How Canadians are using AI to navigate World Cup soccer ticket/transit chaos

With the FIFA World Cup 2026™ kicking off this week in Canada, fans across the country are buzzing! Here in Toronto we're counting down the days! The city has made several announcements on road closures on game days as well as attractions announcing where to go to take in all the fun. 

Google’s latest Search data from Canada reveals that while fans are excited to watch local heroes like Alphonso Davies and icons like Messi and Ronaldo, their Searches are also dominated by logistics. 

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Uber gets Canadians across the country World Cup Ready

The excitement is building for the FIFA World Cup matches happening host cities of Vancouver and Toronto. Uber Canada is gearing up from "fan drives" to fan zones! 

With millions of Canadians gearing up to travel, watch, and celebrate this summer's landmark international soccer tournament, Uber is rolling out a suite of new in-app features designed to take the stress out of getting around and dial the excitement all the way up.

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Stunning city of Vancouver is now part of Apple Fitness+ 'Time to Run'

Fans for Apple Fitness+ and the Time to Run series can look forward to checking out the first Canadian city edition added to the popular workout roster! The audio running experience designed to help users become more consistent and better runners, has created a series of episodes focused on a popular running routes in some of the most notable and iconic locations. It's no surprise that now the beautiful city of Vancouver would be added!

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Apple acquires Vancouver development studio Buddybuild

Vancouver-based development studio Buddybuild shared on their blog that they have been acquired by Apple. Buddybuild offers a service for users to build, test and ship iOS apps to testers, similar to TestFlight, which Apple also acquired in 2014 through its purchase of Burstly.

Buddybuild will eventually integrate into Xcode, Apple’s suite of development tools for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.

We're excited to share that the buddybuild team has joined the Xcode engineering group at Apple to build amazing developer tools for the entire iOS community.

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