Silicon Alley Insider has a interesting post entitled “Does New York City Need More VCs?.” In it they compared the venture capital situation in New York and in Silicon Valley. New York appears to have much fewer and less visible VC investors in the technology markets. In addition the article laments that the venture capital [...]
Two Fredericton IT firms have recently merged to create a powerful Atlantic Canadian provider of information technology and management services. Accreon which has 65 employees is acquiring ISOMNI and its 25 employees for an undisclosed sum. With this acquisition, Accreon becomes of the largest independent IT services companies in Atlantic Canada.
Accreon, itself created out of [...]
Last week Statistics Canada released its Labour Force Survey for the month of November. As I have done in previous months, I will look at some of the numbers and try to spot some trends especially when it comes to the province of New Brunswick and the Fredericton region in particular.
The headline numbers in this [...]
meshEAST is a new blog about Atlantic Canadian startup companies in the IT and the interactive media sector by Lisa Rousseau.
It really is great to hear stories of local companies and their ups and downs. It is much more relevant reading than TechCrunch and all of the other Silicon Valley/US centric IT media sites. [...]
On Monday, IBM announced the acquisition of Cognos for $4.9 billion dollars. Although it is great news for Cognos shareholders, I can’t help but think that the result is one less independent Canadian technology company.
With the recent acquisitions of ATI by AMD, Sierra Systems by Golden Gate Capital and DataMirror by IBM, the list of [...]
Last Friday, Statistics Canada released their latest Labour Force Information update. The headline results appear quite rosy.
Nationally, 63000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to a 33 year low of 5.8%. One highlighted detail is that most of the employment gains were in the health care and social assistance fields - [...]
The Verdict
For a bit of history of this case see my previous posts on the subject.
Last Friday, Justice Peter Glennie delivered his verdict on the injunction request by Brunswick News against its former Woodstock Bugle-Observer publisher William Kenneth Langdon and the Carleton Free Press.
The most controversial portion of the requested injunction which asked for a [...]
This is the third part of the Irving owned Brunswick News versus the upstart Carleton Free Press headed by William Kenneth Langdon. Part 1 and Part 2 are available as background on the soap opera / court case.
At the continuation of the injunction hearing against Ken Langdon, Brunswick News has decided to scale back its [...]
After waxing about Canadian apple juice not really being Canadian, I was quite pleased to see CBC’s Marketplace tonight discussing the same issue on a larger scale. The program examined some food products which are labeled as “Product of Canada” and attempts to trace where the main ingredients actually come from. The [...]
My previous post on the case of Irving / Brunwick News vs. the former Bugle-Observer publisher WilliamKenneth Langdon stated that the case would be brought to court on October 19th.
According to the CBC, at the course case the judge ruled that affidavits entered into evidence by Mr. Langdon were inadmissible the case. Brunswick News [...]
