Canadian Technology Stocks
Waterloo gets all the action and Ottawa gets a lot of the credit, but underneath the hustle and bustle that is now, based on employment, North America’s the third largest financial services center after New York and Chicago, Toronto has tech too. And not only does Toronto boast names that have been around since the [...]
Edmonton’s Wavefront Technology (TSXV:WEE) takes physics to the oil patch. Beginning with research done at the University of Waterloo, Wavefront researchers managed to figure out the physics that caused fluid changes after earthquakes and how to apply the now patented process to the injection of fluids for enhanced oil recovery and groundwater clean up. [...]
Do you remember flying before September 11th, 2001? How about mid-way through the last decade? The changes to the airline business after 9/11 were easy to discern. Flying became a chore and people simply flew less. Globally, the airlines experienced a $22-billion revenue drop between 2000 and 2001. By 2005, airlines had begun to experiment [...]
So much for stereotypes. If we’re to believe WiLAN (TSX:WIN) CEO Jim Skippen, we can toss aside any images we may have of a swarm of patent trolls in matching three piece suits prowling the streets of Ottawa, the city in which WiLAN has become the largest tech company in terms of market cap. “We [...]
The turnaround of Waterloo-based logistics company Descartes Systems (TSX:DSG), has become the stuff of legend. When current CEO Art Mesher took over in 2004, he estimates that the company had mere days to live and “mattered to no one”. If the reception at Tuesday’s M Partners Annual Technology and Communications Investor Conference at Toronto’s Royal [...]
There are big markets and then there are big markets. While still miniscule, revenue wise, Vancouver’s EnWave (TSXV:ENW) stands on the shoulders of giants. The company’s Radiant Energy Vacuum technology, developed at the University of British Columbia in the 1990′s, might be the first significant development in food drying technology in a more than a [...]
This coming Tuesday, September 20th Cantech Letter will be reporting live from the M Partners Annual Technology and Communications Investor Conference: 2011 at the The Fairmont Royal York in downtown Toronto. The day long conference will cover spaces such as mobile broadband, electronic payment systems, Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing, and will feature executives from Canadian [...]
From humble beginnings. When Jason Finnis, a music student at The University of Victoria, began selling hemp t-shirts from the back of a Volkswagon van in 1998, he surely couldn’t have known the effect it would ultimately have. After a scientist at the National Research Council of Canada took an interest, Finnis’ passion ultimately evolved [...]
Phones that are too expensive and slow to market. Increased competition. An “antiquated” operating system. If the sentiment around Research in Motion’s (TSX:RIM) upcoming Q2 earnings announcement Thursday sounds familiar, it’s because it is. This time last year, the Waterloo tech giant couldn’t catch a break with analysts. Rival Apple was in the middle of [...]
September and October are, typically, bad months for stock markets worldwide. Recent concern about the European debt crisis and the possibility of a “double-dip” recession in the United States have ushered in the seasonal jitters; each of the past six days on the Dow Jones has seen a triple-digit move, five of those being red. [...]
