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Showing all articles by author: Craig Daniels
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Waterloo 'the richest startup ecosystem I've ever seen': Salim Ismail
02 April 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News, Startups
Communitech News sat down with Salim Ismail to discuss the exponential change in the region over the last decade. Read more
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Duelling robots: Clearpath, Christie team up to develop 3D game
31 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News, Small to Mid Size
3D fighting robots. Clearpath Robotics has developed a fun new video game in collaboration with Christie. They have developed a game that is beamed onto the floor of the robotics company’s Kitchener warehouse,… Read more
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Canon challenge turns lens on societal problems
31 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured
In mid-January, Canon Canada launched the Through Your Lens competition to challenge Ontario post-secondary students to find problems and provide solutions that improve people’s lives, using existing Canon… Read more
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Shinydocs serves up an exciting solution to a boring problem
12 March 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Enterprise, Opinion, Startups, View from the ‘Loo
Shinydrive, overcomes a big, boring and expensive problem: the reluctance of office workers to store and share documents on company systems, and their risky reliance on local desktops and cloud solutions… Read more
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Canadian Tire leader takes inventory on the progress of women
05 March 2015 | By Trish Crompton in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Event recaps, Featured
The chair of Canadian Tire came to Kitchener on Wednesday and left an audience of more than 100 with something to ponder as International Women’s Day approaches. She also toured the Communitech Hub, where… Read more
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OpenText takes a stand on International Women’s Day
05 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Featured, News
Canada’s largest software company, Waterloo-based OpenText has gone beyond talk to become a tech sector leader in diversity, with women making up 30 percent of its workforce and occupying three of nine… Read more
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Beyond MTV: Microsoft opens space in Communitech Hub
12 February 2015 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Opinion, Startups, View from the ‘Loo
The newest arrival to the Communitech Hub is Microsoft, the world’s largest software company, which has set up a post in the partners’ concourse at the Hub. Microsoft has recognized the value of proximity… Read more
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New-tech cinema moves into old Kitchener theatre
28 January 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Opinion, Tech About Town
Matt MacKinnon and friends decided it was time to revitalize downtown cinemas, and decided to open Apollo Cinema right in the heart of Downtown Kitchener. Read more
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New products, new customers drive Sandvine forward
15 January 2015 | By Christian Aagaard in: Enterprise, Featured, News
Sandvine shared that they had an amazing year in terms of revenue and new customers. Read more
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Evolve your professional self with Strong Leaders
05 December 2014 | By Sam Trieu in: Announcements, Enterprise, Small to Mid Size
Communitech Strong Leaders is a program curated for mid-level managers in the tech ecosystem, and covers a variety of topics. Read more