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Wine app pours its way to top of app store
22 August 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, News, Startups
Wine reviews & ratings has a built-in barcode scanner that pulls up ratings, reviews, recipes and food pairings. Its integration with the LCBO and SAQ (Quebec’s liquor retailer) gives users accurate inventory… Read more
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D2L ‘just getting warmed up’ with $85M Series B round: Baker
15 August 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Kitchener-based Desire2Learn has closed an $85-million Series B investment round as its global footprint in educational technology following the $80-million Series A round it closed in 2012. Read more
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New library blows away dusty stereotypes
14 July 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Ecosystem, Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Library stereotypes have gone the way of the dinosaur. Our library and many others are now big, bright spaces that invite interaction. They showcase art, encourage makers and offer resources as likely… Read more
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BlackBerry and Beyond: Tech Jobs Connex is a team with depth
27 June 2014 | By Mirko Petricevic in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, News, Startups
The $1.2-million program, designed to keep former BlackBerry workers employed in Ontario, is funded by the province and run by Communitech. Tech Jobs Connex launched as a short-term series of events in… Read more
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BlackBerry and Beyond: Husband-and-wife team swift to launch two startups
26 June 2014 | By Mirko Petricevic in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, News, Startups
After leaving Blackberry, Middleton launched Swift Mobile Solutions to develop web-based software and wearable technology for the health and fitness industries. And started a company that provides services… Read more
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BlackBerry and Beyond: Wireless Group all-stars stick together in search of new opportunities
25 June 2014 | By Mirko Petricevic in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, News, Startups
10 senior leaders of BlackBerry Wireless Group approached Communitech’s Tech Jobs Connex program and started a new adventure with the Waterloo Wireless Group Read more
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On learning and the long game
20 June 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Asking bigger questions and learning about philosophy and all the possibilities of the universe is essential to our learning even though it may not seem practical in our day-to-day lives. It helps us to… Read more
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M-Theory: The three points of the team-building triangle (Part 1)
27 May 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
When thinking of teams, teamwork, and how you get the people part of building companies right, there are many key processes and tools to our culture and values. Learning about the three points of the team-building… Read more
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As data trails grow longer, ignorance is bliss
09 April 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Jad Saliba with his team at Magnet Forensics, is trying to figure out how to better filter with the tools, digitally helping people with the sense of navigation and memory Read more
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M-Theory: Who needs humanity? There's an app for that . . .
20 March 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
Communicating so much via WhatsApp and Instagram has stripped us of our basic humanity, made us slaves to Poe’s Law. Our Paleolithic brains can’t evolve fast enough to properly understand this tech-saturated… Read more