Tag: big data
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C): 52% jump on high performance computing provider validates CEO stance of ‘patience and focus’
When folks ask AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO Anthony Brown what his company does, he usually asks, “Have you seen the Spielberg movie, Ready Player One?” Most people say no. That’s a shame, because the movie is great, and it explains what AMPD is looking to achieve pretty well. AMPD wants to build The Oasis, a…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) high performance computing power attracts Artificial Intelligence contract
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C), which recently topped up its bank account to bring in more sales folks, announced some sales today, with a news release pointing to a new contract with an artificial intelligence company. AMPD Ventures Inc. has signed a deal with Variational AI Inc. to supply machine-learning infrastructure hosted at AMPD’s DC1 sustainable data…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) shows off its new HPC data centre with big launch party and stock jump
Last night, Vancouver’s tech elite were crowded into the Waterfall Building, off Granville Island, enjoying cocktails, tasty vittles and, most importantly, tours of AMPD Ventures’ (AMPD.C) new DC1 high performance computing data centre. This was no ordinary tech soiree, there were representatives of some seriously large partner companies, potential clients, and folks who AMPD would…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) jumps 31% after short attack falls away
Technology public markets newbie AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) has had an interesting first 7 weeks on the market, initially doubling in value out of the gate, before profit taking and short selling drove it well down to 2/3 of its initial financing price in just as quick time. That downswing swung back hard today, with a…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) management pulls baller financing move, fights off shorters
AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) CEO Anthony Brown told a reporter yesterday he was looking to raise money for acquisitions and growth, with a $2 million raise announced a few days ago. Nothing weird about that. What was maybe a little weird was the flex Brown was pulling in the announcing of that financing. With his stock heading…
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AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) secures video rendering deal with team behind Rick and Morty and Teen Titans Go!
My favourite thing is when a company says ‘we’re going to do a thing,’ and then a few weeks later they announced that thing actually happened. That shouldn’t be a weirdly high standard but, in the public markets, it is. A few weeks ago, AMPD Ventures (AMPD.C) told the world it had completed work on…
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CUV Ventures (CUV.V): What if you built a bank while nobody was looking?
when you ask Steve Marshall, CEO of CUV Ventures (CUV.V) about Cuba, he says, “It’s a lovely place. Great people. Lots of opportunity.” He doesn’t say (anymore), “We are all in on Cuba.” He used to, but the world has changed a little. Pre-Trump, Cuba opening to the world was the next big thing. But…
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Cryptocurrency deal puts eXeBlock (XBLK.C) into frame as payment processor for Peerplays network
‘The Force is not about lifting rocks. It’s a tension, order, balance.’ I know someone who has seen the new Star Wars movie eighteen times will correct the quote above, but when I saw it, that’s how I remembered Luke Skywalker’s words. I noted them specifically because, frankly, they explain why blockchain is going to…
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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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Second Set of Eyes: Canabo Medical (CMM.V) getting ahead of Big Data in Big Dope
Strange Situations in An Evolving Healthcare Environment For all of the cultural support that Canada has for adult cannabis use, and all of the mileage that federal politicians have squeezed out of that support, cannabis legalization in Canada for recreation use is still a ways off. The task force report published in December reads like…
