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Recon Instruments heads for space
When I last spoke to Dan Eisenhardt his company was busy supplying ski shops with high-tech goggles. Several months later, the Vancouver-based startup is on the verge of becoming a supplier to NASA....
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Customer service that doesn’t suck
The Apple Store in Pudong, China (Photo: courtesy Apple) Several weeks ago I was the mortified owner of an iPad 2 when the screen cracked and splintered after it fell from my lap during a meeting. I...
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Why LTE isn’t moving the (earnings) needle—yet
Investors are being cautious in the wake of Rogers’ big LTE rollout (Photo: Darryl Dyck/CP) On July 7 Rogers launched its LTE (Long-Term Evolution) wireless service, which is billed as delivering a...
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Canada-India free trade gathering steam
(Photo: Dieter Spannknebel/Getty) When people think of countries that are tech powerhouses they think primarily of Japan and the U.S. But a free trade agreement currently under negotiation between...
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More content, more concerns
(Photo: Richard Drury/Getty) Is this legal? That’s the first thought that goes through your head when you hear about unblock-us.com, an online service that lets Netflix’s Canadian subscribers access...
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How strong are Western banks?
A BNP Paribas SA bank in Paris, France (Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg/Getty) Like an irresistible oceanic current, the financial crisis continues to swirl around the globe, its waves lately lapping...
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Child labour is not that hard
(Photo: John Atherton/Wikimedia) The recent Bloomberg story about child labour in Burkina Faso is difficult to get through. You read about the struggle of 13-year-old Clarisse Kambire working a cotton...
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Howard Grosfield, president and CEO, Amex Bank of Canada
Howard Grosfield joined American Express’ U.S. operations in 2004 as vice president in the New York-based Strategic Planning Group. Born and raised in Don Mills, Ont., Grosfield is now back home after...
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Digital distribution challenges titans of video game industry
(Photo: Amy Strycula/Getty) Like chain-retail record stores before it, video game retail’s days are numbered and its demise will come at the hands of the same killer: the Internet. Digital distribution...
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No Canadian digital retailers for billion dollar video game industry
(Photo: Gregor Schuster/Getty) “I can tell you this: there are more retailers interested in being in this [video game] space than not.” —Stephen Turvey, VP & GM of Sony Computer Entertainment...
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Chrome isn’t really the No. 1 browser
(Photo: courtesy Google) There’s an old joke in here about statistics, but I’m not going to be the one to resurrect it. What I will say is that what you see isn’t always what you get, and that seems to...
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Adobe changes business model to cloud-based subscription
(Photo: Maciej Frolow/Getty Images) Among the newest members to join “club cloud” is San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe Systems Inc. The company has officially moved its market leading graphic design and...
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The Barclays Libor scandal destroys trust
Barclays Bank CEO Bob Diamond. (Photo: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg/Getty Images) If it wasn’t clear in 2008 that something is fundamentally wrong with the operations of global finance, then surely it is...
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IXPs could lead way to cheaper Internet
(Photo: John Rensten/Getty) The Internet works in mysterious ways. Most people are unfamiliar with how the data they consume gets to their computers except to say it’s got something to do with bytes...
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Social impact bonds and Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs building in Manhattan (Photo: Youngking11/Wikimedia) There was a remarkable report out yesterday (August 2) concerning Goldman Sachs getting into the business of social impact bonds....
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As expected, Entertainment One has announced that it has acquired Alliance Films from affiliates of Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Investissement Québec. The all-cash deal is worth $225 million and...
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Kiip your eyes on this mobile startup
Brian Wong, co-founder and CEO, Kiip (Photo: courtesy Kiip) Not long after being laid off in June 2010 from his job at social news website Digg, Brian Wong was on a long-haul flight passing through...
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Random acts of debt forgiveness
If there was any criticism most routinely leveled at the Occupy movement during its Fall 2011 heyday it was that it was unfocused and proposed little or nothing in the way of solutions. This would...
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Carney makes a move to the U.K.
Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney (Photo: Sean Kilpatrick/CP) In a move that comes as a great surprise to just about everyone, Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has announced he will be stepping...
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Why is bourbon so crazy hot now?
(Photo: Sam R. Gates/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In September, I strolled into a Liquor Barn outlet in Lexington, Ky., looking for a bottle of bourbon. Faced with more than 100 different labels—many...
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