Toronto-based Wattpad said Monday it will open an office in Halifax, beginning in 2020 with a team based at Volta, the city’s innovation hub.
The press release on the Wattpad website said the East Coast operation would be its “second headquarters” though it gave no information on the number of people to be based in Halifax nor what they will do.
The company – which has developed platforms where people can post stories they’ve written and other people can read them – already has offices in the U.K., Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Jakarta, and Manila.
“This expansion is a major