Archive for January, 2012
Going long the Social Software space
30 January 2012What a nice time of year to have been doing due dili on a story in California. Sadly, I missed out and Mark Usher and some of our colleagues had the pleasure of finding and closing today’s US$6 million venture debt financing for a Silicon Valley-based provider of social software and services. The [...]
Mark McQueen co-hosts BNN
26 January 2012For those of you who missed it today at 2pm, Mark McQueen was back as a regular guest co-host on the Business News Network’s “Business Day†with Kim Parlee. They discussed the perspective on the importance of routing and exporting Canadian oil after the Keystone XL delay.  They also gained insight into Potashcorp’s Q4 earnings [...]
Rigor In Mortis?
24 January 2012That’s the plan? Do a better job of executing while promoting the same ops guy that led the team to a one year delay in the BB10?
I’m trying to imagine what the share price would have done had the following been announced by Research In Motion (RIM:TSX, RIMM:Q) yesterday:
- stay the course [...]
Mark McQueen co-hosts BNN
19 January 2012For those of you who missed it this afternoon at 2pm, Mark McQueen was back as a regular guest co-host on the Business News Network’s “Business Day†with Andrew Bell and Kim Parlee. On today’s show, Alex Pourbaix, President, energy & oil pipelines at TransCanada discussed what’s next for Keystone as well as Lisa Raitt, [...]
Make your 2012 fee budget — bid CSU
17 January 2012It slipped by me at the time, but Constellation Software (CSU:TSX) took itself off the market two weeks ago, having announced last April that it was considering “strategic alternatives”. With two large shareholders in OMERS and Birch Hill Equity Partners (on behalf of TD Capital Canadian PE Partners), most assumed that a sale would [...]