TBridge Partnering Companies Ranking among top 50 firms in Canada
According to the annual review of Canada’s top 300 tech firms, 7 of Canada’s top 40 firms are from Ottawa, despite the economy hitting the ICT industry hard, and despite the Nortel downfall.
Read moreOIC team work: Going from talk to competition launch
I’ve been working with TalentBridge for a year now, in a couple of different capacities, and have been able to see a number TalentBridge initiatives through – none so swiftly or as efficiently as OIC. Steve Robins and Will Armstrong, under the direction, assistance and support of Manu Sharma and with the assistance of Amanda [...]
Read moreOIC: a type of Business Competition previously missing in Ottawa
For those of you who have sat around and complained about the lack of business competitions in town – pay attention. OIC is exactly what has been missing from the Ottawa business landscape. An intense, fast paced, business competition focused on innovation, applicability, and execution rather than primarily business plan writing (which is a valuable [...]
Read moreWhy Students Don’t Start
I bought some web hosting this week, hosted my blog, threw up the UWO Debate website and I’ll put up some other projects that I’m working on over the course of the year. Hosting is dirt cheap, I probably spend more in one week socializing with friends than I did for two years of web [...]
Read moreSoftware Standards – Is There a Point?
When GMail got rid of the pesky “sent on behalf of” and allowed me to send mail using the UWO SMTP server, I finally ditched Microsoft Outlook (which I had been using for 4+ years) and went to the cloud. Over the last week, I have loved having access to my e-mail, no matter which [...]
Read moreMicrosoft – Yahoo Merger?
Its sounding more and more likely that some form of search licensing deal will be announced tomorrow between Microsoft and Yahoo. I remember reading a quote last week from someone, and I can’t remember who, saying that the time you can stop worrying about your competitors is when they start merging. It means that they’ve [...]
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