News
January 23, 2014
Starting Simple; Going Big in Australia: The DLI.tools Soft-Landing Story
With a business mantra like start simple; go big the CDMN Soft-Landing Program couldn’t have been a better fit for DLI.tools Incorporated. The company planned to take its cloud-based, click enabled, and secure ECM framework, DOCOVA, to Australia, starting with a department of the Government of Victoria.
January 22, 2014
New IT Trade Mission to New York City. Deadline to apply: Jan 29.
The program will include workshops, a pitch clinic on February 11 and a pitch dinner on February 12 where companies will have the opportunity to do a 90-second pitch to leading decision makers in the media space in NYC and then network with them at a private dinner.
January 22, 2014
Innovation Factory Success Story: U.S. patent has Weever Apps thinking bigger
It’s 22 pages long, 11,200 words, more than three years in the making and, for Hamilton’s Weever Apps, a newly achieved US patent is just the beginning of its plans for expansion. The startup learned Christmas Eve that it has been granted a US patent for its technology that converts web pages into mobile apps
January 21, 2014
Governments, OpenText give major boost to Canadian venture capital
A little more than 20 years ago, venture capitalists made a $1.6-million bet on a small Waterloo startup called OpenText. Without it, the company would likely not be what it is today: Canada’s largest software company; a global leader in helping businesses manage their information
January 21, 2014
Accelerate Okanagan Success Story: Mathtoons Media Receives Mitacs Funding for App Authoring Software
Educational Technology company Mathtoons Media has received funding to develop web-accessed software which allows teachers to create their own mobile practice apps for upper level math and science subjects.
January 20, 2014
ICTC releases report exploring the impact of mobile apps
The Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) released its report, Mobile Apps: Generating Economic Gains for Creative Media Industries in Ontario, exploring the impact of mobile apps on Ontario’s creative media industries.