Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
Shares of proximity marketing junior iSign Media (TSXV:ISD) are racing today, up nearly 30% as more than two-million shares have changed hands. While there is no news to explain the sudden sharp rise of the company’s stock, Clarus Securities analyst Sean Peasgood says he believes iSign is very close to significant new deployments in North [...]
TOP PICKS FOR 2013: We polled some of Canada’s best tech analyst for their top picks for the coming year. Check them out here. Is there a sector rotation taking place in Canada? While resource plays have been a drag on the Canadian markets for more than a year, the story certainly isn’t unique to [...]
Last Tuesday, iSign Media (TSXV:ISD) announced it had completed the broadcasting trial trial of its Interactive Marketing Solutions (IMS) 3.1 software and Bluetooth antennas at certain Mac’s Convenience Stores. The company said it was determining the level of public acceptance for proximity marketing-deals that would be messaged to cell phones within range of the stores [...]
It’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. [...]
Playing catch up. Here in North America, Proximity Advertising is one this year’s hottest tech trends. The idea, to use the Bluetooth capability of your Smartphone to receive permission based messages from retailers, is already challenging traditional advertising methods in Asia, where the technology has been in use for years. Toronto’s iSIGN Media (TSXV:ISD) initially [...]
M Partners technology analyst Ron Shuttleworth says a trend has developed in the Canadian markets. Many are looking to rotate their capital into technology from the mining sector. The money, however, is pouring into smaller speculative stocks not larger, more established names. Shuttleworth thinks he knows why this is the case… At M Partners, we [...]
Remember the movie BladeRunner? In the 1982 cult classic, based on a short story by science fiction writer Phillip K Dick, advertising is literally pushed to consumers in the form of giant advertising blimps that periodically cruise over a dreary and claustrophobic Los Angeles of 2019. The Ridley Scott directed movie, as it turns out, [...]
