Wahl on Tech
Innovation and the business of technology
Here's a refreshingly honest post from FreshBook's Mike McDerment about all the mistakes he's almost made with his Software-as-a-Service business. Read between the lines and you'll glimpse the pressures faced by innovative entrepreneurs.
Aug
26
Another Monday, another New York Times story that's got me thinking. This week, it's an article examining U.S. Congress's growing interest in how Internet companies collect and use the bread crumbs of personal information we leave in our travels through the Web. It is a major issue, and while it's ...
Aug
08
I hope some Canadian wireless executives—whether they be inside the big three incumbants, or the new owners of wireless spectrum—read this New York Times story, which looks at how U.S. wireless carriers are starting to open up their mobile networks. In Canada, the wireless industry continues to nickel and dime, ...
Jul
11
Well, that was quick—for the RCMP's financial fraud cops, that is. The Mounties' Integrated Market Enforcement Team (IMET), laid criminal fraud charges today against former Nortel (NT) CEO Frank Dunn and his two key financial executives, Douglas Beatty (a former CFO) and Michael Gollogly (a former controller), 466 days after ...
The issue of Canadian Business that hit newsstands Thursday features our annual Tech 100 ranking. We took a different approach this year: it's still the list of Canada's biggest publicly traded technology companies, but we decided that running company financial metrics in a big table spread over two pages was ...
