Research in Motion makers of the ever popular Blackberry has announced that it has purchased QNX Software Systems from Harman international.
QNX which is based in Ottawa, Ontario was formed in 1980 and is a leading provider of embedded systems. QNX has a very strong real-time operating system (RTOS) and has especially been a strong player [...]
It appears that a new Best Buy big box store is slated to open in Fredericton. Is Fredericton gaining ground in the war to attract retailers?
Fredericton based software testing and quality assurance vendor PQA is growing its company by 300 people over the next few years. What do they do and why are they growing?
It appears that the effects of the recession are starting to show in the habits of computer buyers.
HP has missed its revenue targets by $3 billion (but hits profit targets).
Apple sales have gone from 50% year over year increases to – 6%
I guess after laying off a lot of staff, companies have a bunch of [...]
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. [...]
