David Sali

Dave is OBJ’s senior writer and editor with two decades of experience in the newspaper industry working for a variety of publications from community weeklies to major dailies. He is a four-time award-winning journalist by the Alliance of Area Business Publishers (AABP). He has received awards for best news feature, best scoop and best overall writer among medium-sized business publications.

Tech takeovers leave mixed legacies

Techopia

Ian Curry is a happy man, and with good reason. The CEO of Ottawa life-sciences firm DNA Genotek is in charge of a company that

Builders eye office projects outside core

Non-Residential

A pair of planned new office buildings at Tunney’s Pasture and the Ottawa Train Yards could be a signal that developers believe the federal government

Ottawa a city of gamers, conference spokesman says

Techopia

Most people still think of Ottawa as a city of civil servants. Kyle McInnes has a different view, one that might be surprising. “The way

Shopify gets read on growing bricks-and-mortar market

Techopia

Shopify’s foray into bricks-and-mortar business is still in its early stages, but it’s building into something big, the company says. Last summer, the Ottawa-based e-commerce

Security firms eye profits in push to privatize police services

Defence and Security

When it comes to skyrocketing policing costs, Eli El-Chantiry points his finger squarely at fingerprinting. “Does that need a police officer to do it?” says

Ottawa’s digital movers shepherd in new world of online transfers

Techopia

Listen up, all you Sens fans: the next time you’re admiring a replay of an Erik Karlsson end-to-end rush on the big screen at the

Nortel’s failure was years in the making, Telfer study finds

Techopia

Management blunders, market changes and a “black cloud” of eroding customer confidence were just some of the factors that ultimately led to Nortel’s epic collapse,

Ottawa mobile app firm brings technology to local taxis

Techopia

Ottawa’s main taxi dispatcher is about to give the green light to technology that will let local residents book and pay for cabs on their

Local VC fund Mistral plays key role in $1.7M financing round for software firm

Techopia

Ottawa’s Mistral Venture Partners fund gets its name from a fierce northerly wind. The man who launched the investment fund probably feels like he has

Uptick in 2013 fuels optimism for new year of investments

Techopia

Shopify’s recent success in securing $100 million in venture capital should help Ottawa step out of the shadows of more-hyped technology centres such as Waterloo