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Flexibility is key as grown-up startups seek space to scale
29 October 2013 | By Trish Crompton in: Featured, Startups
A block away from the Communitech Hub, where more than 100 startups are working to gain traction, stands the former Canada Trust building, towering over King Street in downtown Kitchener. It has quickly… Read more
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Ice thickness presents hot opportunity for DATA.BASE project
28 October 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured, Small to Mid Size
Sea ice forecasting is a red-hot business opportunity, given the increasing number of ships carrying oil, gas, minerals and other cargo through Arctic waters. A global observation network currently helps… Read more
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Waterloo Region well-represented at EY awards
25 October 2013 | By Communitech in: Featured
Waterloo Region leaders made an impressive showing at the Ontario EY (Ernst & Young) Entrepreneur of the Year Awards this week. Read more
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TribeHR acquisition could expand NetSuite's market by $10B: analyst
24 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, Startups
NetSuite, a leading developer of cloud-based enterprise resource management software, agreed to acquire TribeHR for an undisclosed sum. The purchase of the four-year-old software-as-a-service company led… Read more
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TribeHR to be acquired by NetSuite
22 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured
California-based NetSuite will acquire TribeHR, a fast-growing Waterloo Region provider of cloud-based human resources management software. The deal will bring TribeHR under the umbrella of one of the… Read more
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View from the 'Loo: It's that time of year again
17 October 2013 | By Anthony Reinhart in: Featured, View from the ‘Loo
The Waterloo Region tech community has much to celebrate since we launched Techtoberfest a year ago. Since it’s a startup festival, it’s as much about the work as it is the partying, as the list of keynotes… Read more
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Techtoberfest: the recap
17 October 2013 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Featured
To see what you missed at Techtoberfest, check out our live blog recaps of each speaker. We’ve blended our own notes with some of our favourite tweets and pictures from our audience. Read more
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Participation: Essential fuel for new-age cities
15 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Smart cities need people like Anna Beard. She blogged a civil, measured critique of Day 1, noting that for all that was said about their importance, millennials (the under-34 cohort) seemed under-represented… Read more
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New appathon aims to unlock value of government data
11 October 2013 | By Communitech in: Featured
The Canadian government will hold an appathon for developers to capitalize on vast amounts of information stored in government databases. The intention is to mirror the success of other nation's appathons,… Read more
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Weather challenges could be opportunities for smart cities
10 October 2013 | By Christian Aagaard in: Featured
Flood-control and power-grid investments are expensive, but Hoornweg, who is also Ontario’s chief safety and risk officer, said Toronto and its neighbours in the Greater Golden Horseshoe already have measures… Read more