Razzle.ca, a montreal-based ecommerce website, is opening tomorrow Friday, 23rd Nov, and will give its visitors the opportunity to buy a heavily-discounted product each day. They manage to offer a low price thanks to lower inventory costs, less promotional costs, and also by getting specific deals on end-of-the-line products from manufacturers and wholesale suppliers. Razzle [...]
[a venir] 5 à 7 Montrealcoworking, 21 Nov.
On en a parlé lors de BarCampMontreal2, on l’a entrevu dans le wiki yulstart, et maintenant, on a apparement atteint la dernière étape pour le projet “coworking”, puisque Patrick Tanguay invite toutes les personnes intéressées à un 5 à 7 mercredi soir, au Bar Inc. 250 avenue Mont-Royal Est. Comme c’est le premier du genre au Québec, j’imagine [...]
Ubisoft Montreal releases Assassin’s creed
Ubisoft Montréal has released last friday the next-generation video game Assassin’s Creed. The local game studio has also released recently major titles, like Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6, Naruto, the rise of a Ninja, or Far Cry, but I find this new title interesting from a technological and business point of view. Some observations: To my knowledge, it’s [...]
TwitterDroid – an Android app for Twitter
5 days after Google launched the Android SDK, Fred Brunel finished TwitterDroid, an Android application that updates Twitter on your Android-enabled cell phone. This is a proof how easy it is to make an Android-based application. Even if I know Fred Brunel is not your ordinary developer (he made TwitterCal, a Ruby on Rails application in [...]
A take about producing artistic and cultural shows on the Internet
ca.intruders.tv has an excellent interview of Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan, who make the Galacticast show. They were at BarCampMontreal3, but I missed their presentation, which was about Canadian content regulations on the Internet. As independent content producers, they oppose any law or organization which would make sure that there is a majority of Canadian [...]
Job Listing: Sales Account Executive at TeliPlus Inc.
Company: TeliPlus Inc. Position: Telecom Business Telephone System Sales Account Executive Responsibilites and Tasks: TeliPlus Inc., a Telecommunications Interconnect that provides value added connectivity solutions for business’ in the sales and maintenance of products and services of Business Telephone Systems, CCTV, and Structured Cabling markets, is actively seeking a Telecommunications Sales Account Executive. The Account [...]
Bell launches HTC Touch with “unlimited” data plan at $7
Tech blogs in North America hailed yesterday Bell Canada as the first North America carrier to offer the HTC Touch with an unlimited internet and email data plan at $7, which if found true, would be a dramatic price plunge from their previous offers. See this advertisement from Bell: image from engadget’s post In the [...]
Kakiloc.com closes
Kakiloc, started by Martin Dufort and then Alain Lavoie, was to offer a mobile presence service. You could for instance know via your cell phone if you had friends nearby. Now, Martin Dufort has “closed the experiment”, although he will continue to blog at location-based.blogspot.com. He also plans to reuse the location-based technology for future [...]
Venture Capital in Québec, Q3 2007 figures
Réseau Capital has released yesterday a study about venture funding in Québec and in Canada. The study is in french and is 8 pages long; you can find it in their “communiqués” area. Some key figures: They have observed a 30% growth in VC investments from year-to-year Meanwhile, the rest of Canada went through 47% [...]
Blitzweekend Open Meeting, Nov 14th
We had a great Blitzweekend open meeting yesterday at Laika. 10 entusiastic people showed up, and we got to brainstorm with some of the brightest minds here in Montréal. Ideas were challenged, the concept was discussed, fresh ideas were brought, and we exchanged on how it fits in the overall technology&entrepreneurship space. It’s great to [...]
