Canadian Technology Stocks
While some, including The Globe and Mail, implied earlier this year that their numbers might be a trick, (a statement that was subsequently retracted), Intertainment Media (TSXV:INT) has been mostly a treat for Canadian tech investors this year. On the strength of Ortsbo, software that translates, in real time, more than fifty different languages across [...]
OK, we’re not talking Silicon Valley, here. But the idea that Alberta is all oil sands, grass fed beef and hard back checking left-wingers isn’t the whole truth, either. Like most Canadian provinces, Alberta’s technology is a mix of sub-sectors, but there’s a vein of the hardscrabble prairie life running through many of its tech [...]
Considering its financial position, Aastra Technologies (TSX:AAH) is an extremely volatile stock. The stock traded above $40 in 2007, below $8 in 2008, above $36 in 2010, and has now come all the way back down to $13 in 2011. One might expect this kind of stock price volatility for a heavily-levered company with a [...]
Playing catch up. Here in North America, Proximity Advertising is one this year’s hottest tech trends. The idea, to use the Bluetooth capability of your Smartphone to receive permission based messages from retailers, is already challenging traditional advertising methods in Asia, where the technology has been in use for years. Toronto’s iSIGN Media (TSXV:ISD) initially [...]
There’s bad timing and then there’s what happened to Research in Motion (TSX:RIM) last week. Already on the defensive for a declining market share, a less than stellar launch of its Playbook tablet, and a share price that is near five year lows, Research in Motion faithful were further tested by the worst service outage [...]
Some stories take longer than others to unfold. The dot-com era’s massive investment in internet infrastructure looked like a lost bet until a wave of mobile devices and complementary technologies began to utilize that bandwidth, midway through the 2000′s. Business to consumer technologies were all the rage in 1999, or rather, the idea of business [...]
Early in August, after the police shooting of a 29 year old London man, Mark Duggan, sparked riots that lasted the better part of four days, an unexpected connection to Canadian technology was revealed. The combination of social networks, wireless devices and the cameras they contain mean the gradual blurring of public and private [...]
For Vancouver’s Verisante (TSXV:VRS), the waiting game is almost over. The company’s skin cancer detection device, Aura, seems on the cusp of moving from concept to practice, as important regulatory approvals are expected to pass later this year. Rainy Vancouver might seem an odd point of origin for science that may be set to turn [...]
The performance of most TSX stocks hasn’t been great of late, but shareholders of Hemisphere GPS (TSX:HEM) have been hit particularly hard. Shares of the Calgary based maker of next-generation GPS hit a high of $1.51 on February 4th, but bottomed out at $.64 cents on October 4th. What may have shareholders scratching their heads [...]
Those closely watching the TSX Venture Exchange’s volume leaders lately may have noticed a new tech entry surface. Calgary’s Ventripoint Diagnostics (TSXV:VPT) is medical device company that went public in 2007 and has yet to generate anything much in the way of revenue. Ventripoint, however, managed to remove many investor’s fears that a lack of [...]
