Year One Labs — The Perfect “Incubator”?
I abhor the term “incubator”. I remember in fifth grade when our teacher brought in a chicken incubator to show us how chickens are born. We waited and waited and waited a while longer still. All the little Chickens were dead, it turned out. We weren’t quite sure why but most of us thought that […]
Cognovision acquired by Intel
Another great exit for the Toronto startup community and some great news in advance of CIX in a few weeks. Toronto based Cognovision has reportedly been acquired by intel. According to DailyDOOH, which covers the digital out of home market, the pricetag was $17m. Cognovision was the winner of the CIX pitch competition last year. […]
It’s about to get a little crazy out there . . .
Ok, here’s the thing. The “is this another bubble?” conversation has been going on for a while, and everyone was able to agree that there hasn’t been a bust imminent so far. It might have been dragged out by the sluggish economy, it might have been a function of a lot of effort going in […]
Has KIK finally arrived?
I have been using kik pretty much since it launched last April. It was particularly useful for me because I was spending most of my week in the US at that time and kik allowed me to TXT back home while avoiding Rogers/Fido/Telus/Bell’s atrocious $1/message TXT roaming fees. The kik app was always very solid […]
NextMontreal.com launches – “news and opinion on technology and startups”
NextMontreal.com is going live today. It is the result of a push by Ben Yoskovitz to create a new source of information for the Montreal community after MontrealTechWatch went dormant over a year ago. Why now? When first thinking about this project, Ben wrote: When the site was active it provided a great deal of […]
Hanging out in the City of Champions
One of the first things that strikes you as you are driving in to Edmonton from the airport, besides how long the drive is, is the entrance sign to the city. It is declared the “City of Champions”, and it kind of takes you off guard. St John’s is the “City of Legends”, Montreal the […]
Cloud-Based BPM Vendors: Geography Matters
Image via Wikipedia I’ve spoken with a lot of cloud-based BPM vendors over the past few years, and I inevitably ask where their services are hosted. Since almost all of these are American companies, or are primarily targeting the American market, the answer is, almost inevitably, in the United States. I continue to point out […]
Oootsourcing done right?
Being a good Manhattanite, I’m a ZipCar member/customer. Just had to call customer service because I had an outstanding balance (hey, it’s call “float” – learned this thanks to my fancy MBA). Anyway, I just called the customer support line and a very friendly woman answered the phone and helped me quite quickly. Turns out […]
Are Promising Early Signs Brewing on the Global Trade Front?
Canada’s Globe and Mail recently ran a decent survey that suggests that global export
markets might be headed back into first gear after an abrupt move into
reverse and neutral in the past twenty-four months. The article
suggests that it’s g…
Three Card Monty at GM
I read this and shook my head in amazement at the limited financial acumen of reporters covering business.
General Motors, encouraged by its improving financial situation, could repay all of its $6.7 billion in loans from U.S. taxpayers by the end of next June, the company’s top executive said Monday.[From With $42B, GM moves […]
