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Vincent Cheung, founder of Shape Collage and a MaRS client is a recipient of the: Advancing Canadian Entrepreneur (ACE) 2010 National Student Champion, Richard Ivey School of Business Competition and the MaRS Upstart competition.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a highlight at the LeWeb conference in Paris: MaRS client and Canadian start-up, InteraXon's thought-controlled computing technology. Ben Rooney writes, "One of the most (no pun intended) thought-provoking presentations at the recent LeWeb conference in Paris was that by Ariel Garten, CEO of Toronto-based Interaxon."

Gizmodo gives MaRS client, Interaxon, some love over their thought-controlled installation at the Olympics in BC. Part of a demonstration of all the cool stuff that Canada has to offer in technology, this "Bright Ideas" installation used minds to control a light show at Niagara Falls.

TechVibes writes about MaRS client and Toronto start-up, Interaxon. Interaxon demonstrates their thought-controlled computing technology: two iPad applications at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

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.

GigaOM's Katie Fehrenbacher asks: "What if cars had connections in them at all times that turned them into driving financial transactions and would support automated billing for parking and tolls like congestion charges? That's the idea behind a Toronto-based startup called Skymeter." Skymeter is a MaRS client.

Erin Bury writes for BlogTO about the top 10 Toronto web start-ups of 2010. Seven are MaRS clients!

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?

A new IDC report, "Ten Canadian Digital Media Companies To Watch: Toronto," profiles ten promising digital media start-ups based in Toronto. Seven of the ten are MaRS clients! BitStrips, InGamer, Nulayer, PushLife, Shiny Ads, Verold and Visibli are among the companies featured as "innovating and excelling" in the digital media sector in Toronto.

Did you InGame during the SuperBowl this weekend? InGamer fuses the three dominant screens in our lives: television, computer and mobile.

The Village Gamer mentions MaRS' funding sources database in a blog that shows how Canada is Creative Central. It's listed along with a number of other awards for those in the digital media space.

In this guest blog post by Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer Sports (a MaRS client), Nic talks about the lessons he's learned from his gaming favourite: Wayne Gretzky. And there's one in there from Yoda too. Find out what Wayne can teach you about building a successful company in Canada.

Metro features uBuddy, a MaRS client whose social media product just launched. uBuddy, based at the University of Toronto, allows students to facilitate note-sharing, meetings and course discussions online.

As a guest blogger for the Ministry of Research and Innovation, Chris Arsenault of iNovia Capital writes about the Ontario delegation of digital media companies to New York with MaRS.

Viafoura is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week.

Toronto start-up and MaRS client, WeblishPal interview on BNN's The Pitch. WeblishPal is an online platform that connects English teachers and students across the world.

Minister Glen Murray (Ministry of Research and Innovation) launched MaRS as a member of the Ontario Network of Excellence last month. In his speech, he highlighted our client, 1DegreeBio. 1DegreeBio helps those in the biological sciences share their data, including being th first online independent resource listing all academic and commercially available antibodies. Score 1 for open science!

MaRS client Locationary is profiled as a company who's already doing what FourSquare is thinking to do. Locationary is part of our information technology, communications and entertainment practice. They offer community-sourced location-based data for free.

Toronto Life talks about the hotbed of mobile apps in Toronto. Prominently featured is MaRS client, Polar Mobile. They develop apps for more than 150 companies, including Sports Illustrated, Time, CNN, CBS and the Food Network. Their apps have been downloaded six million times and counting.

The Star features MaRS client, WeblishPal, an online tutoring software that pairs English-speaking tutors with foreign-language students to find each other, set up tutoring sessions and rate the teacher.