Montreal Tech Watch

I went to an event last thursday on bvd St-Laurent, expecting a democamp-style presentation, instead discovering that the Akoha team did in fact organized a party. If I didn’t meet technology people, I would have thought this was the launch of a movie or a party thrown by a pop star. Austin Hill invited rock [...]

Encan Bougon is a new service by Denis Canuel, that allows you to find items whose auction price is below $1 on eBay. You can find for instance new smartphones for less than 0.02$, Dell desktops for 0.99$, lots of great books around 0.0.7$ and 0.7$. I am not sure if you can really get [...]

Videopresse (by Christian Aubry) did an interview this wednesday of Richard Langevin, during the public protest at Société des Arts Technologiques. He explains that by cutting in subventions, Ottawa is threatening programs, exhibitions, events, and also the support that the SAT is giving to digital artists. They also do research & development about digital identity [...]

Thanks to everyone who came yesterday at Montreal StartupDrinks. Delighted to meet everyone; as always a nice diversity of people *, and most of all great to hear about new technology projects. As Jevon MacDonald at StartupNorth says, it’s the time of the year for you to decide to start your project, set new goals [...]

The third edition of StartupCampMontreal has been announced for 27th November, as always brought to you by the enthusiastic team from Embrase. The recipe is the same as the previous ones: get 5 startups to present each their business to a crowd of 300+ of entrepreneurs, executives as well as consultants and investors. A group [...]

FACIL, une association qui prône l’Informatique Libre, a annoncé aujourd’hui le dépôt une requête en cours supérieure du Québec visant le gouvernement provincial, et ses pratiques d’approvisionnement en logiciel. La requête vise tout spécialement une clause qui permet à ses services d’acquérir directement un logiciel quand il n’y a pas d’alternatives; clause apparement utilisée abondamment [...]

iWeb Inc. announced yesterday a whopping $22 million funding by Goldman Sachs, a leading New York investment bank. The funding is mostly debt, with also $3 million provided in shares. The funding is said to fuel growth for its data centers, add infrastructure for their dedicated servers offers. iWeb announced a new & third data [...]

Summer has nearly gone by, with its hot (and rainy) days, holiday trips, and bbqs. For most of us, it also means going back to work and get back to the normal busy schedule (unless you work for a startup, in which case you didn’t even know you were supposed to take a break). We [...]

Quebec-Tech had a story this week about Île sans fil‘s problems within the Ville de Montréal administration. The non-profit organization, which had earlier this year a plan to blanket the city with free wifi coverage, is discovering endless layers of authorizations, officials and representatives, even though the initial plan was requested by the Ville de [...]

Ryma Technology solutions has closed a $7 million series B funding round, with iNovia Capital as lead investor, along with Novacap, another Montreal VC firm. Ryma Tech provides product management software, allowing companies to manage a product’s lifecycle, and most importantly give product managers an edge, by anticipating market needs, and improving innovation within the [...]