Archive for May 4th, 2010
Ember sells 10 millionth chip
4 May 2010Wellington Fund III portfolio company Ember announced today that is now the first company to ship more than 10,000,000 ZigBee wireless chips. Press release is here.
If you’re not familiar with them, ZigBee chips sit in smart meters and home automation and security systems. They’re low power and let devices communicate data wirelessly. They form the [...]
Old home week at the Canwest newspaper auction
4 May 2010To think that the left-leaning Toronto Star may soon subsume the right-leaning National & Financial Posts. Quite the end to the newspaper war that’ll be, even if it won’t represent the actual end of fierce competition in North America’s most competitive print market.
What’s more fascinating is the players behind the various deal teams. [...]