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Hard-hit Ottawa small businesses to get federal funding, marketing support

Bank Street, Preston Street, Somerset Chinatown, Sparks Street and Vanier BIAs have been chosen to participate in program aimed at revitalizing mainstreet retailers.

Roxborough Bus Lines’ expansion drive continues with acquisition of Casselman company

Family-owned 417 Bus Line Ltd. has about 220 employees who maintain and operate a fleet of 230 vehicles that includes school buses and motor coaches.

Capital’s office vacancy rate drops to 8.6% in Q4

Downtown vacancy rate of 9.9 per cent last quarter was the third-lowest in North America behind Vancouver and Toronto, real estate firm CBRE says.

C-COM Satellite sees sales uplift

The company said the customers plan to use its cellular products for cellular backhaul, disaster management and oil and gas exploration projects.

Eagle Professional Resources sold to T.O.-based IT staffing firm

Founded in 1996, Eagle now has 100 employees in 10 offices across Canada.

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

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

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

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

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

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 capital.
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Ottawa’s tech ecosystem relies heavily on tight collaboration between academic institutions and industry leaders to drive innovation and maintain economic sovereignty. With annual research and development investments surpassing half a billion dollars, the University of Ottawa is working to support local innovation. This effort took a big step forward this summer with the launch of uOttawa’s new Centre for Applied AI within the Faculty of Engineering. Designed to bridge the gap between rapid AI advancement and real-world industrial adoption, the centre provides private and public sector partners with direct access to over 50 domain experts across robotics, cybersecurity, telecom, and smart materials. In this bonus episode of Techopia Live, OBJ publisher Michael Curran speaks with Dean Caroline Cao, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and professor Lionel Briand, director of the Centre for Applied AI. They discuss the centre's mission to boost local AI capabilities, modernize engineering talent pipelines, and help Ottawa firms safely embed artificial intelligence into their operations. Chapters: 00:00 Intro 02:19 Introducing Dean Cao and Lionel Briand 22:33 Sponsor Segment 23:17 Closing and what’s ahead at OBJ For more on Ottawa’s tech and innovation scene, visit https://obj.ca/techopia. Subscribe to Techopia’s weekly newsletter here: https://obj121.activehosted.com/f/5
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