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RE: General Business Updates and News - jgsz - 01-19-2018
(01-18-2018, 02:36 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: Toronto is the only Canadian city still in the running for Amazon HQ2.
Toronto's bid includes Waterloo Region.
Quote:The city's bid includes the cities of Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton, the regional municipalities of Durham, York and Halton, and partnerships with Waterloo Region and Guelph.
Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, does not get along with that stable genius, Trump. So, if he wanted to stick it to Trump, Toronto will be chosen. But the probable backlash may not be worth it for Amazon.
RE: General Business Updates and News - jgsz - 01-19-2018
And there's this from the New York Times:
Quote:Toronto’s second asset, he said, is its publicly funded university and college system. The University of Waterloo has long been recognized as one of North America’s top technology schools, and the University of Toronto is a major center for research in artificial intelligence. As part of the area’s Amazon pitch, the province of Ontario has increased funding for artificial intelligence programs at its universities by 30 million Canadian dollars, or about $24 million.
RE: General Business Updates and News - DHLawrence - 01-19-2018
Considering what Amazon is worth, I expect they could weather anything thrown at them.
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 01-30-2018
RBC is opening a cybersecurity lab at UW
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/rbc-to-open-cybersecurity-lab-at-university-of-waterloo-1.3780195
RE: General Business Updates and News - Pheidippides - 02-03-2018
To borrow a theme from another thread, it looks like the Waterloo economic development corporation decided on 'Waterloo' and not 'Waterloo Region' or 'Kitchener' etc. for its branding campaign.
Waterloo brand pitched to global businesses instead of Region of Waterloo
RE: General Business Updates and News - Elmira Guy - 02-03-2018
Marijuana company expanding into former Lear building
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/marijuana-company-expanding-into-former-lear-building
RE: General Business Updates and News - KevinL - 02-03-2018
(02-03-2018, 02:23 AM)Pheidippides Wrote: To borrow a theme from another thread, it looks like the Waterloo economic development corporation decided on 'Waterloo' and not 'Waterloo Region' or 'Kitchener' etc. for its branding campaign.
I didn't see it in the video, but their website has the full branding including logo.
RE: General Business Updates and News - robdrimmie - 02-04-2018
I am an advocate of the simplicity of just "Waterloo". No one outside the region gives a fig about the nuances of our cities and townships, and any promotion benefits us all.
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 02-07-2018
Article on an interior design company doing work for many startups in the region, Dfy Studio.
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8028431-startup-boom-means-business-for-interior-designer/#.WkcI4jrTgPA.twitter
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 02-16-2018
The winners of the Federal Government's superclusters competition have been announced, The Toronto-Hamilton-Waterloo region supercluster for advanced manufacturing was one of the five winners.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/advanced-manufacturing-supercluster-gets-green-light-from-feds-1.3804855
RE: General Business Updates and News - Viewfromthe42 - 02-16-2018
There's something a bit funny about Linamar being such a focus, in that my previous employer did huge amounts of work to create the advanced manufacturing systems for them, so while Linamar bought and utilized them, and gave us a bunch of parts and what the finished assembly of those parts should be, it was my former employer (and myself in certain jobs) who actually conceptualized, developed, and created the advanced manufacturing. Also a bit awkward in my mind because Guelph was always the part of HSR that I would have been inclined to skip, since they had the smallest population, the worst transit network connections, and the most inflexible and inconveniencing part of the route.
RE: General Business Updates and News - robdrimmie - 02-22-2018
Indigo Fair is a SF-based company with a Waterloo office. They just raised a $12 million USD round.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/22/indigo-fair-raises-12m-to-connect-wholesalers-with-smaller-retail-outlets-with-a-smarter-service/
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 04-25-2018
Huge contract awarded to BWXT in Cambridge for work to be done at Bruce Power.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/cambridge-company-inks-642m-deal-with-bruce-power-1.3899443
RE: General Business Updates and News - tomh009 - 04-25-2018
(04-25-2018, 05:27 AM)rangersfan Wrote: Huge contract awarded to BWXT in Cambridge for work to be done at Bruce Power.
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/mobile/cambridge-company-inks-642m-deal-with-bruce-power-1.3899443
I guess BWXT is the new identity of Babcock & Wilcox (who have been working on nuclear projects for ages).
RE: General Business Updates and News - rangersfan - 04-27-2018
Waterloo software company Netsweeper is in the negative limelight today.
https://www.therecord.com/news-story/8570040-waterloo-company-accused-of-censoring-the-web/