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Karen Schulman Dupuis

Everydaymoney.ca is a daily business blog published by MSN Money - 0 views

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clients InsurEye entrepreneurship ICT

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 30 Apr 12
     
    The rapidly changing makeup of home insurance rates means that finding the right company at the right time may be the best way to save on insurance costs.
Karen Schulman Dupuis

Creating transparency in the Canadian insurance market | Canadian Underwriter - 0 views

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InsurEye clients insurance

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 03 May 12
     
    InsureEye Inc. has introduced an online service intended to enhance transparency and provide consumers with a sneak peek at reviews for home, auto and life insurance.
Assunta Krehl

Kicking out the jams - The Star - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT Wireless Communications

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  • In November, Skymeter moved into the incubator at the MaRS Centre, where marketing expert Peter Evans has become their mentor and godfather. "Being surrounded by other entrepreneurs is inspiring and enlightening," Hassan says. "MaRS is an amazing place, with excellent speakers and events that are open to the public."
  • The father of Skymeter Corp. – which developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance
  • Skymeter's black box will be attached to the windshield of cars so the box has a clear view of the sky. (Grush has figured out how to cope with tall buildings blocking signals.) The box contains a GPS receiver, some memory, a processor and a telecommunications chip. The satellite beams down to the earth, the GPS receiver computes where it is and uploads its history to a data centre to generate the bill. The vehicle measures its own use; the bill is itemized like a cellphone bill. If you prepay, the bill can be calculated on board.
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  • But the next steps – getting the Skymeter vehicle location billing system tested in Europe, the U.S. and Canada – are crucial to the realization of Grush's entrepreneurial dreams.
  • pay-as-you-drive insurance. He spent two years driving around, collecting data, writing a little software.
  • Another person at the Innovation Centre offered to "take me in and help write a business plan – for a 40 per cent stake in the business," Grush says. "Fortunately, I found Kamal."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in the Toronto Star, "Skymeter Corp., a MaRS Tenant has developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Skymeter's goal is to put a dent in urban traffic congestion."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in the Toronto Star, "Skymeter Corp., a MaRS Tenant has developed a BlackBerry-sized device that uses GPS signals; placed in vehicles, it meters the use of roads, parking and pay-as-you-drive insurance. Skymeter's goal is to put a dent in urban traffic congestion." Feb 19, 2007
Cathy Bogaart

Business Continuity Awards 2011 - Geminaire - April 4, 2011 - 0 views

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geminare clients ict awards & competitions

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 04 Apr 11
     
    MaRS client, Geminare, is recognized in 2011 Business Continuity Awards in Most Innovative Product and Business Continuity Recovery of the Year categories. Continuity, Insurance and Risk (CIR), the UK's leading risk management, business continuity and insurance strategies journal, announced that Geminare Incorporated has been selected as a finalist in its prestigious 2011 Business Continuity Awards
Karen Schulman Dupuis

InsuranceHotline.com and InsurEye Inc. Join Forces to Deliver More Insights to Consumer... - 0 views

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clients InsurEye insurance entrepreneurship financing economy

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  • Karen Schulman Dupuis on 06 Mar 12
     
    In an effort to help Canadians make informed decisions about the type of credit card they use, InsuranceHotline.com has partnered with InsurEye Inc. to promote its Credit Card Navigator tool. This online tool is free to use and allows consumers to compare credit cards and the insurance coverage each card offers.
Assunta Krehl

SCM Risk Management Services Reception - Canadian Underwriter - February 1, 2010 - 1 views

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events SCM Risk Management Services (RMS)

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  • Assunta Krehl on 12 Feb 10
     
    SCM Risk Management Services (RMS) officially unveiled its new insurance-to- value (ITV) indexing technology at a reception at the MaRS Innovation Centre.
Assunta Krehl

Skymeter protects all your driving secrets - IT Business - February 18, 2010 - 0 views

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cleantech transportation clients & tenants Skymeter Corp.

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  • Cathy Bogaart on 19 Feb 10
     
    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.
  • Assunta Krehl on 22 Feb 10
     
    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.
Tim T

The Disposable Worker - BusinessWeek - 0 views

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economy entrepreneurship business

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  • LiveOps, a Santa Clara (Calif.) provider of call-center workers
  • from Eastman Kodak (EK) and Pizza Hut (YUM) to infomercial behemoth Tristar Products. She's paid by the minute—25 cents—but only for the time she's actually on the phone with customers
  • independent agent, Smith has no health insurance, no retirement benefits, no sick days, no vacation, no severance, and no access to unemployment insurance
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  • some economists predict it will be years, not months, before employees regain any semblance of bargaining power
  • this recession's unusual ferocity has accelerated trends—including offshoring, automation, the decline of labor unions' influence, new management techniques, and regulatory changes
  • forecast for the next five to 10 years: more of the same, with paltry pay gains, worsening working conditions, and little job security. Right on up to the C-suite, more jobs will be freelance and temporary, and even seemingly permanent positions will be at greater risk
  • We're all temps now.
  • the brutal recession has prompted more companies to create just-in-time labor forces that can be turned on and off like a spigot
  • Employers are trying to get rid of all fixed costs
  • Everything is variable
  • people who graduated from college in a recession earn 2.5% less than if they had graduated in more prosperous times, research has shown
  • Diminishing job security is also widening the gap between the highest- and lowest-paid workers. At the top, people with sought-after skills can earn more by jumping from assignment to assignment than they can by sticking with one company. But for the least educated, who have no special skills to sell, the new deal for labor offers nothing but downside.
  • All the employees had just stopped working
Sarah Hickman

MaRS Discovery District - Recommended Resources - Global Market Reports - VHA Research ... - 0 views

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health care & life sciences marketing market research

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  • Sarah Hickman on 15 Oct 09
     
    "The United States spends more on health care-related research and development than any other country. In 2003, it was estimated that the Federal government alone spent over $26 billion. Pharmaceutical companies, device manufacturers and other private companies invested over $10 billion more. At its best, the American health care system is capable of delivering care unsurpassed anywhere else in the world. Yet, a 1999 Institute of Medicine study estimated that as many as 98,000 Americans die each year from hospital related medical errors. A recent study by the Rand Corporation (a non-profit think tank) concluded that less than 50 percent of encounters with doctors and hospitals resulted in optimal, evidence-based treatment. Studies show that as many as 42 million Americans - almost 15 percent of the population - lack health care insurance. Surveys reveal that patients do not feel they have adequate information about their conditions, and that their experience with health care ranks below that of most other sectors, in fact below that of the post office. In the aggregate, the country is spending nearly $2 trillion on health care, and yet the nation's health care system does not meet acceptable thresholds for safety, quality, access or cost. In 2005, VHA Health Foundation's board of directors sought to better understand the reasons behind this paradox. The foundation commissioned Larry Keeley and his associates at Doblin Inc. to apply the rigorous analytical methods that are used in their evaluation of other American industries and companies. The project set out to discover when, where and how innovation was taking place in health care. It also sought to identify organizations that were developing model innovation processes, and to explore where opportunities for successful innovation might lay."
Assunta Krehl

RMS unveils new ITV indexing tool, dubbed 'iClarify' - Canada Under Writer - 0 views

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ICT software

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  • Assunta Krehl on 30 Nov 09
     
    RMS officially unveiled its new insurance-to-value (ITV) indexing technology at the MaRS Centre. Nov. 23, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Aggregate Therapeutics to play a key role in commercializing stem cell discoveries - 0 views

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Stem Cell Aggregate Therapeutics Inc MaRS Ilse Treurnicht

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  • Assunta Krehl on 10 Aug 09
     
    Biotechnologies au Canada: l'exemple de l'Ontario in Industrie Pharmaceutique, May 22, 2009 mentions that MaRS Discovery District is an Innovation Centre and mentions how it helps entrepreneurs to commercialize their research.
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  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    Cluster Growth Through Collaboration article in Ciencia Conocimiento Tecnologia, March 20, 2009 mentions about the MaRS story, MaRS' mission and programs and resources offered to entrepreneurs.
  • Assunta Krehl on 13 Aug 09
     
    From Mars to MaRS - Taking engineering innovation to the world from Globe and Mail Supplement. Article features MaRS and Krista Jones states "MaRS helps emerging start-up and entrepreneurial companies commercialize promising innovations." Jones states that "40% of MaRS Clients are engineering-based companies."
  • Assunta Krehl on 24 Aug 09
     
    Sowing the Seeds, Toronto Board of Trade member magazine, Dec 1, 2007. Skymeter Corp is working on a GPS technology for toll collection, parking management, and pay-as-you-drive insurance. The article talks about how entrepreneurs go about raising capital.
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery Distruict and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term publc oro private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
  • Assunta Krehl on 27 Aug 09
     
    As stated in Burrill Canadian Biotech News, "MaRS Discovery District and Canadian Stem Cell Network have entered into a partnership agreement to pursue long-term public or private financing for the translational development activities currently being undertaken by Aggregate Therapeutics."
Assunta Krehl

Mensante named one of Top 10 Healthcare Companies to Watch | Markets | CNW GROUP | Cana... - 0 views

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Mensante healtcare software

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  • Market research leader IDC Canada has featured MaRS client Mensante as one of its "Ten Canadian Health Companies to Watch" in 2009.
  • Leading international psychiatrists, family physicians, psychologists, work place mental health experts and mental health economists developed an innovative web-based mental healthcare system called FeelingBetterNow(R).
  • Dr. Ozersky, Mensante's CEO, was selected by the Canadian Association of Health Informatics as recipient of the 2008 Community Physician Leader and Innovator of the Year Award.
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  • About Mensante Corporation Mensante Corporation (www.feelingbetternow.com) is a privately owned Canadian corporation, founded in 2003. The Toronto-based company developed FeelingBetterNow(R) with the assistance of leading Canadian and American psychiatrists, psychologists, family physicians, a mental health economist, and work place mental health-care experts. FeelingBetterNow(R) is a valuable benefit for many, including insurance companies, employers, government agencies, professional associations, family physicians, patients and their families.
  • About MaRS MaRS (www.marsdd.com) is a non-profit innovation centre connecting science, technology and social entrepreneurs with business skills, networks and capital to stimulate innovation and accelerate the creation and growth of successful Canadian enterprises.
  • Mensante named one of Top 10 Healthcare Companies to Watch
  • Assunta Krehl on 07 Aug 09
     
    As stated in MaRS Press release "IDC Canada has featured MaRS client Mensante as one of its "Ten Canadian Health Companies to Watch" in 2009. Leading international psychiatrists, family physicians, psychologists, work place mental health experts and mental health economists developed an innovative web-based mental healthcare system called FeelingBetterNow(R).The College of Family Physicians of Canada has reviewed and approved FeelingBetterNow(R) as a practice management tool available to assist family physicians in patient care. The Ontario Medical Association approved the program for its members' personal use."
Assunta Krehl

Federal Commission's support for pay-as-you-drive to renew aging infrastructure poses..... - 0 views

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Skymeter ICT wireless communications

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  • U.S. commission report released today underscores the need for a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system akin to one refined and tested worldwide by upstart tech firm Skymeter Corp.
  • Skymeter as its technical solution partner of choice for 'Smart Transportation Pricing' technology in the city of Seoul under the Connected Urban Development program.
  • Skymeter solution solves severe GPS signal problems among numerous intersecting and parallel side-roads and offers a high degree of billing accuracy, critical to system acceptance. Skymeter is currently being tested in San Francisco against what are considered to be the best GPS receivers in North America. The results of these tests to date mirror successful European and Asian trials of Skymeter's system.
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  • "The Commission has hit the bull's eye with its recommendations", says Skymeter CEO Kamal Hassan. "Recognizing and recommending sensible policy using reliable and cost-effective technology addresses the three evils plaguing surface transportation: under-funding, CO(2) emissions, and traffic jams." Hassan says that by opting for a sensibly-designed GPS-driven user fee system America's total CO(2) emissions will be reduced by 5% or 350 million metric tonnes, the same reduction as if one out of every four cars on the road were replaced by electric cars. It will also make the average commute around 10% faster. "Those are pretty good side effects for a system that returns the nation's road financing system to health" says Hassan.
  • Skymeter Corporation is a Toronto, Canada-based data services operator that enables location-based payments using financial-grade GPS telematics. Its billing-delivery services include Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) metering for road use, parking and PAYD insurance. These services incorporate methodologies for both privacy and anonymity to ensure motorists enjoy complete privacy while traveling and absolute confidentiality of their trips. Skymeter is equivalent to an anonymous, in-car cell-phone that automatically pays for all transport services based on actual usage. Skymeter enables every form of road-use charging from small city areas such as London and Stockholm's cordon charges up to metering every vehicle in a state, province or country in order to replace fuel taxes.
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    U.S. commission report released states that there is a need\nfor a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system that is similar to Skymeter Corp which is an upstart tech firm and a MaRS Tenant. Skymeter technicial solution solves the severe GPS signal problems as is currently being tested in North America. Feb 26, 2009
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Aug 09
     
    U.S. commission report released states that there is a need for a nationwide pay-as-you-drive system - a system that is similar to Skymeter Corp which is an upstart tech firm and a MaRS Tenant. Skymeter technicial solution solves the severe GPS signal problems as is currently being tested in North America.
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