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Finizi Corp, a MaRS Client, provides a free online platform where financial institutions are able to bid for the business of customers in live and fully-transparent auctions. Finizi is conveniently located in Ryerson University's Digital Media Zone. Since Finizi's launch they have generated over 100 registered users, generating $7 million of pending and completed sales within three days.

Finizi Corp, a MaRS Client, provides a free online platform where financial institutions are able to bid for the business of customers in live and fully-transparent auctions. As stated in Investment Executive, Finizi..." is rolling out an online system that effectively replaces the GIC broker as the preferred channel-of-choice for acquiring the fixed term instrument at lower cost. "

Winston is a Toronto company that is pitching a different way to operate the way people call for a taxi and limo through an app. The company Winston is working with MaRS Discovery District Advisors.

"Getting Bought by Google: Or another technology heavyweight" is a discussion about what it takes to be picked up or noticed by the big dogs and was held at the MaRS Centre.

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.

 Phybridge Inc. today announced that it has been issued US Patent No: 8,059,631 for Location System and Method for Assisting Emergency Services in Identifying the Physical Location of an IP Telephony User.  This innovation will be the most robust, easiest to install and manage location identification solution in the market and will most effectively address the challenges associated with VoIP E911 location identification and asset tracking.

Dr. Geordie Rose, Founder and CTO, D-Wave Systems Inc.  been awarded the inaugural CIX (Canadian Innovation Exchange) innovator of the year award. Dr. Rose will receive the award at the CIX event that will be held at the MaRS Discovery District.

Last summer, Toronto-based MaRS, a not-for-profit innovation centre, launched its "Angel" program with the help of Canaccord Genuity. A year later, there have been five Angel events and about half of the program's 15 members have received some form of funding.

In a lively event at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, media pros waxed on the changing media landscape and what it means to those who make and distribute content.

Barrie-based IT company gShift Labs qualifies for Investment Accelerator Funding.

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.

Canadian Patents and Copyrights

The mission of the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) is to accelerate Canada's economic development by: * Fostering the use of intellectual property systems and the exploitation of intellectual property information; * Encouraging invention, innovation, and creativity in Canada; * Administering Canada's intellectual property systems (patents, trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs, and integrated circuit topographies); and * Promoting Canada's international intellectual property interests. The web site includes comprehensive databases for trade-marks, copyrights, industrial designs, etc. It also has information that is useful for first time inventors, including a section for learning about IP, and a range of publications such as guides to trade-marks, copyrights, and patents.

Great Industry Canada source for Innovation, Research, and Science and Technology commercialization. Links to Information Resources, Diagnostic Tools, Industry Associations, Financing, laws, and other services are provided.

The Small Business and Tourism Branch has produced, in collaboration with professors Eileen Fischer (York University) and Rebecca Reuber (University of Toronto), a report that provides a portrait of the state of entrepreneurship in Canada. It charts entrepreneurial activity in Canada over time and compares it with leading countries. Entrepreneurial performance indicators observed include: birth and death rates, survival rates, high-growth firms and gazelles, and research and development expenditures. Furthermore, the report provides a profile of the owners of Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because important entrepreneurial activity takes place within these firms. Finally, the report identifies areas of strength, areas for improvement, and important areas that cannot currently be addressed.

The Small Business and Tourism Branch has produced, in collaboration with professors Eileen Fischer (York University) and Rebecca Reuber (University of Toronto), a report that provides a portrait of the state of entrepreneurship in Canada. It charts entrepreneurial activity in Canada over time and compares it with leading countries. Entrepreneurial performance indicators observed include: birth and death rates, survival rates, high-growth firms and gazelles, and research and development expenditures. Furthermore, the report provides a profile of the owners of Canadian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) because important entrepreneurial activity takes place within these firms. Finally, the report identifies areas of strength, areas for improvement, and important areas that cannot currently be addressed.

GrowthWorks Capital Ltd announced on Sept 15th, 2011 that they will be the lead investor for gShift Labs. gShift Labs is a MaRS Client.

Industry Canada presents Canadian Industry Statistics to help Canadian small and medium businesses understand their industries and make better business decisions.\nIndustry data, gross domestic product and labor productivity are analyzed within various sectors as defined by NAICS, 2002.Employment, wage, production, costs, performance, and capital investment information is also given per each industry.