Canadian Technology Stocks
BufferThe definition of insanity, Albert Einstein famously quipped, “is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. For Toronto’s Guestlogix, the idea of moving their business up the value chain seemed like a no-brainer. After all, the company has successfully delivered ancillary revenue to airlines for a decade. In actual practice, [...]
BufferYesterday, Absolute Software (TSX:ABT) reported its Q2, 2012 results. Revenue was $18.4 million vs. $16.8 million for the same period last year. The Vancouver-based company earned $1.5 million, or three cents a share in the quarter, which ended December 31st. Versant analyst Tom Liston, who already had a buy recommendation on Absolute, sees the Q2 [...]
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 [...]
Buffer2008 was no time to be in a tech oriented venture with any degree of speculation. Shareholders of Concord Ontario’s Sprylogics (TSXV:SPY) know this as well as anyone. The company, which was founded in 2006, focused on using technology to curb financial fraud. Sprylogics’ co-founder, Avi Shachar, was a former Lieutenant Colonel with the Israeli [...]
BufferIt’s a deal the engineers of iSign Media’s (TSXV:ISD) technology could merely have dreamed of five years ago. Back in 2007 iSign, which was a digital signage company with about fifty installations in Vancouver, developed a method of using the Bluetooth frequency to broadcast content from the sign to mobile phones that came within proximity. [...]
BufferOn Wednesday, Waterloo’s Open Text (TSX:OTC) surprised the street with a particularly strong Q2. The company’s results, which covered the quarter ended December 31st, 2011 saw revenue climb to $321.5-million, up 20.2% year over year. Versant Partners analyst Tom Liston was among those who were pleasantly surprised by the numbers. Liston, who has maintained a [...]
BufferEdmonton’s Serenic (TSXV:SER) is known for its presence in the charitable giving space. The company’s Navigator software has been employed by non-profits and non-governmental organizations such as the Danish Red Cross, Medair, and giant international relief agency CARE, which said it chose Navigator “after reviewing eleven systems and intensively evaluating six.” Carving out a spot [...]
BufferSome upbeat news from Mood Media (TSX:MM) today as the Toronto-based company said its Q4 EBITDA would come in at approximately $34-million. Versant Partners analyst Tom Liston is impressed with the guidance, he had expected EBITDA of $29.7 million. Liston says he suspects the better performance is a combination of improved cost controls and revenue [...]
BufferIt was a name that fit like a glove. In 2005, Vancouver’s Absolute Software (TSX:ABT) teamed up with Lojack (NASDAQ:LOJN) to introduce Lojack for Laptops. The product, which worked by periodically dialing Absolute servers and could not be disabled even by wiping the hard drive, was a new level of security for laptops which were, [...]
BufferWith forty million monthly unique visitors, Intertainment Media’s (TSX:INT) Ortsbo, software that translates, in real time, more than fifty different languages across a dozen social media platforms, is an unqualified success. Ortsbo’s recent deal with Variety (the company will provide users at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with the ability to watch [...]
