Friday, November 04, 2011
How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farmville…
Nora Bayes couldn’t have trumpeted the triumph of social gaming any better. Shedding the “really? no, seriously?” doubters over the past five years, venture investors are turning over rocks around the globe to find that even ‘angrier bird’, or the …
Read On
Friday, November 04, 2011
Scraping and scrapping…
On the heels of some big data scraper and indexer acquisitions in Canada and elsewhere over the past year (think Radian6 and PostRank, among others), the British Columbia Supreme Court’s recent decision involving Century 21’s efforts to tame Zoocasa’s reproduction …
Read On
Friday, November 04, 2011
Innovation Policy and Innovation DNA…
Over the past year, the Canadian government has turned to Open Text’s Tom Jenkins and his committee to transform perennial hand-wringing into some plan of action for more effective research commercialization, and to rethink our approach to subsidizing R&D spending. …
Read On
Friday, October 28, 2011
Sterling Partners Agrees to Acquire MOSAID Technologies for $46 per Share
MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) announced on October 27, 2011 that it had entered into an arrangement agreement Sterling Partners pursuant to which Sterling will acquire all the outstanding common shares of MOSAID for a cash payment of $46.00 per share. …
Read On
Posted in LW inSights
Comments Off
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
B.C. Case Adds to the Rules of Robotics
The B.C. Supreme Court recently decided a case that will be of interest to various Internet-based businesses. In particular, the case will be relevant for companies that provide Internet search capabilities or that harvest Internet data. In Century 21 v. …
Read On
Posted in LW inSights
Comments Off
Thursday, September 22, 2011
LW sponsors GrowLab incubator in Vancouver
Exciting things are happening out in Vancouver for start-up companies. A group of well-known angels has paired up with three Canadian VC firms to form a new incubator known as “Growlab”. The first cohort of five startups was announced in …
Read On
Posted in LW inSights
Comments Off
