Canadian Technology Stocks
While the CRTC’s recent reversal on GlobalLive brought a little excitement to the Canadian wireless sector, many believe Canada is seriously lagging in real consumer choice and competition. Perhaps part of the proof is that most of the companies on this list service the international, not domestic market. We look at the Top 10 performing Canadian wireless stocks in 2009.
It could be argued that the first billionaire in the history of Wales is also Canada’s only living tech legend. But how did Terry Matthews reach such lofty heights? More importantly, why isn’t he in the lawnmower business anymore? All is explained in our “Timeline: Sir Terry Matthews”.
Redknee Solutions (TSX:RKN) recently reported its fiscal 2009 results. It was another year of revenue growth for the Mississauga based provider of telecommunications billing support software. The improved numbers helped The Company hit number three on our list of top performing wireless stocks. We look at the updated data to see if Redknee might still be a value for investors.
The profiled companies of The DVC Smalltech Letter posted gains in December. This collection of small tech stocks is now up 24.4% while the TSX as a whole is down 3.2% over the same period (September 26th, 2008-Dec 24th, 2009). The DVC Smalltech Letter has gained 3.5% since November 27th, 2009.
Whether it’s a toaster on eBay or a complex insurance policy, your access to critical decision making information about the purchases in your life has increased ten-fold over the past decade. Paul Timoteo, President and CFO of Armada Data, which operates business to business and business to consumer automobile web sites, takes us inside how this change has affected the car business in Canada. And how it led to a breakout quarter for this decade old venture listed company.
Caseridge Capital released a special issue of its Caseridge Tecsys Dealbook today, unveiling The Caseridge Techsys “Top Picks” for 2010.
The Caseridge Techsys Index of Canadian listed technology and special situations companies is composed of 250 companies that represent a broad scope of activity across the technology, industrial, manufacturing, health care, software, internet and special situations sectors. Each year at this time Caseridge selects a subset of this broad index and names those companies to its “Top Picks” list for the up-coming year.
