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• Can fat kids equal big business?
  Obese, even, in some cases, thanks to what’s been described in a recent report as a startling lack of regular exercise in their daily ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: #1 - Shopify
  After all, this year’s fastest growing company and former OBJ Startup to Watch e-mailed us – in a pinch – a slightly blurred digital ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: #2 - Enabled Success Inc.
  But that was all about to change. “(The company) wasn’t focusing on the software side of the business,” explains CEO Mr. Merkas, adding the two ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: #10 - The KTL Group Inc.
  As larger-scale IT houses laid off workers and other companies switched off the hiring taps, Mr. Harding says he had the proverbial pick of the ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: #8 - MediaMiser
  Certainly not local startup MediaMiser, a first-time OBJ Fastest Growing Company and recent recipient of an OCRI/Exploriem Bootstrap Awards ...
• Drummond reflects on a career in economics
  He's not planning on doing much travelling. At all. "There is one drawback of my job, and that's all the travel," reflects Mr. Drummond, who will ...
• UPDATE: Group seeks real estate for Stanley Cup...
  The group, which calls itself Lord Stanley's Gift, said it envisions the monument as a "national and international landmark for Ottawa and ...
• Fighting for a cure
  That’s when the real impact of Fight For The Cure 2010 hit home for me. It had all seemed so abstract when organizer Matt Whitteker asked me to ...
• Changes for Rove, Woodbridge
  "It was just time to go," said Mr. Woodbridge, an OBJ Forty Under 40 recipient in 2009, in an e-mail last week. "I will say that I love that ...
• Cancer Centre campaign raises $24.5M
  The total, the largest in the organization's fundraising history, exceeded the foundation's goal of $20 million in 20 months for the expansion at ...
• Fighting - and sweating - for a worthy cause
  Who of these two would you cheer for in a fight? Not a real fight, mind you. Far from it. Nevertheless, it stands to reason that as The ...
• Bootstrap Awards honour self-capitalized firms
  "The founders created it as a way to finance their snowboarding in the winters," said Dimitri Onistsuk, the company's vice-president of ...
• Ottawa named one of world's most intelligent cities
  Ottawa made the list – comprised mostly of relatively small-scale cities and regions such as Talinn, Estonia; Suwon, South Korea; ...
• Bosses, workers have 'huge gulf' in retirement...
  A new Ipsos Reid survey indicates there's a "huge gulf in expectations" between both sides. Two-thirds of boomer employees – people aged 50 ...
• LOOKAHEAD 2010: A busy year for tourist industry
  "It would seem as if there has been a bit of growth in consumer confidence (lately), there's been a couple months of growth in the economy," said ...
• Corel culls 20 per cent of global workforce
  The cuts mean that around 20 local employees have lost their jobs, the company said, adding that it made the decision to "appropriately ...
• 2009: A year of flux in Ottawa tech
  But what were the main trends we saw this year, according to those in the trenches? Most obvious, says Pat DiPietro of VG Partners, was the ...
• STARTUP CHECKUP 2009: Magmic Games
  After all, the Magmic CEO and owner of ByWard Market hotspot Mercury Lounge is readying to be shot into space within the next couple years ...
• STARTUP CHECKUP 2009: IPeak Networks
  First, back in January, the company received around $500,000 in financing from the Ottawa Angel Alliance and Ontario's Investment Accelerator ...
• STARTUP CHECKUP 2009: Fuel Industries
  When we caught up with the advergaming company last January, CEO Jeff Doiron told OBJ the firm was focused on cracking the "virtual world" ...
• Brisk startup activity drives flurry of events
  But when, 14 months ago, he and his partners founded social media application company Network Hippo, he says they couldn't just rely on ...
• Jazz Fest steps to new federal cash
  The festival launched a day's worth of free programming at Confederation Park including three major concerts, with an attendance of around ...
• Phreesia to hire "at least" 50 local staff
  Phreesia, whose Ottawa office was founded around 18 months ago, offers technology meant to replace the reams of paper files and clipboards ...
• FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES: View from the top
  It might come as a bit of a surprise - and, hopefully, an inspiration - that a strong bunch of our top companies are relatively fresh startups ...
• Slow sales? Here's a solution
  It's not that I'm all that surprised I managed to get one. Far from it, actually, despite the noticeable lack of stock at every sales outlet ...
• Hypocrisy goes mobile
  You know the ones. They feature that mustachioed guy in his fluorescent headband, gyrating energetically to the beat of increased savings. ...
• Zoom Airlines under investigation
  Court documents filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto by Ottawa-based Doyle Salewski Inc. say Zoom gave $6 million in loans ...
• A pitched battle for Zarlink
  As was first reported on Ottawabusinessjournal.com in early July, a splinter faction of concerned shareholders - christened the 'Leckie ...