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Iain Weir-Jones and his engineers make motion, navigational and tectonic analysis technology, including an early earthquake-detection system that’s gaining traction in quake-prone regions around the world

Given the frequency of extreme market fluctuations over the past few years, it?s no surprise that investors are growing weary of volatility.

Four years ago, when he was 64, Dean Alexander got a rebuke from his kids: enough of your bellyaching about traffic congestion in Vancouver, Dad. Why don?t you do something about it?

This small company's big idea has legs. It might take $20 billion or so to get them moving in the right direction, but once they're in full stride that'll amount to small change compared with the potential investment return.

Have you ever sat silently in a meeting in which an idea that you have known could not possibly work was enthusiastically presented and endorsed by others?

Looking south

Despite roiled equity markets, global mergers and acquisition (M&A) transaction volume – measured in dollars – remains on track for solid growth in 2011.

Geoff Molson had several reasons to uncap a bottle of his favourite Molson Export on October 6 in St. John's.

Despite all the talk about a post-PC era, there are still an awful lot of PCs out there. In 2008, the number of laptops and desktops, estimated at a billion, passed the number of cars, and most of those computers run some version of Windows, now most often either XP or Windows 7.

It may have been music to the oil and gas industry's ears. But recent comments made by Premier Christy Clark in Fort Nelson have struck a discordant note for the environmental community.