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• UPDATE: Nordion narrows Q1 loss
  “The review is still in its early stages,” CEO Steve West said in a conference call on Wednesday morning. “We believe it’s an important step in ...
• Building a startup ‘dream team’
  The site allowed organizations to solicit feedback and garner funding from online users. The idea was good, says Scott Annan, CEO of local ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: Secure City Solutions -...
  That technology is developed by Ottawa-based Secure City Solutions, a new company spun off from a military communications software firm called ...
• DragonWave shares tumble following revenue guidance...
  The Ottawa-based telecom equipment firm now projects revenues will be approximately $30 million – a 25 per cent decrease from the low end of the ...
• Enablence scraps Chinese joint venture as financial...
  In a management discussion and analysis document filed Thursday on SEDAR – the electronic dissemination service for publicly traded Canadian ...
• UPDATE: Mitel completes sale of business unit, posts...
  Effective immediately, all 40 employees of the division have been transferred to EarthBend in Sioux Falls, S.D., according to the company. ...
• Chide.it doubles revenues, head count in 2012
  Last year, the company grew its revenues by 250 per cent and more than doubled its staff – all without a single dollar of external investment. ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: Health Wave - Health care...
  Its platform began as NDstorefront, a dispensary for naturopathic doctors to provide natural health products to their patients, but it has since ...
• Optelian’s local head count continues to grow
  The co-founders – CEO and president respectively – looked back as they prepared to celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary one year late. Over ...
• STARTUPS TO WATCH: Gnowit eases data overload
  It was two hours before the news broke on Middle Eastern media outlet Al-Jazeera and subsequently picked up by the rest of the world. That’s when ...
• Navigating through the crowd
  Crowdfunding involves gathering small monetary contributions from everyday people for a perk – such as pre-sales, as Teknision did for its ...
• Housing provider sues ZW Group, Ottawa contractors...
  Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corp., a non-profit housing organization, owns the Beaver Barracks development project at
• GaN Systems expands to U.K.
  The new facility in Reading, England will house four employees and should be open for business on April 1 after renovations are completed, said ...
• BTI raises $10M to launch platform with Ottawa-built...
  In January, BTI disclosed to OBJ that it had quietly raised $8.5 million for an upcoming initi
• Order backlog brightens Telesat outlook
  The local satellite communications company’s net income for the year dropped to $27 million, down from $237 million during the same period in ...
• Dealing with data
  BLACKIRON is a new division of Primus Canada, which is expanding its push into data centres and rebranding that segment to avoid confusion with ...
• Local bootstrapped companies honoured
  The ceremony honours self-capitalized startups aged seven years or less that have received no more than $650,000 in external funding. “It’s this ...
• How to slay a dragon
  The president and CEO of Mistura Beauty had just walked down steep, corrugated steel stairs onto the set, holding multiple props to pitch her ...
• Supplying stealth
  Justin Shimoon, CEO of AffinityClick Inc. and a past OBJ Forty Under 40 recipient, has faced this problem in the past, and it’s where the idea ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS - prairieFyre makes a game...
  First introduced about eight months ago, the games table was part of the company’s cultural shift to make its office a great place to work.“We ...
• Global IQX signs new lease one year after office fire
  The employee benefit software provider recently signed a lease at 1 Antares Dr. after spending months waiting for the Woodward Avenue office to ...
• We-Vibe manufacturer continues double-digit growth...
  The local technology company, which produces a line of vibrators for couples and individuals, says it is on track to continue growing its ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS: Grade A - Realizing the...
  “I’ve been in other organizations where you try that and you’re good for the first couple of months but that’s it,” says Christine Shute, ...
• Boomerang Kids in ‘aggressive expansion mode’
  The children’s resale chain plans to open a fifth Ottawa location in the Barrhaven Town Centre this summer, and has franchised four locations in ...
• More questions surface over bridge work
  Sources say work on the Strandherd-Armstrong Bridge, which will connect the communities of Barrhaven and Riverside South, ground to a halt late ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS: Chipworks - Opening the...
  “It’s meant to put into action the statement, ‘My door is always open to you,’” says president Julia Elvidge. “People get to know what’s going ...
• EMPLOYEES' CHOICE AWARDS: Titus - Don’t stop...
  A raucous weekend karaoke night? Nope, that’s how Titus’s senior management team ended its annual general meeting last November – with an event ...
• Epocal acquired for $166M
  Epocal Corp., a provider of technologies that support blood gas and electrolyte testing, was purchased by Massachusetts-based Alere Inc. for $166 ...
• F-35 makers go on offensive
  After a year of bad press following the federal government’s botched estimate of how much it would cost to procure 65 of the stealth planes, ...
• Lockheed Martin establishes Canadian HQ in Ottawa
  The new office is within the TD tower in the World Exchange Plaza on O’Connor Street and will hold two to three employees responsible for ...