One of the more troubling offshoots of Nortel’s financial demise has been the uncertain fate of about 400 employees on long-term disability. Part of the problem was that the plan was being funded by Nortel rather than an external entity. As a result, it was unclear whether these employees would continue to receive their benefits [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareCATA regularly speaks out on issues of concern to Canada's High Tech Sector: Watch the latest CTV Tech NOW interview of CATA CEO John Reid, by CTV host, Paul Brent as they discuss Innovation Nation, Flagships, CEO Leadership, Mobility Technologies & Social Media. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThis just in via Chung-Sang Tse, the Marketing & Publications Director for the National Business and Technology Conference (NBTC) 2010As one of NBTC’s signature events, the Entrepreneurship Competition allows teams from across the country to present their innovative business plans to a panel of experienced entrepreneurs and industry prof READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThe IXL Center (www.ixl-center.com) is bringing Ronald Jonash, co-founder of the Monitor Innovation practice, to Ottawa for a workshop on developing innovative business practices in your organization. Innovation has emerged as one of the most important business topics of the new decade and our workshop aims to teach companies how to attribute inno READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareMyMapNow is a geographic, real-time trend discovery application (fires, accidents, really happenin’ parties downtown etc). Using smart-phones, aggregation of real-time data, and really smart algorithms, we will present relevant data to the end-user.They are looking for an experienced person to really help move this project forward.Job Descri READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThis just in from Zee Yang!Come join us for another user group meetup on March 3. This time, we have invited a special speaker, Nicholas Small, from the Cappuccino team.Cappuccino is a new, open source Rich Internet Application framework. It abstracts a lot of the gnarly details of HTML and JS, and provides a [...] READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareThere is a great story about Shopify in the New York Time’s Blog about the Shopify Business Competition. Here is an excerpt.The business competition — Build a Business — started taking entries in January, and is open to any new, Shopify-enabled Web store based (in participating states) in the United States. The Shopify subs READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareOntario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Sunday the province will make sure at least part of the pension benefits of Nortel Networks pensioners are protected if their pension plan disappears in the collapse of the company. READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareNot sure whether this move was motivated by the fact it’s the right thing or that it’s an election year but the Ontario government said today that it will pay into the Pension Benefits Guarantee Fund so that pensioners will receive up to $1,000 per month.According to Canadian Press, Nortel’s pension plan is about 30% [...] READ MORE
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View Original Story • Discuss • ShareCourtesy of Impact, I just found out about an awesome opportunity for any budding startup with a student team member:“The VeloCity Entrepreneur BootCamp is looking to provide teams of students interested in building technology-based companies with $3000 of funding per founder, free office space, free living space, as well as a network of sup READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • ShareLuke Clare from Gowlings just pointed out that their second “Starting Your Startup” event is fast approaching and it seems that they have an awesome panel lined up:Preparing A Business Plan To Raise CapitalTuesday February 9th, 2010 – 5:30pm – 7:30pm160 Elgin St., 26th Floor“In Part 1 of the seminar series on business READ MORE
View Original Story • Discuss • Share2010/02/05, Ottawa, Ontario - A laser scanning technology developed for industry use is helping to preserve a Greek cultural treasure. READ MORE
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Mitel Networks said Thursday that it lost money in the first six months of the fiscal year as sales tumbled 19 per cent.
The Kanata-based company disclosed the financial results in a U.S. regulatory filing as it works toward an initial public offering of $230 million U.S. in stock. If it is successful in winning investor backing, it will be the
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Enablence Technologies has raised $28.75 million to finance operations of the Ottawa optical networking company. It said brokers sold 71.9 million common shares at 40 cents per share, an offering which dilutes the share base by 28 per cent. The company said it will READ MORE
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