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David Stein of Rypple

Overthrowing the performance review: Toronto's Rypple makes waves in the HR department

Paul Gallant Wednesday, August 18, 2010
If Facebook can make you feel good about your relationships, why can't Rypple make you feel good about your workplace? This Toronto company is applying social media to the office.
Hadi Mahabadi of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada

Hadi Mahabadi of Xerox Canada explains how skilled immigrants help push innovation

Edward Keenan Wednesday, August 18, 2010
With researchers from 37 countries, the Xerox Research Centre of Canada's "diversity of thought" strategy, adopted in 2004, has resulted in a 17 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of its patent ideas.
Jeremy Friedberg of Spongelab Interactive

"No ma, this game is helping me learn" - Toronto's serious gaming companies have kids thinking

Joseph Wilson Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Imagine Guitar Hero for your brain: Toronto companies Wero Creative and Spongelab Interactive are creating computer games that are both fun and get kids learning too.
Artez

Toronto's Artez Interactive brings Web 2.0 to fundraisers around the world

Piali Roy Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Artez Interactive is the behind-the-scenes company that helps fundraising campaigns take part in the social media revolution.
FundTunes

Charitable giving just got innovative and healthy with FundTunes

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Forget about selling candy bars and bake-sales -- new company FundTunes was co-founded by Toronto entrepreneur Eduardo Alvarez, a Queen Street entrepreneur and gym-owner, who wanted a more healthy way to raise quick cash for charities.
Cognovision

Watching the signs of the times has led Markham's Cognovision to do a global business

Naheed Mustafa Wednesday, June 16, 2010
In a time of shrinking ad sales, Markham-based Cognovision has developed an innovative way to count how many people are looking at digital ads in public spaces, all while maintaining privacy.
Michelle Hamilton-Page

Net Change Week: Toronto's social innovators are making Don Tapscott's predictions come true

Joeseph Wilson Wednesday, June 09, 2010
It's Net Change Week at MaRS and tech-biz thinker Don Tapscott is asking us to rethink how, well, just about everything operates. It's a new way of doing things, and Toronto's social innovators like Michelle Hamilton-Page at Toronto Public Health are helping lead the way.
John Kiru of TABIA

Q&A with TABIA's John Kiru on Toronto's Best Export: the BIA

Edward Keenan Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Toronto's Bloor West Village Business Improvement Area recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. A world's first in 1970, BIAs have since spread across the city, country and around the world. The Toronto Association of Business Improvement Areas' John Kiru explains how the idea started and spread.
Head Gear Animation

Got 3D? Toronto's Head Gear Animation is leading the film industry in new directions

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Head Gear Animation are known for their ground-breaking work that mix up a variety of different animation techniques. Their latest venture is the first 3D commercial in Canada and its production required pioneering a new stereoscopic technique.
Ethical Ocean

Toronto's Ethical Ocean e-commerce startup may just change what "shop till you drop" means

Julia Belluz Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Toronto's Ethical Ocean, a new e-commerce startup, is trying to change the way we consume by offering ethical choices. With lofty goals and considerable business ambition, they might just do it, one purchase at a time.
Scientists in Schools

When Scientists go to School

Piali Roy Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Ajax-based Scientists in School brings the fun into science education and hopes to breed a new generation of innovators from an early age.
Vintage One

Q&A: Creating a local community of top-notch winemakers

Alexandra Shimo Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The De Miguels come from a family of Argentinean winemakers who grew up helping out on their family's Woodbridge winery. They decided to bring that experience to the city, opening a new D.I.Y. urban winery that teaches Torontonians how to make premium booze. 
Why Not Theatre

Why Not Theatre asks "why not Toronto?"

Tasleem Thawar Wednesday, April 07, 2010
The medium is part of the message for Why Not Theatre, an innovative and growing Toronto-based theatre company that uses both technology and the city's global, diverse connections to produce contemporary work.
Dion Oxford

Laundering revenue the innovative way

Edward Keenan Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Downtown Toronto's Salvation Army Gateway shelter has turned a liability -- its dirty laundry -- into a revenue source and in the process given homeless men steady employment and work experience.
Angela Wong-Liao

Power in Numbers

Anna Olejarczyk Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Angela Wong-Liao has made networking easy by creating the Power Networking Group, a keep-it-simple platform that allows business people from the 905 and 416 area to meet once a month and connect, all without the usual fees.
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