Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
Canadian companies are exposed to a number of forms of legal risk when they do business in other countries. There is a risk, for example, that another jurisdiction’s court system may not offer a fair mechanism of dispute resolution. But as the recent experience of Magma Energy Corp (TSX:MXY). in Iceland has demonstrated, companies must [...]
Are Canadian cleantech stocks dead money? Check out a long term chart of most of the issues in the sector stocks and you’ll find a persistent pattern; they fly high on promise then crash and burn on reality. That reality, more often than not, is that most new technologies face a longer and more arduous [...]
Vancouver’s Magma Energy, founded by mining impresario Ross Beaty in 2008, hasn’t had much time to fall from grace, but the situation concerning their controversial HS Orka property in Iceland may have contributed to the company’s market cap being nearly halved, from a high of nearly $2 in 2009 to bottoming out at $1.10 this [...]
Natcore Technology: Next in Solar? by Danny Deadlock Investors in solar stocks know that, to date, the story of the industry has largely about government support. Without grants, feed in tariffs and tax breaks many producing solar panels and ancillary equipment simply would not exist today. The solar industry has a well documented history as [...]
Duncan Stewart, Deloitte and Touche’s affable tech guru, says batteries don’t follow Moore’ Law. The law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore says that the number of transistors on any given size of silicone will double every 18-24 months. This rule of thumb has proved remarkably accurate for decades. Moore’s Law is part of the [...]
Bob, can you tell us about how Green Angel Energy came about? The founders of GreenAngel have been angel investors in technology companies for the past 30 years. Normally only accredited investors may make angel investments and we wanted to find a way that non-angels – the vast majority of investors – could gain access [...]
Richmond Hill, Ontario’s Intertainment Media has been the story of the Toronto Venture exchange this month. The company’s shares are rising on the promise of its real time translation software, Ortsbo. Intertainment, which has traded hundreds of millions of shares en route to rising from eleven cents in late January to a high of $.79 [...]
To say it has been a bumpy road for MediPattern (TSXV:MKI) investors of late might be an understatement. The Toronto based company, which designs medical imaging software, went public in 2005 then soared to $1.64 in the first days of 2008 on the promise of a new medical imaging system for breast cancer detection. But [...]
In the world of solar power, Germany is Mecca. Solar energy now powers two per cent of German households. Despite the benefit of only half the sun of Arizona, Germany will produce more than half the world’s solar installations next year. Germany is a massive controlled experiment for the solar industry worldwide, but has the [...]
After January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas we were reminded, repeatedly, that 2011 would be the Year of the Tablet. While some have already begun to complain of tablet fatigue, others figured the game was already over. In November 2010, Boston based research firm Strategy Analytics estimated that Apple owned 95% of the tablet [...]
