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- Canadian VCs invested $375 mln in Q2 2004, up 48%
- Activity in Canada's venture capital industry in Q2 2004 reflected growth, with $375 mln invested. That is up 48% from Q2 2003, when investors poured $254 mln into Canadian VC. However, VC activity was down 8% from Q1 2004, when $407 mln was invested. More companies received a piece of...
- Tags: Q2 2004, Q1 2004, Canadian VC
- Blog posts 2004-10-13
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- IBM considering financing IT project partners because of banking crisis
- I recently ran into Drew Clark, head of IBM's Venture Capital Group, based in Menlo Park, California. I asked him about the financial crisis and what IBM could do in response. "We would never make an equity investment but we are looking at financial help in projects where we partner...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Banking, Financing, IBM Corp., Financial Accounting, Investment, Strategy, Finance, Management, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Tempest or Nuclear Winter
- A Hurricane Ike for Tech Start-Ups VentureWire Alert free subscription required today reported that venture capitalists are advising their portfolio firms to prepare for a potential nuclear winter. One venture capitalist featured in today's newsletter was quoted as telling firms "to slow down their burn rate, and...
- Tags: Firm, Venture Capital, Product Development, Investment, Product Marketing, Workforce Management, Finance, Financing Startups, Research & Development, Business Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright lawCanadian Politicsare worse than we ever thought of having in this country. The vows they make are seldom carried out for one grand reason or another. I live on the border and have watched both sides of it.
- Tags: copyright law
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Canadian Conservatives vow to implement new copyright law
- Candians who vote to re-elect the Conservative government next week will also be voting for an archly pro-copyright agenda. According to the party's official platform released yesterday: A re-elected Conservative government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of...
- Tags: Legislation, Copyright Law, Creator, Government, Intellectual Property, Vertical Industries, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Piracy, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Security, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shots
- Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shotsOoopsntRE: Vodafone posts Blackberry Storm with iPhone screen shotsRIM deserves the embarrassment. Copycopycopy. Once again, we see yet another manufacturer launching a 'new' product that's just another copy of the iPhone. Copycopycopy. I thought only Asian companies did that...
- Tags: Handhelds, Copycopycopy, BlackBerry Storm, Apple iPhone, iPhone Screen, Vodafone Group Plc., RIM BlackBerry
- Discussion threads 2008-10-08
- Using space robots to fix ailing satellites?
- According to Canadian engineers at Queen's University, there are now more than 8,000 satellites in orbit around the Earth. Of course, if they stop to work correctly, these satellites will not be able to be repaired from the ground and will become space junk. So these researchers have developed a...
- Tags: Robot, Satellite, Network Technology, Networking, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-10-04
- Greentech Investing: Not So Fast
- There's an inevitable slowdown in venture capital investing and that's not good news for Silicon Valley nor the Cleantech start-ups. Last quarter VC activity was about one-third of the same quarter last year. While economists claim there's plenty of capital around, the investments being made are more cautious....
- Tags: Bank, Alternative Energy, American Media, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- VISCOM Image Viewer CP ActiveX Control (exe)
- BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, PSD, TIF, WMF, WBMP, TGA, PGX, RAS, PNM Image Viewer ActiveX / OCX. Read, write EXIF image information, binary data types for storage mark a selection, crop, zoom in, zoom out on selection, and rotate the image function. Draw overlay image with...
- Tags: JPEG, TIFF, Viscom Software, Programming Languages, C#, .Net, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-10-02
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Click Heels 3 Times and Say 'I want to IPO, I want to IPO'
- Alas Liquidity Events, I Knew Them Well.... If only wanting a liquidity event and getting it were that easy. As we say back in Texas, "'wantin' and ‘gettin' are two different things". For technology executives looking for a liquidity event for their firm, the...
- Tags: M&A, Liquidity, Liquidity Event, IPO, Investment, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Services, Finance, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- again
- Spammers attacking Microsoft's CAPTCHA -- againI'm all for shutting down...mail servers that are spamming. No matter how big they are. If my server started spamming, my ISP would give me one shot to clean it up. If I didn't or couldn't it would be blocked. Just because it's Microsoft doesn't...
- Tags: Spam, spammer, CAPTCHA, Microsoft CAPTCHA, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Silver lining 2: now may be the best time of all for SOA startups
- Silver lining 2: now may be the best time of all for SOA startupsstartups - fundingI added a link to this on http://TheSOABlog.com Basically, startups are having more trouble getting VC funding right now. The 80% SOA failure rate also does not help matters.Gary Patalskyhttp://TheSOABlog.com
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Silver lining 2, SOA
- Discussion threads 2008-09-29
- Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution
- I have a lot of sympathy for Sridhar Vembu. CEO of AdventNet, the parent company behind Zoho. His last two posts reflect much of the fear and frustration behind what I am hearing in the startup world. But amid the gloom, Sridhar offers a glimmer of hope. A few snippets....
- Tags: Capitalism, Financial, Alchemy, Wall Street, Zoho, Alchemy Analogy, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- My Awesome IT Job: Vice President of Security, SuccessFactors
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Security, QA, SuccessFactors Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- Run, don't walk, and pick up a REDFLY Mobile Companion for $199.95
- Run, don't walk, and pick up a REDFLY Mobile Companion for $199.95Hope u get a cutCause I just ran to the browser and ordered one to try with my Tmobile Dash. The more I try to find a replacement for my Dash, the longer I keep it because while it...
- Tags: Handhelds, Cellular phones, REDFLY Mobile Companion
- Discussion threads 2008-09-25
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventure
- The lessons in Sarah Palin's email adventureThis is just the price paid ...for using a third party cloud provider.Networks the size of Yahoo or Google manage technology with technology instead of hands on. Any business that uses the cloud provided by a network like this can expect a loss of...
- Tags: Sarah Palin, email adventure, security, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-09-20
- Is open source politically attractive?
- Is open source politically attractive?Do you think Canadians are so obsessed with software...... that a reference to open source as software is significant?I suggest the endorsement is a statement of political principle. Though it may not be accurate, open source might be considered an expression of an old principle:...
- Tags: open source, Bloc Quebecois, voter
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- iPhone developer makes $250k in two months
- Former colleague and iPhoneDevCamp founder Raven Zachary tweeted that Trism developer Steve Demeter reported earning US$250,000 in revenue since 11 July 2008 during a VC panel at the Mobilize conference. Trism iTunes link is a $5 puzzle game for iPhone and iPod touch that features tilt and...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, Games, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
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