Showing all articles by author: Chuck Howitt
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Miovision raises another CDN$36M
23 October 2023 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
The Kitchener-based maker of traffic-management technology has closed a tranche of CDN$36 million, adding to a CDN$260-million raise announced earlier this year. Read more
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D2L for Business
26 September 2023 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
Kitchener-based learning company D2L pursues corporate-training market. Read more
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Financing international students' passages to education
27 June 2023 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, Featured news, News
Martin Basiri announced at the Collision tech conference that he is launching a new company called Passage that will help international students obtain financing to attend universities and colleges in… Read more
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Honouring tech leadership
01 June 2023 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
Serial tech entrepreneur Joseph Fung, along with the founders of Sandvine, have been inducted into the Waterloo Region Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Read more
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BlackBerry – the movie
12 May 2023 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
Tech News asked journalist Chuck Howitt, author of the book BlackBerry Town, to help us sift fact from fiction in the new movie BlackBerry. Read more
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Kik marks 10 years at tech's bleeding edge
12 July 2019 | By Chuck Howitt in: Featured, News
In the early days of Kik, the mobile messaging app started by Livingston and a group of engineering students at the University of Waterloo in 2009. Kik had a 10th anniversary celebration held Thursday… Read more
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Fire-plagued BC breathes easier thanks to Waterloo Region startup
10 August 2017 | By Chuck Howitt in: Ecosystem, Featured, News, Startups
O2 Canada, co-founded by RIch Szasz and Peter Whitby distributes masks to help combat the wildfires that erupted in the B.C. interior. Read more
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Ray Kurzweil looks boldly into the future at 2016 Tech Leadership Conference
12 May 2016 | By Chuck Howitt in: Event recaps, Featured, News
At the Tech Leadership Conference, Ray Kurzweil spoke boldly about the future to over 800 attendees. Read more
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Behind the curtain: Techtoberfest VC one-on-ones
17 October 2014 | By Chuck Howitt in:
Rob Darling the founder and CEO of WellRead, a startup that helps businesses find the right expertise through platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter, is gearing up to meet with four or five venture capital… Read more
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Improved GO train service edges closer as province buys track
24 September 2014 | By Chuck Howitt in: Ecosystem, Featured, News
Ontario has purchased a 53-km section of CN’s rail line between Kitchener and Georgetown as it moves ahead with a plan to improve train service to and from Toronto.GO Transit can plan for even more service… Read more