Montreal Tech Watch

Akoha, one of the most secret technology startups in town, seems to be finally ready for launch, with a private event coming up next week. The project, whose development started more than 1 year and a half ago, plays in the social gaming space, with strong incentives for users to interact with others. Here’s a [...]

Company: Domus Media Position: Intégrateur de Sites Internet Responsibilites and Tasks: – dans l’immédiat, intégrer 2 nouveaux sites Internet; – participer à la conception des sites et favoriser l’amélioration de ceux-ci; – faire les mises à jours chaque fois que nécessaire (aux deux semaines environs); – réaliser les animations flash pour ces sites; – assurer [...]

Syntenic has launched a brand-new website, which explains their full array of services. Previously, Syntenic just provided a blank homepage and an interface for their clients. The new Syntenic website focuses on 3 services: optimization of the network used by the web application, the design of a customized web hosting environment for the web application, [...]

Following the series of “was-too-busy-to-even-think-blog-it-here”, UNYK.com has launched recently public profiles for its 9 million users. As you all know, UNYK is an online address book that solves the problem of outdated friends’ contact details. When one of your contact changes his/her phone number for instance, UNYK will then update your address book automatically, on [...]

BuyCanadianFirst wants you to do one thing, which is … buy Canadian products, as the name suggests. In case you didn’t get the concept, they included a generous amount of maple leafs in the website’s design, bright reds and whites, plus 16 instances of the word “canada” in the homepage. The venture in itself was [...]

MontrealTechWatch has had up to 10 contributors in the past, a few have moved abroad, a few have started their own ventures, while the rest were just one-time writers. For the past 2 months though, I am the only contributor to the blog. This unfortunately didn’t allow me to cover everything going on in technology [...]

Thanks to everyone who came this morning for the Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast! Between 30 to 35 people came, which is a record for the breakfast. We had new faces, new entrepreneurs, pros working in diverse startups in town, many having new projects. We even had one guy (or girl) who left and forgot to pay [...]

Thanks everyone for the feedback on the Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakast! The post was up initially to “gauge interest” for these breakfasts, and I think the comments went beyond expectations, proving that there’s strong interest for meetups and meeting entrepreneurs. Even if there were a few diverging comments, most wanted an informal event, that would [...]

The MontrealTechWatch server has been moved to slicehost, for reliability, and also for architecturing reasons. I missed some of the action which might have happenned here, but there should be a follow-up soon; plus a few user comments might have been lost in the transfer process. Thanks for keeping up.

I wrote in march a rather quick summary of the “Anges Financiers” gala, with a last note stating how the featured companies had interesting ideas but without any potential “breakthrough” technology. Christian Laforte, CEO of FeelingSoftware, replied then with an elaborate analysis on what they’re doing and where they were going. Since then, I’ve met [...]