Canadian Technology Stocks
One of the numerous advantages that large, revenue-generating companies have over startups is the ability to make mistakes. Throw ten ideas at the wall of your Fortune 500 concern, watch six of them succeed and pick up your annual bonus. The skill of picking your first move to market when your company is pre-revenue is [...]
If you’re a tech rumour in the year 2012, two things are certain. First, make peace with your maker because your life span will not be very long. Today, you may be known by the name “Microsoft to Buy Nokia” but tomorrow another, more pressing rumour, perhaps “Amazon to acquire Yahoo” will hone in on [...]
If, in 2007, Redline Communications (TSX:RDL) stock chart was a ski hill, it would have been a double black diamond, with an ambulance waiting at the bottom. Shares of the Markham-based company were hammered from more than $6 to pennies, as its move into the WiMAX space prove to be a disaster. Redline’s losses, particularly [...]
CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A) today reported its Q2, 2012 financials. Revenue of $1.07-billion was 3.3% better than the same period last year, although net earnings were down slightly, to $105.7-million from $118.7-million last year. Despite the diminished bottom line, CGI President and CEO Michael Roach was upbeat about the company’s prospects, saying: “We continue to identify [...]
Progress. In many parts of our daily life it can seem slow and incremental, as if it isn’t really there at all. But in reality, progress is ever-present and affects everything we do. The capabilities of many electronic devices, for instance, are governed by the number of transistors that can be placed on a circuit. [...]
First, the boring stuff. In a corporate video released March 26th, Rory O’Neill, VP of Product Marketing for Research in Motion, revealed the official version of what prospective attendees can expect from this year’s BlackBerry World Conference in Orlando, which begins May 1st. “We’ll be sharing our perspective of the future of mobile, the internet, [...]
As shareholders of Quebec’s D-Box Technologies (TSX:DBO) have learned in the past twelve months, graduating to a more senior exchange is not exactly a cure-all tonic. On March 31st of last year, D-Box, which makes motion systems for the entertainment industry, spent its last day on the TSX Venture Exchange, before beginning the new month [...]
As president, Bill Clinton sent only two email messages. George W. Bush didn’t send any. But Barack Obama, who took office in early 2009, put an end to that trend. As the world’s most famous “CrackBerry” addict, Obama famously quipped: “They’re going to pry it out of my hands.” Turns out, they didn’t, but Obama’s [...]
Those who follow Canadian tech know Terry Matthews is the first and last name in telecom here. Matthews, who emigrated to Canada in 1964 from Wales, would eventually become the first billionaire in that country’s history. But if not for some poorly arranged shipping, the story might have ended very differently. On June 8th, 1973 [...]
Last Wednesday, SXC Health (TSX:SXC) announced it would merge with rival Catalyst Health in a cash and stock transaction valued at $4.4-billion. The move combined two up-and-comers in pharmacy benefit management, a space that is growing rapidly; more than 210 million Americans receive drug benefits administered by PBMs. Versant analyst Tom Liston is a long-time [...]
