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• BB10 sales underwhelm Rideau Centre stores
  And while some retailers were close to selling out their stock by mid-morning, others had yet to sell a single BlackBerry 10 device. “It’s been ...
• PharmaGap stock plunges as life sciences firm halts...
  The news resulted in a 50 per cent decrease in the value of its stock price by market close on Monday, dropping from $0.01 per share down to ...
• Shopify expands to accommodate 100 new hires
  The local e-commerce platform provider kept on hiring, and expanded into the former
• Iogen sells enzyme division for $67.5M
  Novozymes – which says it has a 47 per cent market share in the global enzyme industry – purchased Iogen’s industrial enzyme business, called ...
• Thermal Energy slips into the red; says better times...
  In its second quarter of fiscal 2013, Thermal Energy brought in $1.3 million in revenues, compared to $4.7 million for the same period the year ...
• Ottawa developers help RIM launch BB10
  He’s attending the BlackBerry 10 launch party in Toronto as a member of RIM’s elite strategic partner program and showing off the seven different ...
• Swedish ad company opens Ottawa office
  Admeta has moved into an office in the Constitution Square office complex at 340 Albert St. – its second North American expansion after ...
• Local lawyer faces misconduct allegation
  Stephane Asnot MonPremier, a barrister and solicitor at MonPremier Professional Corp. in Orleans, is accused of “failing to act as a competent ...
• From seed to sky
  Agrisoma Biosciences Inc., a local clean-tech company, has been perfecting that oilseed for 12 years, selling it to farmers out west and working ...
• UPDATE: Nordion explores ‘strategic...
  By market close on Monday, Nordion stock was valued at $6.90 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, a 7.3 per cent increase from the same time on Friday. ...
• Opening the gates to Golden Palace
  Take an inside look at Golden Palace and its famous egg rolls in this slideshow. In its 53 years, Golden Palace has become an Ottawa inst
• Province pledges $15M to Bayview Yards “innovation...
  The project received unanimous support from city council on Wednesday, contingent upon the provincial funding it had asked for. With the ...
• Ticket reseller startup tackles Texas competitor
  That’s why local startup Broker4Tickets is launching a platform to allow them to sell their unused tickets to other sports fans. The website, ...
• TheCodeFactory on the move to larger office
  The local incubator, which was founded in 2008, currently resides at 246 Queen St. but will relocate to 100 Gloucester St. by April 1, says ...
• Local VC fund closes first $10M round
  Mistral Venture Partners was announced in July 2012 with the goal of raising $35 million overall, which will be used to make $50,000 to $100,000 inv
• Nordion lowers damages claim by 85%
  Local medical isotope provider Nordion filed an amended statement of claim on Monday requesting damages in the amount of $243.5 million from ...
• Local IT firms struggle to adjust to Shared...
  There was a large drop in contract opportunities from SSC this fiscal year, according to Larry Poirier, president of TUC Managed IT Solutions and ...
• Local EI recipients decrease “significantly” in...
  In Ottawa, 5,530 workers received benefits, compared to 5,820 in November 2011. That’s a “notable decline,” says Statistics Canada analyst ...
• Mosaid expands under Sterling Partners ownership
  “My first answer was, I’m a patent licensing company, I would love to have the former head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on my board, ...
• Local lawyer accused of misconduct
  Kenneth Wayne Johnson, a barrister and solicitor at Kenneth Johnson Law Office on St. Laurent Boulevard, is accused of acting on behalf of a ...
• Small ISPs need more bandwidth: Ottawa firm
  The Canadian Association of Wireless Internet Service Providers, or CANWISP, was formed Monday when 20 Canadian ISPs came together to discuss how ...
• ‘Mr. Fix-It’ shares stories from Mitel
  A friend, lawyer Albert Gnat, convinced him to take the trip, promising to fill him in on the way. Before the plane had landed, Mr. Griffiths – ...
• Pivoting for a dime
  “We saw a very strong and compelling use case and white space in the market for inbound messaging from the consumer to the business,” says Ronald ...
• Talentlab buys Toronto staffing firm
  Talentlab specializes in talent acquisition for high-tech senior executives and had been looking to find ways to access the Toronto market. The ...
• Agrisoma helps power first biofuel flight
  Agrisoma Biosciences’ oilseed crop was used for the flight that was part of a program funded by the National Research Council of Canada. That ...
• Local companies make a splash at CES
  Bob Huggins, an entrepreneur-in-residence at local economic development agency Invest Ottawa, flew down to Las Vegas, Nev. to check out the ...
• DragonWave posts $13.9M loss
  The local telecommunications equipment firm, which reports in U.S. dollars, recorded $38.5 million in revenues. That’s a 226-per-cent increase ...
• Duocom acquired by AV giant
  Montreal-based Duocom Canada Inc., which has an office in Ottawa, was acquired by AVI-SPL, an international communications company with 4
• BTI closes $8.5M funding round
  BTI Systems received the funding from Boston-based Bain Capital Ventures, which has previously invested in the company. The funding is good news ...
• RIM reaping
  Local employees have been working six and a half days a week in preparation for the release of the BlackBerry 10 mobile platform on Jan. 30. But ...