Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
With a burgeoning Chinese middle-class, the story of increased worldwide demand for food, particularly protein, is an every-other-week front page story. The dream of large scale protein production from plants is a step closer today. Vancouver-based Burcon Nutrascience (TSX:BU) this morning announced that its partner, Archer Daniels Midland, has constructed a commercial-scale plant in Decatur, [...]
Zecotek Photonics (TSXV: ZMS) announced its subsidiary, Zecotek Imaging Systems Pte Ltd., has started legal action in United States Federal District Court in Los Angeles against defendants Saint-Gobain Corporation and Philips for infringement of a Zecotek U.S. Patent. Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, CEO of Zecotek said: “We believe that this patent is fundamental, and that damages [...]
There are many people who believe Canadian technology stocks are undervalued. Of course, as John Maynard Keynes famously quipped, markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Still, with a massive exodus from commodities now fully underway, is it just a matter of time before money starts flowing into Canadian technology stocks, driving [...]
In January, we looked back at the Canadian tech stocks that had an exceptional 2010, capped off by the selection of Glentel as Canadian Tech Stock of the Year and Mark Therier of SXC Health as Canadian Tech Stock exec of the Year. This month we look forward. No we don’t have a crystal ball, [...]
To date, Vancouver’s Burcon Nutrascience has not produced revenue, yet the company commands a market cap of nearly $300 million. The reason? Burcon has already become a world leader in a space that seems to have few limits to its size. Burcon owns 127 patents around the extraction and purification of protein from plants. Many [...]
