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Shopify Acquires Select Start Studios
February 12, 2012
Ottawa, Ontario (PRWEB) February 1, 2012 — February 1, 2012— Shopify, the leading ecommerce platform used to create and power online stores, today announced that it acquired award-winning mobile company […]
Virtustream Completes Acquisition of Enomaly
February 9, 2012
Virtustream, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions,today announced thatit has completed its previously announced acquisition of Enomaly, Inc., an early innovatorin cloud and pioneerin cloud exchanges. Read the […]
Ceridian Announces Agreement to Acquire Dayforce
February 7, 2012
Minneapolis & Toronto, February 7, 2012 — Ceridian Corporation, a leading global provider of human resources, payroll, benefits, tax filing, recruiting, workforce management software and payment solutions, announced today it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Dayforce Corporation. […]
Innovation Policy and Innovation DNA…
November 4, 2011
Over the past year, the Canadian government has turned to Open Text’s Tom Jenkins and his committee to transform perennial hand-wringing into some plan of action for more effective research […]
Scraping and scrapping…
November 4, 2011
On the heels of some big data scraper and indexer acquisitions in Canada and elsewhere over the past year (think Radian6 and PostRank, among others), the British Columbia Supreme Court’s […]
How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farmville…
November 4, 2011
Nora Bayes couldn’t have trumpeted the triumph of social gaming any better. Shedding the “really? no, seriously?” doubters over the past five years, venture investors are turning over rocks around […]
Sterling Partners Acquires MOSAID Technologies for $590 Million
October 28, 2011
Sterling Partners, an industry-leading private equity firm with $5 billion in assets under management, announced that it has entered into an arrangement agreement with MOSAID Technologies under which Sterling Partners will acquire […]
B.C. Case Adds to the Rules of Robotics
October 19, 2011
The B.C. Supreme Court recently decided a case that will be of interest to various Internet-based businesses. In particular, the case will be relevant for companies that provide Internet search […]
LW sponsors GrowLab incubator in Vancouver
September 22, 2011
Exciting things are happening out in Vancouver for start-up companies. A group of well-known angels has paired up with three Canadian VC firms to form a new incubator known as […]
Wattpad Raises Series A Round of Financing
September 14, 2011
Congrats to Wattpad founders Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen on the completion of a their recent Series A round, with a terrific investment syndicate including New York’s Union Square Ventures […]
