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Canada’s Axine Water Technologies Raises Millions From Venture Capitalists In Clean Technology Sector
0By: Talha Bhatti | September 20th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, News, O Canada
Vancouver based Axine Water Technologies has announced that it has successfully closed a multi-million dollar equity financing round. The funding was led by Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital who was joined by the Business Development Bank of Cana...
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Canadian Start-up Guardly Partners With Traditional Firm To Grow User Base
By: Talha Bhatti | September 15th, 2012 | Business, Gadgets, Health, Living, News, O Canada, Smartphones
Guardly is a Toronto based start up that makes a security app for smartphone allowing users to send out emergency signals with just a tap. The application is being used by people who want to alert a group of friends or family in case of a number of different emergencies. For example people with allergies use it in case they have an allergic r...
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Chicago Makes Pedestrian Safety A Priority With New City Wide Plan
By: Talha Bhatti | September 15th, 2012 | Health, Living, News
Chicago has unveiled plans to make the streets of the Windy City a lot safer for pedestrians. The reduction of car accidents will be accomplished through an extensive pedestrian safety plan that has nearly 250 recommendations. The report highlights a varying number of tech...
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Discovery Communications Invests $31.5 Million in Innovative Brain Game Start Up Lumosity
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 23rd, 2012 | Business, Games, Health, iOS, Living, Mobile Apps, News
Created by neuroscientists from Stanford University, Lumosity aims to improve core cognitive abilities through games. The company has been on a tear, increasing revenues by 25% quarter over quarter since its inception in 2007. That type of growth as well as 25 million members, 10 million of which have joined...
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Advancements in Wearable Electronic Technology Could Disrupt Both Medicine and Sport
By: Kuljit Grewal | August 13th, 2012 | Health, Living, News, Sports
Imagine a highly skilled surgeon being able to apply a thin flexible sleeve to a patients beating heart in order to monitor the organ as accurately as possible in real time. Thanks to a cross-culture research team from three universities in two countries, the ability to do so is within grasp. The technology that would allow the above as well as surgical gloves that would eventually al...
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SXC Heath Solutions – Canada’s New 800 Pound Tech Gorilla
By: Kuljit Grewal | April 27th, 2012 | Health, O Canada
Although the recent news that SXC Health Solutions (SXC) had successfully acquired Catalyst Health Solutions for $4.4 billion dollars caught many by surprise due to the sheer value of the deal, it has been a long-time coming for Canada’s new tech giant. The firm, one of the first in the world to build and integrate technology used in pharmacy benefit management, was founded in 1993 ...
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