News Pick – Trump’s immigration policies are opening a door to the Silicon Valley of the North – Business Insider
April 7, 2017 – “It’s a startup founder’s dream: a community of 2,500 early-stage tech companies, a government investing in high-tech innovation and expediting work permits, and venture-capital investment levels not seen since the heyday of the dot-com bubble. This isn’t San Francisco, New York, or London — it’s Toronto. And its bid to become […]
Giving sight to those without it
Huffington Post – Apr 5, 2017 – (Read more)
News Pick – Michael Serbinis: When I realized the economics of my company didn’t make sense, it was really scary – G&M
March 31, 2017 – “The scariest point in time for any company is when they realize their product isn’t working for the market. The next scariest thing is fixing it, before time runs out. Getting product-market fit right is critical to the success of any small business. As business owners, we know this. That’s why […]
News Pick – Canada looks to develop a new resource: Artificial Intelligence – WSJ
March 31, 2017 – “Canada wants to be an artificial-intelligence hotbed. Don Walker, chief executive of Canadian auto-parts giant Magna International Inc. hosted a number of the country’s leading executives, scientists and politicians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at his summer home last July to mull ways Canada could move past its reliance on natural-resource […]
Diagnostic medical technology veering into Star Trek galaxies
Toronto Star – Mar 30, 2017 – (Read more)
News Pick – Canada counters Silicon Valley talent raid with fresh funding for AI – G&M
March 29, 2017 – “Canada is bracing for an intense global technology race as Ottawa, the provinces and corporations pump hundreds of millions of dollars into the burgeoning artificial intelligence sector in a bid to keep the country competitive as it faces technological changes in the years ahead. On Tuesday, Quebec commit ted $100million to […]
News Pick – It’s time for Canada to invest in developing artificial intelligence – G&M
March 26, 2017 – “It’s not often a new technology comes along with the potential to transform society. Think the steam engine, electricity or silicon chip. Today, the most transformative technology may be artificial intelligence, in particular the branches of deep learning and reinforcement learning, that are not only positioned to change the way we […]
Newspick – Can Canada trump the United States? – Techvibes
March 24, 2017 – “The current state of the foreign labor market in the United States is in limbo. The country has suspended the fast processing of H-1B visa applications, which are popular with technology companies. The current administration is arguing that this specific visa class has been exploited by companies who in turn bring […]
Exact Imaging introduces new FusionVu™ micro-US/MRI Fusion
Yahoo Finance – Mar 23, 2017 – (Read more)
News Pick – Inventing innovation: Making a formula for startup success – G&M
March 18, 2017 – “Cian O’Sullivan is the picture of confidence as he speaks to a packed lecture hall at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. A tall, lantern-jawed man, Mr. O’Sullivan begins his presentation with a slick video explaining the genius idea developed by Beagle Inc., his Kitchener, Ont.-based startup. Using artificial […]
