The Sunday Edition of the CBC Radio Show has posted a podcast of their interview with Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist Muhammad Yunus.
About Muhammad Yunus:
After the great famine of 1974 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh was founded by Muhammad Yunus. This bank was the first in an innovative approach to moneylending now known as "micro-banking". The Grameen Bank makes loans to the poor, and functions as both a business and a social development program (CBC, The Sunday Edition).
MaRS Advisor and Clear Blue Technologies co-founder Miriam Tuerk, Toronto Public Library's first "entrepreneur-in-residence," spoke on CBC Metro Morning about MaRS and small business in the GTA.
Tom Rand spoke with CBC News in June while taking a break from promoting his book Kick the Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies to Save our World in Europe about why the world should kick its oil addiction - and why he thinks it's possible.
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.
Keri Damen, Director of Entrepreneurship Education at MaRS Discovery District talks about MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 program with Matt Galloway, CBC Metro Morning.
Dr. Hossein Rahnama, Research & Innovation Lead at Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is a world authority on location-based context-aware mobile services. MaRS Innovation is in the process of working with Dr. Rahnama to spin out a company called Flybits. Dr. Rahnama is interviewed on Metro Morning.
In 2010-2011, 77 Canadian tech firms were acquired by foreign companies, mostly American, according to Branham Group, a research firm that closely follows the tech sector.
In 2010-2011, 77 Canadian tech firms were acquired by foreign companies, mostly American, according to Branham Group, a research firm that closely follows the tech sector.