Category: Technology
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Global Cannabis Applications (APP.C): Canada’s cheapest weed play makes tech pivot
This piece was written for and originally posted on Stockhouse, in partnership with Equity.Guru Last year, when the Pokemon Go app was launched across the world, Planet Earth was gripped (for a hot minute) in Pokemon fever. Imagine fidget spinners combined with cronuts mixed with 1990’s boy bands merged with bacon, and you’d be getting…
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Respect Your Universe (RYU.V): sexy sweaty yoga money
In 1998, a 42-year-old Canadian entrepreneur named Chip Wilson observed the surging popularity of Yoga classes and realised that there was no equipment, no uniform, no auxiliary sales to financially exploit the modern fitness trend. Seizing the opportunity, he designed comfortable machine-washable yoga-wear. That innovation would have been enough to make him rich. But then…
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Trading tuesday: Lottogopher (LOTO.C) to debut on public markets
I’ve been waiting for a while on this one. Lottogopher (LOTO.C), a company that allows, for the first time, California lottery players to buy tickets online, is about to land on the Canadian public markets this coming Tuesday. If this doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, this whole ‘online lottery sales’ thing, I’m…
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Inside Nano One Materials’ (NNO.V) high tech pilot plant
I get it, you’ve heard of Nano One Materials (NNO.V) and you know they’ve promised they have tech that makes battery metals processing cheaper, better, smarter, stronger, faster, sexier, a more tender lover, a dab hand with a hammer, more likely to be chosen valedictorian, and a sure-fire future favourite of Tesla. The market has…
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The lithium-ion battery primer: How to invest in what’s next
A week ago, when I hosted a Cambridge House Vancouver Resource Investment Conference panel on the lithium business, you couldn’t get a seat at the event for love or money. They were crammed into the back of the room and beyond, to see execs from companies like Lithium-X, Neo Lithium, Millenial Lithium, and Iconic Minerals…
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Robix Environmental Technologies (RZX.C): Cleaning up on cleaning up oil’s act
If you’re someone who thinks the world should use less oil, that we shouldn’t be building pipelines, that we should do everything we can to move away from fossil fuels, do I have an energy stock for you. No, it’s not wind turbines. No, it’s not solar cells, or lithium batteries, or weed or pills.…
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In case you missed it: Nano One Materials (NNO.V) could be a gamechanger
[Reposted as part of our ongoing investing column at VancouverIsAwesome.com] As part of our Investing is Awesome series, we like to highlight the local companies in Vancouver that are making big changes in the world, and that you can actually buy a piece of. Yes, you, with the high rent and three jobs. We’re not…
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Zoomaway Travel (ZMA.V): The antithesis of Priceline
Let’s set the scene. You’re a hotel owner. Nothing too swish, just a nice little getaway location off the truck stop, a half mile from the lake and another half from the golf course. There’s a Raddisson down the highway some and a Motel 6 up the road and the Holiday Inn Express is at…
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Patriot One Technologies (PAT:V): The first ‘Trump Presidency’ play on the Venture
When Donald Trump won the US Presidential election (hack, ptooey), the markets plummeted. Then they jumped. Frankly, the markets didn’t know what to do with themselves, and still don’t. Will Trump’s pick for AG, Jeff Sessions, kill the marijuana industry? Will oil and gas come back with pipelines aplenty, or will that create an oversupply…
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Reliq Health Tech (RHT.C) pushes deeper into a large and growing market
When it comes to the importance of technology and the innovation it offers, perhaps no market is more significant than the community care and personal health space. All too often, the ability of individuals to receive the care they need is hindered by matters of mobility – a situation that can make a big, big…
