April 24, 2024

‘The Usual Suspects’ – A Look At Conventional and Non-conventional Angel Investment

VEF will look at the latest trends in Angel Investment as well as reviewing the latest in conventional angel activity. The panel will discuss some of the new Angel funds recently announced in Vancouver and some non-conventional angel investment. Moderated by Brent Holliday from Garibaldi Capital Advisors and VP of Corporate Development at … [Read more...]

Netflix’s ISP rankings confirm the expected: Google Fiber is ‘the most consistently fast ISP in America’

Like there was ever any doubt, right? Netflix -- which serves up over one billion hours of video streaming to some 30 million members per month -- owes it to itself to keep track of which ISPs are killing it, and which simply need to be killed. Now, the outfit's finally ready to begin publishing its findings, ranking America's major Internet … [Read more...]

10/16/2012 – The 2012 CBC Massey Lectures, ‘The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos’

The 2012 CBC Massey Lectures, The Universe Within: From Quantum to Cosmos, will be delivered by Neil Turok, Director of  Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. Every technology we rely on today was created by the human mind, seeking to understand the universe around us. Scientific knowledge is our most precious … [Read more...]