September 24, 2017
Hive Blockchain's shares have only been trading for a few days, but they have been the subject of massive interest from investors. Far from being bid by hopeful punters, some of the biggest names in investing have made buying Hive's shares a priority. US Global Investors is sitting on 10...
September 23, 2017
Tesla Motors is known for making drop dead sexy electric cars that can spank most of their gas powered competitors. But what may be an equally profitable market for the company is the shift toward using renewable power sources in electrical grids around the world. In February of this year AES...
September 22, 2017
It is fair to suggest that the low and high for copper's recent rally are probably in place. Copper opened the month well above $3usd/pound, and as the week draws to a close, it has fallen below $2.90usd/pound. The red metal started its rise from below $2.50usd/pound, which is a pretty hefty...
September 21, 2017
The recent rally in gold prices seems to have stalled over the last week. While the yellow metal had risen to the highest price in nearly a year, over the last days it fell below the $1300usd/ounce mark. Some in the market cite a moderately hawkish stance by the US Central Bank, while others say...
September 20, 2017
The Extraordinary Future Conference is finally here! Today will be an action packed day filled with industry leaders speaking about what they do best. One of the featured speakers is Jamie Brown, who is a Vice Chairman at Canaccord Genuity Group, and it will be great to hear what he has to share...
September 19, 2017
Blockchain has taken the investment world by surprise. But there are a few people out there who have been ahead of the curve, and now one of them is putting his knowledge to work for Canadian investors. Alex Tapscott is one of the world's foremost authorities on FinTech. When the World Bank was...
September 18, 2017
Helios Wire has a very interesting idea. This newly founded company wants to make IoT more affordable, and also available in the furthest reaches of the planet. In most cases IoT connectivity relies on a cellular network to function. The same frequency that lets you surf the web from your...
September 17, 2017
It's no secret that Vancouver is home to a dynamic economy that is known for pushing the envelope. VR/AR technology is gaining in popularity, and since 2010 it is estimated that more than 15 million headsets have been sold world wide. There are a few industry leading VR/AR development companies...
September 16, 2017
Bitcoin has taken the world by storm. It has risen in price over the last few years, and recently traded over $4,000usd per Bitcoin. But cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin exist outside the traditional monetary system, and many institutional investors haven't been able to participate in a growing...
September 16, 2017
Virtual Reality (VR) technology isn't a new concept. The idea to create an immersive 3 dimensional computer generated world that a person can interact with has been banging around for decades, but it is only in the last decade that it became commercially viable. In many ways we are still...
September 14, 2017
The world of personal finance has changed a lot over the last few decades. Today kids are growing up in an economy that is radically different from the one their parents knew, and Vancouver based company Guru Card is helping parents to teach their kids about how the world of card based electronic...
September 13, 2017
The world is evolving new ways of making connections. Today the ways in which technology is being created to connect people and devices is astounding. As long as a person has a connection to the internet, they can talk to anyone else for virtually no cost. But the potential that wireless...
September 12, 2017
Medellin, Colombia - Rick Rule of Sprott Asset Management is the keynote speaker at the 2017 Colombia Gold and Copper Symposium taking place on November 14th and 15th at the Hotel San Fernando Plaza in Medellin, Colombia. The Colombia Gold and Copper Symposium is rapidly establishing itself as a...
September 12, 2017
Cinema goers have seen a huge number of novel technologies enter the marketplace over the last decade. In Vancouver pioneering animator, cinematographer and visual artist David Cameron is working with one of the newest video capture technologies out there, and the effects that stereo 3D 360 video...