OBJ staff

Amid gloomy signs, region’s unemployment rate plunges to 20-year low in December

Ottawa

Continuing a troubling recent trend, the overall number of employed residents in Ottawa-Gatineau fell to 753,300 last month, a slight drop from November.

Record year for Ottawa home sales as $13 billion in sales posted

Real Estate

Members of the Ottawa Real Estate Board sold 862 residential properties in December, compared with 997 in December 2020, a decrease of 14 per cent.

Techopia Live: ‘No skeletons in the closet’: ProntoForms CEO riffs on running a publicly traded micro-cap

Techopia

Over the past two decades, Alvaro Pombo has quietly built ProntoForms into one of the Ottawa tech scene’s steadiest performers.

OBJ’s top stories of 2021

Ottawa

From a Quickie sale to a billionaire e-commerce baron, we’ve got the biggest business topics of the year covered.

Techopia Live: VC bonanza sets high expectations for Rewind

Techopia

Fast-growing firm that makes cloud backup and recovery software for Shopify merchants and others had a monster year, landing more than $100 million in venture

Techopia Live: Determining the Trustworthiness of AI Technology

Techopia

Techopia Live host Sherry Aske spoke with NuEnergy AI CEO Niraj Bhargava, whose startup aims to help organizations measure and manage trust in their AI

Techopia Live: MindBridge AI founder reflects on past and looks forward to ‘breakaway’ 2022

Techopia

Solon Angel tells OBJ’s Michael Curran Ottawa-based fraud-detection software firm is poised to become a global force in the year ahead.

Techopia Live: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

Techopia

In the latest episode of Techopia Live, we peer into Assent Compliance CEO Andrew Waitman’s crystal ball to predict what 2022 might bring for the

Behind the Headlines: Commissionaires Ottawa acquisition creates a local security powerhouse

Ottawa, Ottawa Business Journal Podcast

News broke this week of a major acquisition in the Ottawa business scene when the Commissionaires Ottawa Group acquired another security-related company: ADGA Group. In

Arnprior’s Nu-Tech Precision Metals acquired by Fortune 500 firm

Eastern Ontario Business Journal

Local manufacturer specializes in precision metal products such as seamless pipes, tubes and rods for customers in the nuclear, aerospace and defence sectors.