Canadian Technology Stocks
Play the word association game with the phrase Canadian Software and some are immediately reminded of the days when Corel’s WordPerfect looked like it was going to be the Pepsi to Microsoft’s Coke. While those days have gone the way of the leg warmer (what they’re back?), Canadian software companies have more than stepped up [...]
6. Descartes Systems (TSX:DSG) To the casual observer, Descartes Systems, at one time, looked ready to join pets.com and GovWorks on the scrapheap of dot-bombs. Shares of the Waterloo based company soared to $130 a share early in 2000 before crashing to just over a dollar a few years later. Art Mesher, who was an [...]
Notice that the title of Chief Information Officer seems to be popping up more often now? Get use to it. Throughout the world more companies are looking to monetize their intellectual assets. Many of them are turning to OpenText (TSX:OTC), the Waterloo based company that has become a worldwide leader in Enterprise Content management. Open [...]
In 1988, four robotics students at Vancouver’s BC Institute of Technology settled on a class project. The result, a lottery ticket vending machine that would, ultimately, become Vendtek Systems (TSXV:VSI), a software company that ballooned to over $121 million in revenue in fiscal 2010. Today, Vendtek’s e-Fresh software uses point-of-sale terminals to sell prepaid banking [...]
A little digging into the business of Edmonton’s Serenic Corp. (TSXV:SER) reveals some interesting economic trends. Serenic, which makes software that helps international non-profits and NGO’s better manage their resources, appeared poised to benefit from a shift that many hadn’t noticed. As The New York Times reported at the time, the number of charities in [...]
With its shares climbing from pennies to a recent high of $2.25, Intertainment Media (TSXV:INT) has been the runaway success story of the TSX Venture Exchange so far this year. Intertainment has been rising on the promise of Ortsbo, software that translates, in real time, more than fifty different languages across a dozen social media [...]
A little digging into the business of Edmonton’s Serenic Corp. (TSXV:SER) reveals some interesting economic trends. Serenic, which makes software that helps international non-profits and NGO’s better manage their resources, appeared poised to benefit from a shift that many hadn’t noticed. As The New York Times reported at the time, the number of charities in [...]
The barometric pressure has fallen, but only slightly. The wind has picked up just a bit. Everything still appears to be relatively calm for developers of smartphone applications, commonly known as apps, but make no mistake; there is a storm of litigation gathering on the horizon. Two factors in particular should make investors into companies [...]
A recent survey of eleven major US carriers revealed that the average monthly contract of smart phone users, who now comprise 31% of the entire wireless market, is $86, versus $55 for non-smart phones. So what are we getting for the extra $31 bucks? Most people who upgrade to a smart phone will tell you [...]
6. Poynt (TSXV:PYN) By almost any measure, Poynt is a runaway success. The app is consistenly ranked at or near the top of BlackBerry’s App World and, at varying times, has been ranked in the top ten apps on the iPhone. It’s even featured in one those slick Blackberry “SuperApps” commercials. But is Poynt, the [...]
