Canadian Technology Stocks
You’re a reporter on the front in Afghanistan with just a Digital SLR, or run a local cable access show that is chasing down a story that happens to have national appeal. Or you’re a producer with amazing footage of that car crash -that was filmed on an iPhone. Broadcasters everywhere receive thousands of signals [...]
You’re a reporter on the front in Afghanistan with a just a Digital SLR, or run a local cable access show that is chasing down a story that happens to have national appeal. Or you’re a producer with amazing footage of that car crash -that was filmed on an iPhone. Broadcasters everywhere receive thousands of [...]
Don Cherry and Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk teaming up? Not quite. While Don Cherry is still spokesman for Cold-FX, the most famous product of Edmonton based drugmaker Afexa Life Sciences (TSX:FXA), Melnyk is long gone as Chairman of Biovail, having stepped down in 2007 as Chairman of the company now known as Valeant (TSX:VRX). [...]
For years now, soaring resource prices have meant that anyone pulling most anything out of the ground has done so profitably. Company’s like Calgary Agrium (TSX:AGU), which produces potash and Toronto’s Inmet (TSX:IMN), which has copper interests around the world, are among the most profitable concerns in the country. While technology stocks, outside of Research [...]
Ever since the release of Apple’s iPhone in 2008, Research in Motion (TSX:RIM) has been under the gun. Shares of the company have fallen from a high of $148 midway through that year to a recent low of $21.40. The Waterloo mobile giant, despite growing from $6 billion in fiscal 2008 to nearly $20 billion [...]
Missed it by that much. This morning Nick Waddell of Cantech Letter snagged a lengthy interview with Jim Skippen, CEO of runaway Ottawa-success story Wi-LAN (TSX:WIN). Wi-LAN now has nearly fifteen-hundred patents and has already licensed their technologies to blue chip techs such as Cisco, Nokia, Panasonic, and Samsung. In doing so, Wi-LAN’s revenue has [...]
Missed it by that much. This morning, Nick Waddell of Cantech Letter snagged a lengthy interview with Jim Skippen, CEO of runaway Ottawa-success story WiLAN (TSX:WIN). WiLAN now has nearly fifteen-hundred patents and has already licensed their technologies to blue chip techs such as Cisco, Nokia, Panasonic, and Samsung. In doing so, WiLAN’s revenue has [...]
When it comes to spending money, nobody does it quite like the biotech sector. The Texas Hold-Em style gamble of waiting to see if your particular pick will come out the other side of a three year clinical trial will test the mettle of most seasoned tech investors. From a Canadian capital markets perspective, the [...]
It was probably the most unsettling week in the worldwide financial markets since the downturn of 2008, and the TSX was not exempt from the roller-coaster. After posting huge losses that carried into Monday’s near five-hundred point dip, the TSX actually scraped out four consecutive days of gains, punching out an impressive 89 point gain [...]
It’s been more than a year since Research in Motion (TSX:RIM) released its last offering, the Torch 9800, a phone that combined a QWERTY keyboard with a sliding multi-touch screen display. The Torch was slow out of the gate, but ultimately went on to become the sixth best selling smart phone in the US last [...]
