Canadian Technology Stocks
BufferLast year’s M&A environment in Canadian tech seemed to be in hyperdrive. Canadian investors lost some of our best and brightest companies including Zarlink, March Networks, Bridgewater and MOSAID. And that was just Ottawa. Earlier this year, Synchronica (TSXV:SYN) a company headquartered in the UK but listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (as well as [...]
BufferIn an R&D intensive venture there are two occasions that stand above all others; the moment an idea is born and the moment it is commercialized. Between these two milestones can lie a rough and rocky road, fraught with false starts and frustration, especially for public companies, who must depend upon increasingly fickle capital markets. [...]
BufferIs solar in or out of fashion this week? What about wind? Is hydro cool today? Few sectors are as cyclical as renewable energy. One day we’re hearing about feed-in tariffs sparking a frenzy in the Chinese solar industry, the next we are hearing about its imminent demise. Longueuil, Quebec’s Innergex Renewable (TSX:INE) was one [...]
BufferAre the winds of change blowing on the TSX? While 2011 could by no means be described as a great year for tech on the Toronto exchange, it wasn’t a great year for mining and metals plays either. A smattering of technology related IPO’s in the latter half of the year felt like we had [...]
BufferWhen 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 [...]
BufferAs an app, Calgary-based Poynt has been an unqualified success. The GPS enabled location-based search application has nearly twelve-million users, and has grown 158% in the past year alone. Poynt got a foothold in the market through its popularity on BlackBerry devices. When the company made the app available for the iPhone, in March of [...]
BufferThey say bad news comes in threes. Research in Motion should be so lucky. 2011 has showered the company with at least a dozen stories that have grabbed headlines, and none of them have been particularly kind to the BlackBerry maker. From Mike Lazaridis walkout on BBC reporter Rory Cellan-Jones after being pressed on on [...]
BufferQuick, think of a Canadian technology company with annual revenues of more than a billion dollars. OK, you said Research in Motion, right? But what about a second, a third? The truth is the number of Canadian tech companies with more than a billion in revenue is woefully slim. This worries Canadian tech legend Terry [...]
BufferWhile 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 [...]
BufferOK, 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 [...]
