Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
It was probably the most unsettling week in the worldwide financial markets since the downturn of 2008, and the TSX was not exempt from the roller-coaster. After posting huge losses that carried into Monday’s near five-hundred point dip, the TSX actually scraped out four consecutive days of gains, punching out an impressive 89 point gain [...]
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 [...]
Change begets change. In 2009, the use of social networks eclipsed the use of email. By 2015, says Morgan Stanley, the number of searches made on mobile devices will pass those made on desktop computers. The ramifications for mobile, economically, could be even greater than the initial adoption of the internet itself, says Michael Durance, [...]
It sounds to me like you had to sit around and wait for phones to get a little smarter… Well that’s an interesting comment. The bottom line is that anything that helps this ecosystem helps us. For mobile search, mobile advertising, for all these things to take off you really need a recipe of things [...]
