Canadian Technology Stocks
When recounting the woes of Research in Motion in 2011, and there were many of them, the word Apple or iPhone usually didn’t make it past paragraph two. But a new threat to the Waterloo tech giant has emerged, and it’s a more direct and specific shot across the bow than Apple has ever delivered, [...]
2011 was Research in Motion’s worst year. The company’s entry into the tablet space, The BlackBerry Playbook, was widely regarded as a flop, and the company continued to lose market share in the mobile device sector. It was MOSAID’s best, the Ottawa patent player was acquired on December 19th for $590-million by Chicago-based private equity [...]
There’s value, and then there’s valuation. Beleaguered Bombardier (TSX:BBD.B) investors know there is still value in the Canadian conglomerate, which turns seventy in 2012. After all, Bombardier’s recently reported Q3 delivered double digit growth. In the Q3 ended October 31st, revenues were up 16% over the same period in 2010, and the company earned eleven [...]
When American psychology professor Abraham Maslow created a visual aid in the form of a pyramid to underscore his now-famous Hierarchy of Needs theory about the stages of growth in human development, he portrayed the most basic and fundamental of needs as physiological ones. Food, water and sleep were shown at the base of the [...]
We have a winner. A panel of five judges; Tom Liston, Director of Research for Versant Partners, Barry Richards, Managing Director of Research for Paradigm Capital, Tom Astle, Managing Director, Research Technology for Byron Capital, Byron Berry, Equity Research Strategist Byron Capital, Ron Shuttleworth, Technology Analyst, M Partners and the readers of Cantech Letter have [...]
We have a winner. A panel of five judges; Tom Liston, Director of Research for Versant Partners, Barry Richards, Managing Director of Research for Paradigm Capital, Tom Astle, Managing Director, Research Technology for Byron Capital, Byron Berry, Equity Research Strategist Byron Capital, Ron Shuttleworth, Technology Analyst, M Partners and the readers of Cantech Letter have [...]
Ruggedcom (TSX:RCM) is the talk of the TSX today after St. Louis-based Belden (NYSE:BDC), a manufacturer of signal transmission and networking products used in demanding environments, made a $22 all cash offer for the Vaughn, Ontario base company. But as the the stock’s closing price on Monday, $22.69, might suggest, some think the Belden offer [...]
This week’s IPO of Zynga (NASD:ZNGA), the San Francisco-based creator of social network games like Farmville, reminds us that 2011 was the year tech regained at least a bit of its decade-lost swagger. Zynga, of course, followed the high-profile IPO’s of Linkedin (NASD:LNKD), Groupon (NASD:GRPN), Pandora (NASD:P) and, presumably, preceded the mother of all modern [...]
“Still pulling for RIM, but man, these were disheartening remarks” said the Financial Post’s Matt Hartley on Twitter. “RIP RIM” remarked another Twitter user. Shares of Research in Motion were down 7% in after hours trading today after the company’s Q3 conference call. It wasn’t today’s numbers; Q3 revenue of $5.2 billion was up 24% [...]
Last year, it was Glentel (TSX:GLN), the BC based Wireless Wave operator and former New Westminster auto-glass shop that took home the trophy after growing its revenue by more than $100 million dollars. Glentel was joined at the virtual podium by SXC Health’s (TSX:SXC) Mark Thierer, who presided over the meteoric rise of the Milton, [...]
