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From Rogers to Ryerson: Nadir Mohamed on how Toronto and Waterloo are taking on the world
14 June 2014 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Featured, Startups
Former CEO of Rogers Communications, Nadir Mohamed discusses entrepreneurship and the growing relationship between Waterloo Region and Toronto's tech communities. Read more
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Eindhoven 2.0: Lessons for Waterloo Region in Dutch centre’s tech makeover
12 June 2014 | By Christian Aagaard in: Ecosystem, Featured
Mayor of Eindhoven Netherlands Rob van Gijzel toured the Communitech Hub recently and is inspired to try and create the same type of ecosystem in his home city. Read more
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The new normal: Be amazing, speakers tell STEM-minded girls
29 May 2014 | By Christian Aagaard in: Ecosystem, Featured
Jennifer Smith, executive vice-president of global market solutions at Christie Digital, encourages young women to hold on to their interests in the so-called STEM cluster: science, technology, engineering… Read more
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Workshop brings developers up to speed with Famo.us
28 May 2014 | By Rob Drimmie in: Ecosystem
Led by Connor Turland, lead developer at metamaps.cc, the May 22 “Get to Know Famo.us” session introduced the framework, which claims to fame is that it enables native-like, 60fps rendering for browser-based… 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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One on one with Techstars’ David Cohen [VIDEO]
01 May 2014 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Featured, Videos
Techstars co-founder and CEO David Cohen visited Waterloo Region and Toronto to explore the potential of expanding into Canada, and share his impressions of the Waterloo Region startup community. 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
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M-Theory: Flukes, freemium and Flappy Bird: the economics of mobile app development with Christina Moulton
21 February 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
The app development industry is still young. Many people don't know what they are doing, and apps are very expensive to make. This had led to the creation of a lot of free and cheap apps to see what sticks. Read more
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M-Theory: Welcome to the businesszone
14 February 2014 | By Melanie Baker in: Featured, M-Theory, Opinion
People tend to know what they want. Consumers don't need to add a business' community manager to their long list of best friends. That is where the businesszone comes in. Read more