Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
Cantech Letter founder and editor Nick Waddell has lived in five Canadian provinces and is proud of his country's often overlooked contributions to the world of science and technology. Waddell takes a regular shift on the Canadian media circuit, making appearances on CTV, CBC and BNN, and contributing to publications such as Canadian Business and Business Insider.
Late in April, Transgaming (TSXV:TNG) announced an agreement with Google that would see the tech giant license TransGaming’s SwiftShader 3D rendering technology, which allows applications to generate 3D graphics on a CPU alone without the use of a graphics processing unit. The agreement was an expansion of a previous license between the two companies. M [...]
Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington yesterday before a Senate investigative committee that wanted to know why the company avoided more than $74 billion by employing a string of subsidiaries around the globe. The committee said that some of these subsidiaries, which were located in tax-favourable locations such as Ireland, had zero employees, and [...]
iCo Therapeutics (TSXV:ICO), which was founded in 2005, is a biotech that focuses on redosing or reformulating drugs that already have a clinical history. The company, which owns the exclusive worldwide rights to two products, iCo-007, a treatment for Diabetic Macular Edema and iCo-008, a treatment for severe ocular allergies and Wet Age Related Macular [...]
The British TV series Black Mirror, created by satirist Charlie Brooker, last year won the won the Best TV movie/mini-series award at the International Emmys. The show, which can be alarming in both its content and presentation, has struck a chord with viewers because its theme of unease with modern technology is something most everyone [...]
Byron Capital analyst Rob Goff says he likes Telus’s (TSX:T) proposed acquisition of Mobilicity. Yesterday, Telus announced it had entered into an agreement with the struggling upstart carrier to acquire it for $380-million. Mobilicity, which was founded as DAVE Wireless, entered the Canadian market after a 2008 spectrum auction for AWS frequencies. The company paid [...]
M Partners analyst Ron Shuttleworth says Guestlogix’s (TSX:GXI) Q2 results should be better than its recently announced Q1, owing to a rapidly improving deal pipeline. On Wednesday, Guestlogix reported its Q1, 2013 results. The company lost (U.S.) $1.2-million on revenue of $7-million, which was up from $5.6-million in the same period a year prior. CEO [...]
The first big Canadian tech IPO since Vancouver’s Avigilon will begin trading tomorrow, when Ottawa-based Halogen Software begins life under the ticker symbol “HGN”. But with a TSX tech sector that is on steroids of late, Halogen, a cloud-based provider of employee performance appraisals, likely won’t have to wait as long for company as Avigilon [...]
Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Tom Liston says QHR Technologies’ (TSX:QHR) recurring revenue provides a great foundation for the company’s future growth. This morning, QHR reported its Q1, 2013 financials. The company earned $182,445 on revenue of $8.4-million, a 14% increase over the same period last year. CEO Al Hildebrandt said he was happy with the company’s [...]
We hear the terms most every day. If the market is going up, the bulls are running. If it’s going down, people are feeling “bearish”. Many of us with a connection to the world of finance have had our picture taken with Arturo Di Modica’s famous “Charging Bull” statue near Wall Street in New York, [...]
Jacob Securities analyst Sameet Kanade says DHX Media’s (TSX:DHX) integration of Cookie Jar Entertainment is going better than he expected. Yesterday, before market open, DHX reported its Q3, 2013 financial results. The company earned $906,000 on revenue of $31.23-million, which was up 88% from the $16.62-million topline the company posted in the third quarter of [...]
