Archive for April, 2007
Note to NBA Commissioner David Stern
30 April 2007Dear Mr. Commissioner,
We were pleased to receive you recently in Toronto, on the occasion of Raptors coach Sam Mitchell being named “Coach of the Year”. You might have noticed how enthusiastic the crowd was, and we appreciated your observation that the NBA is thriving in this foreign outpost – 12 years hence.
It is the [...]
Tough time for IP CEOs
30 April 2007Does the CEO of an intellectual property-driven firm have a shorter shelf life?
I blame it all on Mosaid. A few years ago, Mosaid was stuck in a funk. The company thought that they had some serious IP but they weren’t getting much value for it. Stock was stuck below $10. Then [...]
ROB Magazine features Wellington Financial
29 April 2007Ken Hunt did a short piece called Faces of Debt for the May issue of the Report on Business Magazine. Included in the story was a profile on Wellington Financial.
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Ottawa VC funding down
28 April 2007OCRI announced this week that Venture funding in Ottawa hit a 10-year low of $8 million this quarter which is 78% below the same quarter last year. Trailing 12-month VC investments were also down at $235.5 million.
Here’s a contrast – at the same time, the NVCA announced $7 billion of US VC investments in Q1, [...]
GMP slaps sell on Digital Dispatch
28 April 2007Given the relative paucity of sell ratings, it is always news when a firm reduces a tech story to a “sell”. Here’s GMP’s summary note on Digital Dispatch Systems (DD:TSX).
“Digital Dispatch Systems Inc.
REDUCE
DD $2.62 Target: $1.95
Lowering target price and recommendation to REDUCE
. For the past several quarters Digital Dispatch has performed poorly from [...]