My canadian business
The Canadian Venture Capital Association just released its Q3 2008 results, and they're not good: $372 million invested, down 26% from the same period in '07, with just 123 companies getting money, 17 fewer year-over-year. For the first nine months of 2008, financing is down 33%, and Canadian companies got ...

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There goes another up-and-coming Canadian tech company. OZ Communications, a very successful 220-person Montreal firm making software for accessing e-mail and instant messaging services on consumer mobile phones, is being bought by Nokia. Just last week OZ was lauded by Deloitte as the 8th fastest growing tech company in the ...

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