Techopia

Techopia is focused on Ottawa’s technology sector. This multimedia project includes regular online news coverage, a video and audio podcast, private networking events and quarterly reports. OBJ also partners with EY to create an annual magazine called Techopia-EY Insights.

QNX founder and CEO Dan Dodge to step down from BlackBerry

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The head of BlackBerry subsidiary QNX is retiring from the company he helped found by the end of this year. Dan Dodge created the first

Feature: Out of the founder’s shadow

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What happens when a visionary leader moves on? EDITOR’S NOTE: In July, Halogen Software CEO Paul Loucks took many by surprise when he announced his resignation.

Feature: Ottawa struggles to find any success in B2C tech

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The Silicon Valley landscape is dotted with tech giants with a strong mass-consumer connection. From Facebook and Google to Apple and Netflix, multibillion-dollar companies flock

Feature: Help wanted: Women in tech

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For all of the hype lately around Ottawa’s burgeoning tech scene, it’s easy to gloss over its shortcomings. Namely, this: for every woman you see

ProntoForms raises $3 million through private placement financing

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Ottawa-based ProntoForms announced this week it had raised $3 million through private placement financing from a series of underwriters as well as certain “insiders of

Carleton Opens Mass Spectrometry Centre

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By Dan Rubinstein Cracking open a cold beer is a Canada Day tradition, but when the Carleton Mass Spectrometry Centre (CMSC) launched a collaboration with

Feature: Silicon Valley startup accelerator dared Ottawa’s Gymtrack to dream big

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Lee Silverstone was at the Montreal International Startup Festival last year when a chance meeting changed the trajectory of his business. Silverstone, the co-founder and

DragonWave’s shares get Nasdaq transfer, risk of February delisting

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Ottawa-based DragonWave announced Wednesday its common shares have been transferred from Nasdaq’s global market to its capital market effective Aug. 28. The packet microwave radio

Cutting through the ‘future fog’ of innovation economy

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By Barry Gander Many nations have achieved a surge in GDP because of their mastery of the innovation economy. We are all familiar with the

Feature: Can Ottawa build a consumer app with mass appeal?

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By Stephen Karmazyn Social media is big business. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pinterest, WhatsApp – all are members of the billion-dollar valuation club. So where does