Canadian Technology Stocks
You could hear a pin drop. Shareholders of Resverlogix waited with baited breath for November 17th. That was the day that Resverlogix President and CEO Donald McCaffrey was to present data from the company’s ASSURE trial. In that study, which was completed earlier this year, just under three hundred patients with coronary artery disease took [...]
Neptune Technologies, a life sciences story to Krill for… by Jim Letourneau Few people would suspect that the most successful animal on the planet is only 6cm long. Fewer still have heard of Euphausia superba, a species of krill found in Antarctic waters. But with a total estimated biomass of 125 to 725 million tonnes, [...]
ROI; a familiar acronym for Return on Investment. ROI also happens to be the ticker symbol for Toronto’s Route 1, a maker of remote access software solutions. For years, from the stock’s slide from a high of $.85 cents in 2004, to lows of under three cents in late 2008, the two seemed to have [...]
When the economic world is falling apart, as it seemed to be in late 2008 and through 2009, it’s hard for public company execs to take action. As we wrote about in Cantech Letter at the time, many Canadian tech companies were forced to ride out the storm by paring back expenses, which sometimes meant [...]
For years, Belleville, Ontario’s Bioniche Life Sciences (TSX:BNC) was better known to your veterinarian than your doctor. Bioniche, which formed in 1979 to develop veterinary bio pharmaceutical products, received worldwide attention two years ago when it received a Canadian license for Econiche, the world’s first cattle vaccine against E. coli. Sales of Bioniche veterinary products [...]
The fourth dimension. No, Quebec’s D-Box Technologies (TSXV:DBO.A) hasn’t rewritten the rules of vectors and coordinate geometry. The physics D-Box is interested is that of motion. D-Box makes integrated motion systems built into high tech chairs that are synchronized with the action and sound on a movie screen. Bouncing back between the home theater market [...]
The web-browser group at RIM today launched a video comparing the features of the Blackberry Playbook vs. the iPad. Expect this to be the first in a long line of shots across Apple’s bow. We already broken down for you how the Playbook’s is based on a whole new, some say revolutionary, new operating system [...]
A stumble, perhaps, but hardly a fall. When Toronto’s Bioexx (TSX:BXI) yesterday reported Q3 numbers that seemed a step backwards, investors weren’t ecstatic. But they weren’t altogether disappointed, either. Shares of Bioexx slipped nineteen cents on November 16th, to close at $2.34, but gained that right back the next day to close at $2.53. Bioexx, [...]
It wasn’t received with much fanfare. When Research in Motion acquired QNX Software from Harman International this past April, the move was supposed to be the Blackberry maker’s entry into the automotive sector. As RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis pointed out, the deal would ” further integrate and enhance the user experience between smartphones and in-vehicle [...]
At the end of this month, the company announced in October, Yves Rosconi is out the door as Theratechnologies boss. Never let it be said that the man doesn’t know how to make an exit. On Remembrance Day, November 11th, Theratechnologies got marketing approval for Egrifta, a treatment that has been shown to reduce excess [...]
