An interview with Mosaid President and CEO John Lindgren

January 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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In January, Cantech Letter looked back at the Canadian tech stocks that had an exceptional 2010, capped off by the selection Glentel as Canadian Tech Stock of the Year and Mark Thierer of SXC Health as Canadian Tech Stock Exec of the Year. This month we look forward. No we don’t have a crystal ball, but we have selected what we believe to be ten of the most compelling Canadian tech stocks at critical inflection points in their journey. Some of the names are established companies with long histories that may be subtly changing or sharpening their focus. Others are smaller, but have grabbed a foothold and are looking to accelerate their already impressive growth. These companies run the gamut from RNA interference to dehydration technologies, to next-generation GPS.

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CGI Group’s big bet on the US… Perfect Timing?

January 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Midway through 2010, Canada’s largest IT stock, CGI Group (TSX:GIB.A), completed the largest acquisition in its history, insisting that the price for Stanley, an Arlington, Virginia based systems integrator, was right. Early in 2011, gathering evidence suggests the acquisition may have been perfectly timed, too. CGI was founded in Montreal in that city’s Olympic Year [...]

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Open Text tackles enterprise security in a WikiLeaks world

December 9, 2010 By Leave a Comment
John Shackleton, President and CEO of Waterloo's Open Text (TSX:OTC)

You can’t open a paper or turn on a TV without hearing about Australian Julian Assange and his guerrilla style news organization WikiLeaks. Public opinion has become sharply divided over whether the organization provides a valuable service to society or threatens national security. What has become increasingly clear is that Wiki-leaks does represent a Tipping [...]

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A 25 Year Old Startup: International Datacasting (TSX:IDC)

October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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In the past five years broadcast technology has, arguably, advanced more than in the previous fifty. Last November, Fred Godard and Adam Adamou were two-thirds of an investor group that acquired about 20% of Ottawa’s International Datacasting (TSX:IDC), a more than two decades old broadcast technology firm that had appeared to have leveled off. Less than a year later, with Godard in place as President and CEO and Adamou as Executive Chairman, IDC reported one of its best quarters ever. We sat down with Adam and Fred to talk about the company Adamou calls a “25 year old startup”.

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Quant Snapshot: Norsat (TSX:NII)

October 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Life amid the rubble. When Amiee Chan, an engineer who had been laid off and then rehired by Norsat, took over midway through the last decade, the company was in a bad way. The Richmond, BC based maker of satellite ground equipment, which commanded a market cap of more than a billion dollars in 2000, [...]

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The Leitch Legacy: Five Companies Filling the Void

September 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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The Leitch Legacy; Five Companies Filling the Void. Five years ago this month, October 25th, 2005 to be precise, Canadians lost the head office of one of our most promising companies. Toronto’s Leitch Technology (TSX:LTV), was a worldwide leader in a host of broadcast technologies. The Company’s Viewguard encryption system, for instance, was used worldwide. [...]

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Canadian 3D: Beyond TV

September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Canadian 3D Beyond TV There’s more to 3D than television. And right now, there are several Canadian 3D technology stocks exploring the possibilities of the technology  in the medical and mining fields, for instance. While most of the companies profiled below are still at the earlier stages of their journey, there is a least one [...]

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Quant Snapshot: VIQ Solutions (TSXV:VQS)

September 6, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Order in the court. Since 2004, Calgary based VIQ Solutions (TSXV:VQS) has been trying to provide it. The Company’s Encompass suite of products provides digital audio and video capture that is used mostly in courtrooms. In 2009, VIQ was selected for an ambitious project; outfit 594 fixed and portable installations across the United Kingdom with [...]

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Quant Snapshot: Wi-LAN (TSX:WIN)

August 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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“Introducing inventions with mass appeal to the world.” That slogan is the way that Ottawa’s Wi-LAN, which holds a roster of patents covering everything from Bluetooth technology to WiMAX base stations to routers, sees itself. If certain people, and by certain people we mean people like Judge T. John Ward of the U.S. District Court [...]

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A look at the balance sheet of Zarlink Semiconductor (TSX:ZL)

June 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Ottawa’s Zarlink Semiconductor has been around for quite some time, but has subtly shifted focus of late, entering more specialized markets that leverage expertise the company has gained over three decades. Like most Ottawa based telecom companies, you don’t have to go looking too far for Terry Matthews fingerprints on The Company. Zarlink was born [...]

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