GuelphMercury - Equitrac in Waterloo, which makes software for sophisticated multi-function office printers and other printer products, is laying off approximately 20 people from its local workforce of about 100.
Vancouver Sun - The global footprint of Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerrys continues to grow, but is being overshadowed by the meteoric rise of its rivals in the smartphone industry.
The Globe and Mail - In recent weeks, I think the probability of Google acquiring Research In Motion has gone from almost 0 per cent to somewhere in the ballpark of 50 per cent, and I believe there are three dominant reasons why.
TheRecord - Actors have their green rooms. Soon, physicists at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics will have their red room.
InformationWeek - Eric Jackson, manager of Ironfire Capital, had some bold words Wednesday about Research In Motion. In short, he doesn't see the BlackBerry maker surviving past the first quarter of 2013 as an independent company.
Daily Exchange - The newly formed Waterloo chapter of Canadian Women in Technology is hosting a summer social next Tuesday, 5:30 to 7:30 PM August 9 at McCabe's Irish Bar and Grill in Kitchener, for everyone (men too!) to meet, network and learn more about the chapter.
570News - Maxime Bernier is in K-W for a couple of events today. He starts out at the Communitech Hub in Kitchener at 10:30, where he'll tour the high tech centre.
TheRecord - Forget their days of harassing whaling vessels and fishing trawlers, Greenpeace today follows slightly different tactics.
570News - 570 News has learned that a number of employees have been let go at Equitrac, a print management and software developer with offices on Phillip Street. The company's vice-president of Corporate Communications has confirmed the layoffs but would not provide a specific number of people affected, citing company policy.
eWeek.com - Research In Motion on Aug. 3 announced five new BlackBerry smartphones that the company says, are vast improvements over their predecessors.
BusinessInsider.com - Today, we start with Waterloo’s five-year-old Accelerator Centre. We recently spoke with Tim Jackson, COO of the AC, about the role that this kind of organization plays in the process of getting technology to market, what makes it tick, the culture required to support it and how it measures success.
The Globe and Mail - Research In Motion Ltd. is embarking on one of the most ambitious device launches in its history, as the struggling smartphone giant tries to halt a decline in market position and strike back against fast-moving rivals.
Daily Commercial News - The Kitchener, Ont. headquarters of Enermodal Engineering Ltd. has achieved LEED platinum.
CBC News - Shares in Waterloo, Ont.-based Research In Motion rose Wednesday after it unveiled five new BlackBerrys with touchscreens, responding to heavy competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones.
ITBusiness.ca - Waterloo Ont.-based Research in Motion Ltd. has released version 6 of its real-time messaging client, Blackberry Messenger (BBM).
570News - In the post-war era, Kitchener was a thriving industrial city, while Waterloo was just starting to grow.
CNW Group - BIOREM Inc. has recently obtained a series of three International orders totaling $2.5 Million in value.
TheRecord - The provincial government Tuesday announced $12.7 million in research funding for Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo.
Calgary Helard - Research In Motion has taken its lumps lately, losing ground in the markets, losing sales to competitors and now, losing 2,000 valuable employees in a companywide layoff.
MarketWatch - Texada Software Inc. Announces Significant Acquisitions and Private Placement.
CNW Group - OpenText™ today introduced a solution that works in concert with the SAP® Travel Management application to eliminate the need to move paper receipts around in order to process expense reports.
CNW Group - COM DEV International Ltd., a leading manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, today announced that it has received an Authorization to Proceed to provide equipment for two new commercial satellites.
ARN - It's the first tablet to be certified by the Australian Government
PRNewswire - Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar companies, today announced that it has signed a photovoltaic solar module sales agreement with Cirus Solar Systems Private Limited, a solar engineering, procurement and construction company based in Hyderabad, India.
USATODAY.com - The smartphone that's been a corporate status symbol for more than a decade faces a rapidly declining market share amid new competition, while the company has suffered a series of missteps in both strategy and execution.
Winnipeg Free Press - A Canadian tech company is under growing scrutiny for helping some of the world's more repressive regimes filter online content, prompting calls for Ottawa to establish a clear foreign policy for cyberspace.
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