Google Finance Canada was quietly launched last week, there are no major features to the existing Google Finance product, it will however provide Canadian specific financial data, portfolios in Canadian dollars and equity data to Canadian exchanges.
Silicon Valley has been on a high for at least the last two years, everyday we are hearing about a new start-up being launched and with it funding dollars that are being spent. Other parts of Canada have also seen a big spike in start-up growth such as Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver so the news of the Toronto’s Venture Group shutting its doors is pretty disappointing, but a sign of bigger problems.
Here are some of the other industry stories and news that we talked about in this edition of The Week That Was.
Account Wins:
MTS Allstream wins $17 million contract with Government of Quebec
Nortel awarded $300 million to proide VOIP solutions
LiveHive Systems brings Interactive TV to Turner Sports
Headlines:
DDB Canada jumps into the social media space with Radar DDB
A Couple of Chicks launch Kuikene
Ottawa Senators� new podcast and social media strategy
Deal Flow:
Club Penguin acquired by Disney for $700 million
Domainer Inc. secures $2million in financing deal
Octopz secures $376M in investment funding from GrowthWorks
New Hires:
Edelman Canada hires Jason Kinnear as VP of Technology
DDB Canada promotes Yvonne van Dinther to Managing Director of new social media division, Radar DDB
Mobile VOIP Start-up Talkster hires new President
Knowledge Center:
MySpace still tops Facebook as most visited social network for 15+ year old visitors
Consumer VOIP predicted to reach 37 million by 2011
Financials:
Kaboose reports Q2 results of $8.14 million
Diversinet Corporation reports strong Q2 results
MDC Partners reports Q2 financials of $135.3 million
Nurun reports $3.1 million revenue for Q2
Jobs:
Web Application Developer – Toronto
Junior Search Engine Marketing Specialist – Toronto
Upcoming Event:
Profectio’s Summer Bash – August 9
Word Up! 07 – October 16
As the World Searches II – October 31
