Sentences with phrase «canadian tech companies»

The service is poised to expand to Canada in the coming weeks and Canadian tech companies will be... [Read more...]

«Today's announcement shows the Finance Minister and his department have heard the concerns of CCI members and are committed to ensuring this legislation aligns positively with the government's innovation agenda and in particular the global growth of Canadian tech companies,» said Benjamin Bergen, executive director of the Council of Canadian Innovators.

At Round 13 Capital, where I'm a partner, we have 14 cheque - writing investors, who have grown and exited Canadian tech companies, and they're all poised to mentor our investee companies.

The Jenkins Panel recommends that the federal government facilitate increased venture funding activity by having BDC invest both alongside Angel stage funds (called a «sidecar fund»), as well as partnering with later stage professionally managed venture funds which select and place funding into the best young Canadian tech companies.

While Silicon Valley is still the place to be for many tech workers, Canadian tech companies say they are seeing...

Many Canadian tech companies have already dived into the Asian markets, and Canada can only benefit from a deepening of its engagement with Asian countries.

Right now, most Canadian tech companies are snapped up by foreign firms before they have a chance to grow.

The Vancouver company, like other Canadian tech companies, is competing with San Francisco's Silicon Valley which regularly draws software engineers to work at heavyweights Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple and LinkedIn, and startup firms.

When most people think of Canadian tech companies only one business typically comes to mind: BlackBerry.

More importantly, it continues a positive trend of Canadian tech companies finally scoring serious growth capital.

In 2009, venture capital investing in Canadian tech companies and fundraising by Canadian VC firms dropped to the lowest levels since the mid-1990s (though there has been a slight uptick this year).

A lot of Canadian tech companies are at least talking about that right now.

«This will be a big impact for helping Canadian tech companies meet their talent needs,» says Bergen.

The Canadian tech company is releasing a new luxury smartphone in collaboration with Porsche Design.

Bessemer Venture Partners controls 30 % of Shopify, while OMERS Ventures — which seems to invest in every worthy Canadian tech company these days — has a 6 % stake.

The next step, Smith says, is taking Real Matters public and turning it into a «$ 10 - billion great Canadian tech company.»

In September, BlackBerry investor Fairfax Financial released a letter of intent to purchase the ailing Canadian tech company for US$ 4.7 billion, but gave BlackBerry six weeks to find a better offer.

BlackBerry's new interim CEO John Chen has the mighty task of pulling the floundering Canadian tech company out of the toilet.

The floundering Canadian tech company has set up John Chen with a mostly stock - based compensation package, but cash if he is terminated.

One, it's always great to see a Canadian tech company go the full 15 rounds and mature into a world beater.

Today's infographic comes to us from Nano One, a Canadian tech company that specializes in battery materials, and it provides interesting context on lithium - ion battery advancements over the last couple of decades.

Who knows exactly what Samsung has in mind for BlackBerry, though you can bet it involves having their hands on the considerable patent library enjoyed by the Canadian tech company.

If rumours published by Venture Beat are to be believed, the Canadian tech company is set to launch three phones... Read more

On the one hand, there's the BlackBerry KEYone — the latest smartphone from the Canadian tech company.

A self - driving car equipped with the BlackBerry QNX autonomous vehicle software has completed its first road test in the public streets of Ottawa as a part of the Canadian tech company's broader autonomous driving push.

This Canadian tech company sells logistics software and all contracts are long - term.

Its launch came as the Canadian tech company was trying to carve out a path to profitability, but, last summer, a BlackBerry executive revealed to CNET that sales of the Priv device were struggling.

As part of the company's plans, they have already partnered with Canadian tech company, Global Blockchain Tech.

Not exact matches

The second Canadian outpost of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's other big tech company goes for a wide open feel to foster collaboration

Consequently, Canadian Tire's brand custodians must now ensure the company is known as innovation driven, or at least tech - friendly.

Though its valuation remains undisclosed, there's a good chance the social media firm is worth north of $ 1 billion now, an exceptionally rare feat for any tech company (let alone a Canadian one).

It also comes at a time when tech companies have been active debt issuers, including a debut offering from Tesla on Aug. 11, and Apple announced Tuesday its first Canadian - dollar debt sale.

In some ways, it's the most Canadian of American tech companies.

With a coming free trade deal, opportunities abound for both Canadian and Indian tech companies.

He also thinks that once American tech companies start listing again, their Canadian counterparts will follow suit.

«Even for the patriotic, diehard Canadian who insists on their startup being in Canada, in many cases the company gets to a point where it's forced to sell to a U.S. big tech firm,» said Pashootan, portfolio manager at First Avenue Advisory in Ottawa, a Raymond James company.

As any local tech company grows, it must eventually confront the fact that the Canadian talent pool, in terms of both executives and engineers, is much smaller and less educated than those in Silicon Valley, Seattle or New York.

«She's worked in the tech industry, at a Fortune 500 company, in academic publishing, and for a Canadian regulatory agency — at least that's the resume you could build with the company websites that use her likeness.»

As depressing as the implications appear, it's important to remember RIM's decline will not stop Canadians from trying to build and sustain multinational tech companies.

The Canadian tech landscape without Research In Motion — or with a drastically scaled - down version of the company — is a fairly sparse place.

In a ranking of the top 300 Canadian tech firms by revenue conducted by consultancy Branham Group, RIM currently dwarfs the rest of the group with $ 20 billion in sales, twice as much as the No. 2 company, BCE.

Canadian immigration lawyers have reportedly seen an influx in interest from non-citizen tech workers in the U.S. Meanwhile, a company named TrueNorth has been set up to help businesses move employees potentially affected by any H - 1B visa changes over to Vancouver.

BlackBerry co-founder Mike Lazaridis caused a stir Thursday with the news that he's considering a bid for the floundering tech company, but analysts point out that it's still not clear what the future holds for the Canadian smartphone maker.

I don't think that in this age of tech we need to continue sheltering large Canadian companies who are unwilling to change their business model to compete with th emore flexible and customer choice oriented services that are being mamde available.

But there he was standing Tuesday before an array of Canadian flags, in front of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario officials, to announce the closest thing anyone has seen to a tech company that takes the reins in a major city.

C100 Charter Members include some of the most successful Canadians working in some of the most important tech companies in the Silicon Valley, include startups CEOs, top executives of companies such as Apple, Cisco, EA, eBay, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and venture investors representing more than $ 8 billion in capital.

creating new VC Funds to provide for the more costly later stage investments tech companies require to reach global stature and profitability, Canadian firms will once again have a reasonable prospect of success.

A new study by Canadian tech innovator hub MaRS reported that tech companies in Toronto saw a significant escalation of...

AggregateIQ, a Canadian advertising tech and audience intelligence company, has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly being closely connected with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica.

Coalition of CEOs believe Canadian rules, policies and procedures need to favour domestic tech companies the way the policies and standards of countries around the world support their own firms.