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Patient Loyalty

Four years ago, SXC Health was lost in the shuffle -a mid sized healthcare IT provider from Milton, Ontario with just over $80 million in revenue. Today, after aggressive acquisitions and organic growth, the company is an international healthcare IT King. SXC is a pioneer in the pharmacy benefit management sector, with revenues in excess of $1.4 billion. Recently named by FORTUNE Magazine as one of the 100 fastest Growing Companies, SXC Health has become one of the biggest Canadian technology success stories in recent memory. Mark Thierer is the man who has been at the helm of SXC since 2006. Cantech Letter readers quiz him on what’s next.

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Canada’s Quiet Crisis (0)

Are high resource prices masking an underlying crisis in the Canadian economy? No less of an authority than Denzil Doyle, who many believe could be the most important figure in Canadian technology history, thinks our economy is not nearly diverse enough. We talk to the man who was founding president of Digital Equipment Corporation’s Canadian subsidiary, invested in numerous technology startups as Chairman of Capital Alliance Ventures, and served on the board of Mitel, Gennum, GEAC Computer and Newbridge Networks about Nortel, taxes, the tar sands, and why Canada needs Research in Motion to stay independent.

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Chart Analysis: Absolute Software (TSX: ABT) Update (0)

Chart Analysis: Absolute Software (TSX: ABT) Update TSX symbol: ABT Current Price: $4.12 (August 11th, 2010) Shares Outstanding: 46.65 million Market Cap.: $192.20 million Cash & Investments: $64.82 million With the broader markets experiencing a major sell off today we revisit Absolute Software to evaluate potential breakdown and breakout targets on a weekly basis. This [...]