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Chatelaine profiles MaRS ICT client, Joanna Track, founder of Dealuxe.ca. She talks about how to ask your brother for help and other tips to starting your own business.

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.

EndLoop Studios, Five Mobile Inc. and NuLayer Inc. are three Toronto tech companies at hub of iPad app revolution. According to Krista Jones, MaRS Discovery District ict Practice Lead, says "Toronto is an app hub because we have deep roots in both the creative and design industries, and the technical industries."

Last month Techvibes attended Venture NORTH 2011 in New York along with an impressive list of Canadian companies in life sciences, ICT and cleantech. One of those companies was MaRS client, Skymeter, a company that can track and measure vehicle movement remotely. TechVibes reports on Skymeter.

Can crowdsourcing save the directionally challenged? The Globe features MaRS ICT client, Locationary. Locationary's technology crowd-sources location information and serves it up to other online services, including mobile phone applications based on geo-location.

Canadians want to remain in their homes as they age, and that could mean a motherlode for entrepreneurs. According to Jane Barratt, secretary-general of the Toronto-based International Federation on Ageing, "aging is the largest growing business in the world." Peter Evans, an ICT Advisor for companies at Toronto Based MaRS agrees that the "opportunity is huge."

Wireless upstarts face a daunting task: Finance and build a network of their own, while taking on the big incumbents. Krista Jones, MaRS Lead in ICT, shares her views on the challenges telecom start-ups face.

"I've seen a lot of pivots, but few continue to impress as much as Guardly's shift from a personal safety app aimed at consumers, to a comprehensive security suite designed to be used by educational institutions and other organization-level clients"

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.

Events, groups and learning resources for Toronto technology startups aggregated from MeetUp. (Using Twitter Bootstrap.)

"We need to get the word out that, whether you're male or female, this is an exciting field with limitless opportunities," she says.

Toronto startup and MaRS client Guardly announces that it has entered into a partnership with the California Association of REALTORS (C.A.R.) to provide a smartphone app that helps real estate agents stay safe on the job.

MaRS client Locationary talks about Saturn, its new beta -- a "Federated Data Exchange Platform." -- what the system can do, and how location-based startups can use it.

Ali Ghafour of Viafoura talks with the Globe and Mail experts about how their startup can land a big opportunity on terms it feels comfortable with, or whether they should walk away.

Venngage, a MaRS client, and Toronto-based start-up, helps you create and publish custom infographics, engage your viewers, and track your results. Venngage is the most powerful infographics publishing platform ever for marketers and publishers.

Dale Zak's presentation from Net Change Week on Mobile Volunteerism. It profiles Extraordinaries, Ushahidi, Samasource, VMConnect, Causeworld - social ventures that are helping volunteers do meaningful work by using technology. Dale is a mobile software developer passionate about social change.

Panelist Robert Smith, chief technology consultant at MaRS Discovery District, said IT needs to contribute to the innovation paradigm within the organization.

InGamer Sports, a leading technology provider of real-time, interactive sports and entertainment games for the web and mobile devices is launching the InGamer platform for Game One of the Hockey Finals in partnership with The Hockey News and National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA).

InGamer Sports, a MaRS Client, has developed an innovative technology that takes fantasy-league sports players from "being general managers to being head coaches." According to Nic Sulsky, CEO of InGamer, the company launched "in partnership with The Hockey News and the NHLPA May 27 in time for game one of the Stanley Cup Finals -- does so by allowing gamers to interact with the games in real-time, while they are being played, using their computer or mobile device, and to interact with other gamers at the same time through social media apps."