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Antonio Zappulla on how tech is making a difference
06 June 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Antonio Zappulla is the CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, an internationally-minded organization that seeks ways to harness technology to solve human problems and improve lives the world over. Zappulla… Read more
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Conestoga College to open campus in Kitchener core
31 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
With increased demand, Conestoga College decided to open a new downtown Kitchener campus at the former Market Square mall, at the corner of King and Frederick streets. The college announced that it has… Read more
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From Waterloo to Rideau Hall: Q & A with Jad Saliba
29 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Jad Saliba was presented with a Governor General’s Innovation Award in Ottawa. Saliba took a few minutes last week to answer some questions from Communitech News in the wake of learning, on May 13, that… Read more
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ApplyBoard closes CDN$55 million Series B
27 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
ApplyBoard has had a busy few weeks, and now to top it off they announced new funding. ApplyBoard, the one-stop startup for international students seeking admission to schools across North America, announced… Read more
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Global push has dividends for Toronto-Waterloo
23 May 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Startup Genome, a Silicon Valley-based startup that advises governments and innovation agencies on how to boost startup success and ecosystem performance, released its 2019 Global Startup Ecosystem Report.… Read more
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Smart Waterloo Region team vows to forge ahead
14 May 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
To the members of the youth panel advising the Waterloo Region Smart Cities Challenge team, it doesn’t matter that their entry didn’t win the $50-million. Waterloo Region was the smallest of the communities… Read more
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Women-in-tech group gets boost from a Nobel winner
25 April 2019 | By Kelly Pedro in: Featured, News
Women in Communications and Technology (WCT) launched its Waterloo Region chapter at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Wednesday with a talk entitled “Curiosity Drives Innovation,” delivered… Read more
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New office, new growth for ApplyBoard
18 April 2019 | By Bill Bean in: Featured, News
ApplyBoard held the official opening of its new Kitchener office space. They are a one-stop website for international students seeking admission to any of 1,000 schools in North America. Read more
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Trudeau unveils $52.4 million in new scale-up funding
16 April 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid a visit to Communitech and came bearing federal funding – funding designed to help Canadian tech companies scale. Trudeau unveiled $52.4 million of new money to be administered… Read more
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Equipping employees for the jobs of tomorrow
15 April 2019 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, Future of Work, News
Ontario Minister of Labour Laurie Scott told Communitech News that governments, and particularly her government, must quickly respond to the shifts now underway, and doing so is in part why she was in… Read more