Tag: technology
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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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American Aires (WIFI.C) defying gravity, running hard on 5G news, doubled since listing
In this sometimes bizarre microcap world we exist in, we’re often presented with ideas and plans that, at first glance, look like craziness. One of those, dropped on the market several years ago, was a company called Drone Delivery Canada (FLT.C). At the time, I talked to Richard Buzbuzian about his company and, though I…
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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) CEO to ring the bell Thursday, but execs are too busy to join him
Ringing the bell to signal the start of trading at the stock exchange is a time honoured tradition for executives at newly-listed public companies. It announces to the market, “We’ve arrived,” and is usually a time to be shared with executives, deal guys, board members, advisors, family members, hangers on, posses, minions, and that guy…
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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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Draganfly (DFLY.C) drone innovator nabs former US govt official as director
This morning, a North American drone company that has decades of experience in the business announced word that a former White House Chief of Staff will be joining its board. This is a big deal, because though drones have been a hot and cold market sector for years, right here, right now, is when the…
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Patriot One’s (PAT.T) new tech aims to save police officers’ lives.
Patriot One (PAT.T) – an A.I-driven concealed weapons-detection company – is looking and sounding less like a technology incubator – and more like a sales company. Check out the product demonstration videos on the re-vamped website. You’ve probably heard, the U.S. has an issue with guns. The situation is so dire that an Amnesty International…
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E-Sports ETFs are terrible and not really about e-sports, but what is?
Zynga (ZNGA.Q), the mobile video game developer, is a terrible investment. The sort of large company that only stays large because it’s large to begin with, thereby attracting dumb investment from institutional folks who buy the things they see mentioned on CNBC, Zynga made US$280 million in revenues last quarter, dropping a net loss of…
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E-sports in a nutshell: Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V)’s Overwatch League team makes finals, but where’s the dough?
If you bought into Enthusiast Gaming (EGLX.V) because they have a connection to the Vancouver Titans Overwatch League team, congratulations on their winning season, where they came runner-up in the finals against the San Francisco Shock. The Titans came into the final with a 25-3 record, which isn’t horrible, but wasn’t enough to take it…
