Why Edmonton is better than Vancouver and Toronto

It’s funny how Toronto and Vancouver always seem to be suggested as a couple of the best places to do business in Canada, at least when it comes to technology companies.

What everyone doesn’t realize is that it’s actually Edmonton. This city far outstrips those other two cities in terms of quality of life and a number of other factors.

A Start-Up Business YouTube?

It seems that in the state of the current economy more and more cities like Edmonton are seeking new ways to promote their young entrepreneurs and technology sectors. Just recently we discovered some striking similarities between the technology sectors of Edmonton and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

It seems that young entrepreneurs are beginning to find success in promoting [...]

Edmonton’s Technology Community: Using Social Media to Raise Awareness

Edmonton, AB—Edmontonians magazine is partnering with FusedLogic to raise the profile of the Edmonton technology community and its companies and prove how effective use of social media can positively impact businesses.
Edmontonians, a monthly business publication serving the Capital Region, recently kicked off its Visionaries —Insight, Innovation, Ingenuity project with the goal of increasing awareness of [...]

Edmonton is more than Oil and Gas

 
 
For quite some time now, Edmonton’s technology sectors have been making national headlines.  Just recently, DataGardens was selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten Technology Competition winners.  This news came as a delighted shock to president and CEO of DataGardens, Geoff Hayward.
 
DataGardens will be showcasing its Syntropy hardware across North America.  Syntropy, the latest in [...]

Investors are Seeking Safe and Practical Investment Opportunities

 
 
 
 
Recently Edmonton was named one of the 21 Smartest Communities in the world by the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF).   Yet the technology and life science sectors of Edmonton seem to have fallen below the radars of many economic strategists in the past.  However, in the state of the current economic crisis facing the world today, [...]