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About gagglescape
This site is a forum for Canada's entrepreneurs and venture investors. While we have an information technology bias, gagglescape is a place to find or exchange information on all innovation-driven markets.
Why gagglescape? Social networking technologies improve the way people connect with each other to exchange information. Whether described as "Smart Mobs" by Howard Rheingold or part of the Web 2.0 by Silicon Valley, social networks are a powerful way to exchange information. The gagglescape site uses social networking tools to help promote entrepreneurship and investment in Canadian knowledge based industries. Members and contributors to gagglescape enjoy the benefit of keeping up with the latest news and information in the Canadian entrepreneurial market. Think of gagglescape as your personal knowledge management system for tracking new market opportunities.
About gagglescape's Editor
Robert Ouellette, the editor of gagglescape, owes the genesis of this project to a number of influences: First, to the University of Toronto where theory, design, and technology come together to foster innovation; Second, to the Ivey School of Business MBA program where the staff and students' dedication and drive are inspirational; Third, to thinkthinkthink inc. and entrepreneur Brian Boigon for their integration of market-driving cultural trends with technology.
Trained as an architect, Ouellette - a columnist for the National Post - holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, and is the past Director of the Information Technology Design Centre at the University of Toronto. With international business experience as a senior analyst at the Boeing / de Havilland Aircraft Company, on the local level he is also the recipient of a City of Toronto Urban Design Award for his study on how technologies influence the design of cities. With thinkthinkthink inc. he directed the Lost Change web project for Motorola, Sony, and Levi's launching the then unknown Black Eyed Peas. His industrial design for the Volker-Craig 400 series terminals contributed to one of the K-W region's first high-tech success stories. He now leads Forum Bureau and builds social networking software and properties. |
Local News
Speedware, a division of Activant Solutions Inc. announced that it has signed two new HP e3000 migration contracts worth over $7 million.
OncoGenex Technologies Inc. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a preliminary prospectus with the Canadian provincial securities regulatory authorities for a proposed initial public offering of its common shares. The inability to attract and retain talent as well as other human resources issues continue to be the biggest threats to corporate profitability in Canada, according to results of a survey released today by Accenture. EnviroTower, announced it has secured $8.5 million in its latest round of financing to further accelerate North American market expansion of its unique, patented technology. The round was co-led by NGEN Partners of Santa Barbara, California a leading venture capital company in the U.S. Cleantech investment sector, and by initial investor, XPV Capital, one of Canada's foremost Cleantech investors. A group of Winnipeg private investors is pitching a tax-credit idea to the Manitoba government to try to attract more investment in the province's VC sector. Ottawa's Embotics receives new venture funding from Tera Capital Corporation. Psiphon, released on Friday, is a software program that gets around Internet censorship. Law firms Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP and London, UK-based Stringer Saul LLP announced that they will merge to create the first full-service integrated Canadian-UK law firm. Little Geeks, a not-for-profit computer donation initiative, announced that it is ready to collect, refurbish and distribute used computers to underprivileged children in the Greater Toronto Area. A donation program like no other, Little Geeks allows donors (or "Donor Geeks") to directly impact their own community, by providing free computing technology and educational tools to children in their own neighborhoods. Nortel's(*) common shares, listed on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") and the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX"), will begin trading on a consolidated basis when the NYSE and TSX opens Friday, Dec. 1/06.
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