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CBC writes about highlights of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the Canadian companies who were there. Specifically highlighted are MaRS client and tenant, XYZ Interactive, who works in gesture-controlled technologies as well as InteraXon, who works with thought-controlled computing.

Have you read or heard about Andrew Coyne's paper, "Stuck in Traffic?" It talks about how Torontonians are spending more time commuting to work. Eye Weekly points out that we've got the technology to solve that problem right here at MaRS. It's our tenant and client, Skymeter. Skymeter, a company founded by local businessman Bern Grush, has designed a device that sits inside vehicles and tracks the location and distance of travel using GPS technology, adjusting for price changes in real time. To address privacy concerns, the Skymeter sends only the price information to authorities-data about where and when you've travelled stays inside your car, and you can erase it as often as you like. The technology has already been tested for road pricing in Asia and proved effective. So why aren't we using it in Toronto, Eye Weekly asks?

Axle Davids, CEO of MaRS client and tenant, Distility, speaks on The BusinessCast, an iTunes podcast for entrepreneurs.

The week of October 3, 2011,  Segasist Technologies, a MaRS client and tenant will launch its' new cancer diagnostic tool Reconcillio at the American Society for Radiation Oncology conference. Reconcillio is Segasist Technologies' third product and is awaiting FDA approvals.

Cognition LLP, a MaRS Tenants, is offering free legal consultations to entrepreneurs.

Ambit is headquartered in San Diego but they also have a lab tenanted at MaRS. And they've just raised $15 million! Congrats!

MaRS and MaRS tenant OICR were two of many locations for a great video promoting businesses and sectors across Canada. It's being shown to international media and visitors during the Olympics. See us at time index 00:54.

MaRS tenant Axela Inc. pursues South American diagnostic assay market through MOU with Cria Opportunities Inc.

MaRS tenant and entrepreneurial investment firm, Auxo Management, is profiled in this Globe story. It's a new breed of investment firm for small to medium sized companies - and a rare to find in Canada.

Visualize a global positioning system (GPS) device that knows where you've parked, and for how long. Imagine it can send this information directly to a company that will bill you, without allowing that company to spy on you. Skymeter, a MaRS client and tenant, is profiled in IT Business in a video interview.

Skymeter has developed a GPS-enabled device that's in direct communication with a satellite orbiting the Earth. The GPS enables drivers to conveniently (and accurately) make good their bills for services such as parking, toll road use, and pay-as-you-go insurance.

Profound Medical Inc, a MaRS client hopes to improve quality of life for men with prostate cancer by developing a faster, more precise treatment aimed at reducing side effects. Profound Medical won the $200,000 Premier's Catalyst Award for a start-up company with the best innovation. Avenir Medical Inc, a MaRS Client was named Ontario's Next Top Entrepreneur at the conference of the Ontario Centres of Excellence.

Bern Grush of Skymeter, a MaRS tenant and client, talks about metering car-use. Why is it the way of the future? Pay for your use of the roads, pay for your use of fossil fuels, pay for your contribution to city-road congestion. It's about making better cities and a cleaner environment. All it takes is the Skymeter satellite technology!

Bern Grush's company, Skymeter, makes a GPS-based system capable of tracking every inch a vehicle travels, how long the trip takes and where it is on the road.

Data from social media consulting firm Sysomos (MaRS client) says Twitter users are separated by six degrees. Article in the New York Times.

MaRS connects our clients with the Consulate of Canada in San Diego through a program called MarketLink. MarketLink connects large companies to start-ups with new technology. MMB Research and Talking Plug were able to pitch their cleantech IT technology to Sony.

Two MaRS cleantech clients, MMB Research and Talking Plug present their technologies to Sony.

MaRS client, TheRedPin.com launches their new site for helping condo buyers in Toronto.

Accolades for MaRS ICT client OpenFile from Wayne MacPhail, a journalism prof and general news guru. He uses OpenFile with his students and says OpenFile is hyperlocal, fully engaging communities in their own coverage.

Want some real demographics and numbers on the impressions on your offline ad? Cognovision, a MaRS client, can deliver. And now, Intel will be part of that action as they announced their purchase of the Toronto start-up for serious money.

Aimed at companies with nine or fewer workers, the bookkeeping and invoicing service lets you designate transactions as business or personal. Wave Accounting, a MaRS client, launched their software/service this week.

Smart pricing of transport as embodied by MaRS client, Skymeter is one of Scientific American's "World Changing Ideas".

Bering Media is offering digital direct mail marketing with a unique privacy-protection service.The company has attracted both investors and clients in its first 18 months of operation. Bering Media has received business development assistance from MaRS Discovery District.