Technology

The founder of Avigilon Corp. (TSX: AVO), one of the few Vancover high-tech companies to go public in recent years, opened the TSX Wednesday morning, the same day it posted solid year-end financials.

Vancouver dating site PlentyofFish.com is being sued by the family of an American solider for hosting an ad that featured the man’s photo four years after he was killed in battle.

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (TSX:MDA) had an 11% increase in revenue in 2011 over 2010, according to the company’s 2011 annual report.

Applying laws that predate the “electrification” of North America to circumstances that currently exist with the omnipresent use of information technology socially and in commerce is an enormous challenge. However, the ability of the law to adapt to new realities is one of the greatest strengths of our common law system.

Telus invests $1 billion in technology it says can help control health-care costs

Richmond’s MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd . (TSX: MDA) has signed a $4.2 million contract with Vancouver’s UrtheCast Inc. , a subsidiary of Earth Video Camera Inc.

Pixton Comics has won a $30,000 grand prize in the BC Innovation Council 's New Ventures regional competition, open to companies outside Metro Vancouver that have yet to secure financial backing for their innovations.

Polymer Research plans to build a pilot plant in Burnaby that will convert the ubiquitous foam into a recyclable liquid

Vancouver's high-tech sector expects to create 3,000 new positions this year

One of the greenest buildings in Canada will feature technology developed by a University of British Columbia spinoff company that uses sunlight to light the interior of buildings.