Radioactif, a local internet service provider, announced earlier this summer that they will deploy a Wimax network in Montreal, with Nomade Telecom as the mobile wireless expert partner for this project. The announced date was then September 2007, but they have now a page about the details of the service, which is now due Dec. [...]
Is MOBIVOX Montreal’s current star startup?
MOBIVOX announced today that they have now a new COO, Nitzan Shaer, who was previously an “Entrepreneur-In-Residence” at IDG Ventures Boston, which I guess is a fancy way to call a business developer. IDG Ventures Boston led earlier this month series A funding for the voip startup, raising a total of $11million. Nitzan Shaer worked [...]
Upcoming: Web Development Book Club, October 29th
There is a Web Dev Book Club next monday, October 29th. If you are involved in web design, web development, and/or web marketing, this is the ideal opportunity to share, discuss and learn about current and new tools, software and developments in the web landscape. The event is open to all and works around books [...]
MSBi Capital changes name to iNovia Capital
MSBi Capital is now iNovia Capital, and their new office address is 1155, bvd René-Levesque West, Suite 2701. They have announced it’s because they will be expanding their team, deals, their VC network and will also be growing to other geographic regions. MSBi Capital was a VC fund known for their involvement with academic institutions, [...]
Weblo launches content monetization platform
Last tuesday, weblo, a controversial Montreal startup, has launched a new section called digital assets. Internet users can list videos, accounts from social networks, email addresses, or blogs. The main destinations supported are currently youtube, google video, metacafe, myspace, facebook, gmail, yahoo, hotmail, blogger etc. For instance, a user can claim a youtube video; and [...]
CITIZENShift relaunches as an open publishing platform
CITIZENShift, a project by the National Film Board of Canada, is a platform where creatives and activists are invited to self-express on social issues, through pictures, text, videos and podcasts. The platform is quite successful with young creatives; and they have now a new theme every month debating social changes. Creatives would send their videos [...]
Rogers Wireless, first and only carrier in North America to offer mobile video calls
Rogers has launched yesterday the highly-publicized HSPDA service in 22 cities in Canada. The coverage is mainly done in BC, Ontario, and Québec with 5 cities, Montreal included. As reported earlier, HSPDA is the only “true” 3G service currently avalaible in Canada, allowing data bandwidth similar to cable or ADSL. Rogers has also developed mobile [...]
Guide to Startup Funding by Ben Yoskovitz
Benjamin Yoskovitz, co-founder and CEO of standoutjobs, has written a guide on how to get funding if you plan to enter the startup world. He explains how bootstrapping works, love money, angel funding, and series A funding. He finishes with tips and additional ressources on the subject. Now, I try to comment every piece of [...]
Open invitation to a blitzweekend meeting
You may recall the first post mentionning an event called blitzweekend, where the goal was to make a product within a very limited timespan, i.e. 2 days. We are now going forward, and have a date for the first “official” blitzweekend for Montreal, Nov 24th and 25th. Teams of 3 to 5 are invited for [...]
Innovative video blogs in Montreal
If you are interested in videos and its usages for the web, I stumbled into 2 new shows, both bilingual, and done by local video bloggers. The first one is done dy Marie-Claude Beaucage and Veronique Boisjoly and is titled “dans ton salon”. They come into a musician’s living room, have an interview, and get [...]
