Canadian Technology Stocks and Startups
This week’s IPO of Zynga (NASD:ZNGA), the San Francisco-based creator of social network games like Farmville, reminds us that 2011 was the year tech regained at least a bit of its decade-lost swagger. Zynga, of course, followed the high-profile IPO’s of Linkedin (NASD:LNKD), Groupon (NASD:GRPN), Pandora (NASD:P) and, presumably, preceded the mother of all modern [...]
This coming Tuesday, September 20th Cantech Letter will be reporting live from the M Partners Annual Technology and Communications Investor Conference: 2011 at the The Fairmont Royal York in downtown Toronto. The day long conference will cover spaces such as mobile broadband, electronic payment systems, Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing, and will feature executives from Canadian [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
