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LaBarge Weinstein Quarterly: Spring 2013
April 11, 2013
Despite a winter of freezing cold temperatures and mounds of snow, it finally feels like spring is on the way! It’s nearly time to stop hibernating and instead, get out […]
ePACT Gets Financed by Yaletown
March 27, 2013
Another GrowLab grad is seeing some serious success fresh out of the program. ePact, an online emergency preparedness startup, is one of the most recent grads from the Winter 2012 cohort […]
BLiNQ Receives Government Funding
March 27, 2013
Last week, FedDev Ontario announced that it is investing up to $3,672,167 in repayable contributions to six Ottawa area start-up technology development companies under its Investing in Business Innovation initiative […]
A Federal Budget Summary
March 22, 2013
Given the instability of the global economy and the impact it is having on Canada’s growth, finance minister, Jim Flaherty, promised only minor adjustments leading up to Thursday’s Economic Action […]
IMRIS Closes Public Offering
March 18, 2013
Winnipeg, Manitoba, March 18, 2013 – IMRIS Inc. (“IMRIS” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: IMRS; TSX: IM) today announced that it has closed its underwritten public offering of 5,750,000 common shares at […]
A New Alternative to YouTube
March 18, 2013
Although we all love YouTube, it has one major drawback. Unless you create a playlist, once the video you’ve selected is done playing, you have to search for another one […]
Provincial Tax Changes to Take Effect on April 1st
March 18, 2013
On April 1st, PEI will implement a harmonized sales tax (HST) of 14%. Harmonizing at a 9% provincial rate will result in a decrease of 1.5 percentage points of tax […]
How Etsy is Decreasing the Programmer Gender Gap
March 14, 2013
Some studies suggest that cognitively diverse work teams are more successful than teams where members are highly similar. Whether or not this is true, creating diverse teams isn’t necessarily easy, […]
Applications for C100’s 48 Hours in the Valley are Open!
March 4, 2013
Are you a Canadian technology or knowledge-based entrepreneur? If so, you probably know that a great idea isn’t enough to make it big. You need a solid business concept, a […]
Local Business, RocketOwl, Gets B Corp Status
February 27, 2013
As a follow up to our recent blog B Corps: Redefining What it Means to Be Successful, we’re happy to report that Ottawa-based mobile and social gaming company, RocketOwl, is […]
