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Fujitsu Canada, a unit of Japan-based Fujitsu, is buying TMC, a business and IT consulting company based in Saskatchewan. Financial terms of the deal were not revealed. "The acquisition of TMC enhances Fujitsu Canada's offerings and consolidates its presence in Saskatchewan, a province that has experienced major economic growth," said Andre Pouliot, president of Montreal-based Fujitsu Canada. TMC has about 70 employees. David Luterbach, president of TMC, said the deal will help boost growth for both companies.
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Siemens will buy RuggedCom, a Canadian maker of data communications networks systems, for about $382 million, to improve access to markets in North America and the Asia-Pacific region. The deal is Siemens' largest since it took over Israeli solar thermal fields maker Solel for $418 million in 2009. Anton Huber, CEO of Siemens Industry Automation division, said the acquisition of RuggedCom would improve Siemens' router and switch products.
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Canadian technology to help manage mobile phone bill shock has attracted attention from a major U.S. software firm. Anomalous Networks, a Montreal-based provider of real-time telecom expense management software, was purchased by Tangoe. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although a regulatory filing made by the Connecticut-based acquirer said the offer included a combination of cash and stock worth approximately US$9 million. Anomalous offers a free app for consumers as well as a paid version for businesses.
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Fujitsu Canada has launched the Fujitsu Innovation Center in Quebec City, a $20 million initiative that will create 50 jobs and could lead to the creation of other specialized jobs in the years to come. A $14 million over three years has been made by Fujitsu, headquartered in Tokyo. The Fujitsu Innovation Center is a collaborative space where business partners and customers will work with Fujitsu specialists to put ideas into practice and build business solutions. “The work there is different from that of an R&D center,” explained Mr. Giroux, senior vice-president and director of Fujitsu’s Quebec City office. “The work involves prototyping or demonstrations,” he says Fujitsu estimates that it will develop some 20 initiatives in cooperation with about ten partners in its innovation center by March 2014, innovation being one of the key elements of its development strategy.
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A $70-million joint project between the private sector and the government of Quebec has been announced to develop more energy-efficient technology. The initiative, called Equation, will bring together six ICT companies working on similar projects having to do with cloud computing and smart meters. Each of the companies will undertake their own projects. However, the non-profit company, Prompt, which forges partnerships between the industry and university research, will coordinate much of the work. The participating companies are CGI, Ericsson, Fujitsu Canada, IBM, Miranda Technologies, and Teledyne DALSA. They will invest a total of $40 million into the project.
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Trying to move beyond its thin client business, Wyse Technology has acquired Montreal’s Trellia Network, a mobile device management company focused on helping companies deal with the consumerization trend. Trellia will become a subsidiary of San Jose, Calif.-based Wyse, the companies announced. The acquisition has been in the works for about six months.
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Calif.-based Adobe Systems announced its acquisition of Vancouver-based developer, Nitobi Software, creator of PhoneGap. PhoneGap is a tool that allows developers to code once and author native apps in multiple mobile environments. Paul Gubbay, vice president of product development for design, web and interactive at Adobe calls PhoneGap a natural fit. Dave Johnson, CTO of Vancouver based-Nitobi Software, agrees, despite the fact that Nitobi went about it in a different way, making PhoneGap open source and allowing the community to contribute.
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Indian consulting and IT services provider, Mahindra Satyam, as part of its ongoing collaboration with the University of Waterloo, announced the opening of a research and innovation centre. The Smart Grid Research and Innovation Centre will provide students, teachers and IT professionals the tools to foster and evaluate innovative developments of next generation smart grid technology, the company said.
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Supported by 2011 sales, Visual 2000 International is recruiting for its global customer support and product development departments. Positions in the expansion include customer training and system implementation professionals at the company’s European headquarters in Manchester, U.K.; and software developers in Montreal and Shanghai. Among the software products contributing to the company’s sales results are the Visual PLM.net product lifecycle management and Visual ERP enterprise business solutions.
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ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and professional services, announced a new office in Kanata, Ontario and the appointment of Brian Mackintosh as the ABBYY Canada Country Manager. In order to support the needs of Canadian partners and customers in the enterprise and SMB markets, as well as federal and provincial governments, ABBYY Canada plans to hire field sales and technology support staff in the coming quarters to facilitate growth within the region.
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With the support of the New Brunswick government, a web-based marketing services company, Hostopia, will create up to 75 jobs in Miramichi. Hostopia will employ close to 300 in Miramichi once it completes the workforce expansion during the next 18 to 24 months. Hostopia provides web services enabling businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence that can be found by potential customers. The company provides these services in partnership with communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars and web-hosting service providers.
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Google is expanding its Canadian footprint and putting down deeper roots in Kitchener, Ontario. Part of this expansion includes a new funding partnership, of $900,000, with the University of Waterloo. For Google, Kitchener's office is not only the company's Canadian R&D headquarters, but also one of Google's most important recruiting outposts in the quest to acquire the top talent coming from one of Canada's top universities. The Waterloo region represents perhaps the search engine's most important hub outside the U.S. "Outside the company's global headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., few offices have proved as vital to Google as the Kitchener-Waterloo location," said Stuart Feldman, Google's vice-president of engineering. "There's more than enough talent to go around. All Google engineers are good, but these ones are really good," concluded Feldman.
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University of Calgary researchers have developed an iPhone application, called ResolutionMD Mobile, that helps diagnose a stroke in patients that aren't in the presence of doctors. Researchers say that the app will be particularly helpful to doctors in rural areas who need the expertise of a specialist, such as a neurologist or radiologist, who is working in an urban setting. For a video of the app release, please click on this headline.
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A research team at an Ontario University has introduced tablets and smart phones with a plastic, flexible prototype that's "just about paper thin." Queen's University's Human Media Lab, which unveiled the e-paper technology, claims that the research team is "onto a game-changing technology." As technology evolves and gets cheaper, a high-resolution colour screen capable of playing video would be integrated into the device, as well as some touchscreen controls, added creator Roel Vertegaal.
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Dell Inc. plans to acquire information technology firms in Canada and Europe. The Texas-based company is expected to buy Dell Financial Services Canada Ltd. and CIT Vendor Finance's Dell-related assets and sales and services business in Europe. Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed. The Canadian acquisition is scheduled to close by midyear. The two acquisitions are the latest in a series of foreign deals that the company has completed this year to expand beyond the personal computer business.
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Moscow-based Online Market Intelligence (OMI), which provides online fieldwork, has opened an office in Canada, with expansion in mind. OMI provides online data collection, as well as survey translation and programming, sample-only studies and top-ups. The firm's new Vancouver office will be led by Boris Lyukmanov.
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A report shows that 30% of Canada's ICT industry is based in the Toronto region. The report is part of Toronto's broader look at ICT and Interactive Digital Media (IDM) sectors. According to Canada's High Tech Hub: "Toronto remains the nation's centre for ICT research and development, and is enjoying sustained growth and high employment." Toronto's ICT sector is comprised of 11,522 companies that generate $52.2 billion in annual revenues.
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Scala, a software provider for digital signage and advertising management based in Exton, PA, announced a new installation for Ad Manager and Scala 5 with Newad, an indoor advertising network in Canada. Scala Ad Manager will manage over 20,000 digital and classic Newad boards in more than 2,500 establishments across Canada.
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RadNet, Inc., the owner and operator of U.S. freestanding outpatient medical diagnostic imaging centres, has opened a radiological software development centre in Summerside, PEI. RadNet has about 4,300 employees and 200 centres across the United States. The company anticipates eventually having 15 people employed at its Summerside operations.
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California's AMD announced a new generation of processor, called Fusion, that will be designed with the help of Canadian ingenuity, reports the Globe and Mail. The Fusion technology has been in the works for several years, thanks to AMD's 2006 acquisition of Canada's ATI Technologies, which gave it the graphics expertise and intellectual property it needed to integrate graphics chip and CPU into a tiny processor unit.
