Fund is proud to announce the closing of a funding round in BlackSquare Inc., the…Read more
Unified data strategy a first in the wine industry and provides a global footprint Calgary, Canada & Munich, Germany…Read more
For Immediate Release September 22, 2015 Canadian Online Wine Directory Released Canada’s first national, industry-led, online winery directory has been…Read more
BlackSquare is proud to have sponsored and participated at the second annual Wine Vision conference, held in London, U.K. on…Read more
Ecommerce Innovator now Bundling World’s Most Popular Social Relationship Platform for Global Wine Industry Clients Calgary, Alberta, Canada: December 1,…Read more
Since our 2010 start, BlackSquare has hit many milestones. We’ve redefined how wine is sold in the world of ecommerce, developed…Read more
Recently, BlackSquare co-founders, Matthew Protti and David Gluzman, presented at two of Canada’s best-known business and finance forums: the…Read more
The Canadian Vintners Association (CVA) has signed a deal with BlackSquare Inc wine consultancy to produce an online directory of…Read more
Project Wine411 in association with Blacksquare will list Canada’s 800 wineries, as well as its cideries and meaderies, and will…Read more
Industry Growth Triggers Need for Vital Business & Tourism Resource Kelowna, BC Canada, July 9, 2014: At their annual general…Read more
BlackSquare was recently invited by Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper to help welcome Tony Abbott, Prime Minister of Australia, on his…Read more
Wineries: What you need to know about complying with Canada’s new anti-SPAM laws, effective July 1, 2014 The recently…Read more
It isn’t often that a company can revolutionize an industry, but a couple of Calgary wine-lovers have managed to do…Read more
We’ve recently been featured in WBM – Australia’s Wine business Magazine, is one of world’s most influential wine magazines. It…Read more
BlackSquare was selected to be part of the Government of Canada’s mission to the 6th annual Hong Kong International ICT…Read more
Late yesterday evening there was a major security vulnerability, called Heartbleed, announced with SSL certificates globally. These certificates are what…Read more
Capturing Market Position with Larger Wineries in Australia, Asia, Canada BlackSquare announces an important wave of top-tier, enterprise-level winery clients…Read more
BlackSquare’s CEO, Matthew Protti, presented at the ‘5th Annual Seminar on Wine and Liquor Law in B.C.: New regulations, licensing…Read more
There’s a Canadian company making waves in both ecommerce and the wine industry. Having recently launched into the Australian market,…Read more
In the past three years, Canada-based BlackSquare Inc. has become a trusted thought leader in best practices for direct-to-consumer (DTC)…Read more
Canada, a big bright spot in Australia’s wine exports, has turned the tables and starting exporting wine technology back to…Read more
Delegates at a senior-level wine industry conference have heard how the wine world could learn lessons from other sectors to…Read more
This week we talked to David Gluzman and Matthew Protti, Cofounders of BlackSquare, the company behind Blackboxx, an e-commerce software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform…Read more
New Financing Fuels International Expansion & Corporate Spin-off Calgary, Alberta, Canada: 18 Sept. 2013 – BlackSquare Inc., maker of the market-leading Blackboxx wine…Read more
Today Calgary’s BlackSquare, maker of the Blackboxx wine ecommerce platform, announced a new $1.175 million equity private placement financing and…Read more
This past month, BlackSquare co-founder David Gluzman travelled to Napa Valley to get a taste of the U.S. e-commerce market…Read more
Providing customer service through any medium is a challenge. Whether it is a face-to-face interaction or explaining methods and policies…Read more
The South China Morning Post has started selling wine. And its new ecommerce site Wine Circle, a cloud-based wine store is…Read more
Worldʼs First Major Newspaper to Deploy Cloud-Based Wine Ecommerce Calgary, Alberta, Canada: July 9, 2013 – BlackSquare Inc., maker of…Read more
Direct sales offer wineries higher profit margins because they cut out the government middle man. But they are also key…Read more
Waterloo Region, ON – February 5, 2012 – Companies from across Canada are establishing themselves in other markets thanks to…Read more
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Nov. 1, 2012) – Northcore Technologies Inc. (TSX:NTI)(OTCBB:NTLNF), a global provider of asset management and social commerce solutions…Read more
Payments company Stripe just unveiled a new service that should make it significantly easier to build startups that depend on turning people…Read more
What makes the relationship between Blacksquare and WineCollective unique is that they are both owned and run by the same…Read more
Market Upturn Fuels Demand for Ecommerce Technology CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA-(July 31, 2012) – BlackSquare Inc., maker of Blackboxx, the market leading…Read more
Builds Revolutionary Ecommerce for Canadian & International Wine Regions Calgary, Alberta, Canada: June 21, 2012 – BlackSquare Inc., maker of…Read more
We recently announced (via a press release) that we have closed milestone financing and expanded our management team to include…Read more
Ottawa’s recent move to decriminalize interprovincial wine shipments has fuelled investor interest in the burgeoning sector of direct-to-consumer wine shipments.…Read more
The passage this week of Bill C-311 removing interprovincial trade barriers for the Canadian wine industry, has got more than…Read more
These milestones in BlackSquare’s growth from wine club and ecommerce provider to market-leading technology company are timely: the passage this…Read more
BlackSquare plans to hire several new employees in the coming months, and Mr. Protti applauded the creation of a $400-million…Read more
BlackSquare is pleased to announce it was selected to participate in the Government of Canada’s mission to the Hong Kong…Read more
Calgary’s BlackSquare announced yesterday that they have signed their first external client for their proprietary wine club management and e-commerce…Read more
BlackSquare Inc. recently signed a contract with Poplar Grove Winery to roll out its proprietary wine club management and e-commerce…Read more
In March of 2009 Calgary’s WineCollective tackled the challenge of building an online educational wine club in Alberta. Two years later the…Read more