IMPORTANT JUNE 30, 2011 DEADLINE:

Like many entrepreneurs, you may have used your RRSP to invest in your private company to help you capitalize the company and defer tax on its shares’ future growth, or you may be thinking of doing so. But changes reintroduced in the June 6 federal budget billed as stopping aggressive tax planning such as “RRSP strips” have surprisingly changed the landscape on allowing private company shares in RRSPs. [..]

CANARIE’s Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research
• Do you want to speed time to market and ramp up revenues?
• Do you want to minimize product development costs?
• Are you part of a small or medium-sized (less than 500 employees) company?

Then CANARIE’s DAIR Program is a great fit for you … and it’s no charge!

Learn more Tuesday July 5, 2011 2pm-5pm at The HUB, 151 Charles Street West, Kitchener [..]

The VeloCity Team will be attending Montreal’s International Startup Festival from Wednesday July 13th to Friday July 15th.  We have looked into chartering a plane to Montreal and would need 12-15 people to join us to make such a venture possible.  The flight will cost $374.31 per passenger for a return trip, including taxes and surcharges.

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Five export related programs (US, India, Africa) thanks to International Trade Branch – Ministry of Economic Development and Trade including the potential visit on July 19 of senior executives from AT&T and ScanSource plus three smaller US system integrators interested in acquiring Ontario technology. [..]

Cyborg Trading Systems, based at the Communitech Hub, is one of just 3 national winners in Microsoft Canada’s Blue Sky competition; an annual award designed to recognize “the most disruptively innovative ISV solutions”.

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Founded just 18 months ago, Canadian Cloud Computing is garnering national press for its leadership position in cloud computing. Most recently featured in IT in Canada, the article speaks to the growing international market for cloud computing and CCC president and founder Wally Kowal’s business and marketing strategies.