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View from the 'Loo: Crazy, but a good crazy
12 September 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the 'Loo
Anthony Reinhart talks about the break he took from Communitech when his twin daughters were born. He discusses how fast things have developed at Communitech and in the Waterloo Region. The region is in… Read more
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'What's happening here is world-class': Tony Clement on Waterloo Region tech
05 September 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
Federal cabinet minister Tony Clement was impressed by his visit to Communitech, stating that Waterloo's tech ecosystem was world-class. Read more
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View from the 'Loo: City-building conference set for Oct. 9-10
30 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
The Waterloo Region is a tech hub and while you can start a tech business from anywhere, it helps to be around others that have done it. The area has had massive growth in the tech industry over the past… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Canada's new confidence
16 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
It’s been an interesting week in Toronto, centre of the country’s media universe, where the annual Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) hosted its annual Canada 3.0 event. Speaker after speaker exuded… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: A big year for BigRoad, Thalmic Labs
09 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
BigRoad, based in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre, is a software-as-a-service business aimed at a tough-to-crack, old-school and decidedly unsexy industry. Kitchener-based Thalmic’s futuristic MYO is a hardware… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: It's about the soil, not the building
02 May 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: View from the ‘Loo
Cora Developments next big project to break ground in Waterloo’s David Johnston Research + Technology Park: the International Business Centre, a 110,000-square-foot facility for startups and companies… Read more
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Demo Day 2: Bigger, bolder, better
26 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups
Professionalism, polish, pizzazz – all were on full display as 10 Communitech HYPERDRIVE startups and two special guest entrepreneurs pitched to a packed house at Demo Day on Thursday. A standing-room-only… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: The tech leadership of Thorsten Heins
25 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in:
BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins talks to us after his keynote speech at Communitech’s recent Tech Leadership Conference. Heins is well-positioned to talk about tech leadership, given the situation he confronted… Read more
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BBX to power RIM's next-generation devices
19 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in:
Research In Motion has opened the hood and revealed the engine of its next wave of devices, and it’s called BBX. RIM’s BlackBerry and QNX mobile platforms, will power future versions of the company’s BlackBerry… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: Networks matter more than hierarchies
18 April 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Startups, View from the ‘Loo
In a world that seems ever more awake to the power of networks, why are we still hypnotized by hierarchies? Seth Godin, who spoke at Communitech Tech Leadership Conference last month, talks about networks… Read more