Showing all articles in the Tech About Town category
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OpenText digs in for a good cause
13 May 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Opinion, Tech About Town
OpenText's team spend a week helping out Habitat for Humanity. Read more
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John Chen’s rebuilding of BlackBerry, and what’s in Waterloo’s secret sauce
06 May 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Opinion, Tech About Town
John Chen, while not a Waterloo Region local, now works in and is part of our ecosystem in their rebuilding of BlackBerry. Communitech News sat down with John Chen to talk about this. Read more
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Industrial design and cat adoption make a purrfect pair
29 April 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Enterprise, Tech About Town
Janice de Jong is not only passionate about design, but also about helping cats. Read more
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Hack the Orchestra hopes to rewire old perceptions
22 April 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Tech About Town
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony launches a hackathon to create solutions for orchestras. Read more
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Helping others led Amaris Gerson to find her own path in the tech industry
15 April 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Opinion, Small to Mid Size, Tech About Town
With a background in both recreation and leisure as well as geography, Amaris Gerson tried out different roles to find a fit for her skillset after graduation, before turning a volunteer position at HackerNest… Read more
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A pitch a day keeps an engineer focused, says Pout co-founder
08 April 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Startups, Tech About Town
Laura Smith, co-founder of Velocity-based fashion startup Pout discusses her path to becoming an engineer. Read more
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Put your game face on for TableTop day
01 April 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Tech About Town
Board game cafés have been popping up all over the Waterloo Region. An interesting turn back to childhood actives for some, for others a continued hobby. There is a massive benefit to playing board games… Read more
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Entrepreneurs find teamwork that knocks it out of the park
25 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Opinion, Startups, Tech About Town
Mike Kirkup and Brian Zubert worked together 10 years ago at BlackBerry. Fast forward a few years and the pair have launched Score More Baseball, a cross-platform app that simplifies baseball game scoring… Read more
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Giving back and getting involved: How one university student spends her free time
18 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, News, Startups, Tech About Town
Communitech News follows busy student, Alexa Roeper, on how she spends her free time getting involved. Read more
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Restaurateur has healthy appetite for downtown food scene
11 March 2015 | By Kayleigh Platz in: Ecosystem, Tech About Town
Bill MacTavish is now a seasoned entrepreneur with years of experience learning at his own pace in the hospitality field. His journey has led him to save two downtown Kitchener hotspots — Imbibe and The… Read more