Technology

Earlier this month, Loblaw, through its subsidiary Shoppers, announced a $75M minority stake investment in Maple, a Canadian telemedicine company. The acquisition is expected to expand Shoppers’ virtual healthcare services across Canada. [more]

Earlier this month, NVIDIA announced a $40B acquisition of ARM, a U.K. semiconductor company focused on designing CPUs and licensing out IP. SoftBank, a Japanese holding company, acquired ARM for $32B in 2016. [more]

Alberta’s Energy Minister, Sonya Savage, visited E3’s office in Calgary to show the Alberta Government’s commitment to mineral development in the province. E3’s patented technology extracts lithium from oil field brine waters, with planned production starting in 2022. [more]

Last week, Nuvei, a Canadian technology company focused on electronic payment solutions, started trading on the TSX, raising $833 million in the largest tech IPO in TSX history. Two classes of shares were issued, the subordinate voting shares and the multiple voting shares. [more]

eResearch spoke with CEO William Trainer and VP of Corporate Development & Director John LaGourgue about the Company’s upcoming growth initiatives, including the launch of its new electric Vicinity model, and its plans to expand its presence in the U.S. market. [more]

The Company announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Property Information Exchange for £31.0M (C$52.9M), in an all-cash deal. Concurrent with the acquisition, Dye & Durham raised C$50M from a bought-deal financing. [more]

The Company raised $37.2M at $20 per share. Amid the slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, GreenPower maintained production and reported only slightly lower revenue of $2.3M in FQ1/2021 compared with $2.4M in FQ1/2020. [more]

The Water and Wastewater Treatment industry, which includes (1) Treatment Technologies, (2) Delivery Equipment, (3) Treatment Chemicals, and (4) Instrumentation, is growing as both industrial companies and municipalities put a greater focus on ESG initiatives. [more]