Last night BC Business hosted their annual Best Companies to Work for in BC event and the high-tech companies that were honored insisted that retaining employees is not their biggest challenge. Finding the right people in the first place is.
The overall winner – for the fourth straight year – was Vancouver's Strangeloop Networks. Led by twin brothers Jonathan and Joshua Bixby, Strangeloop broadly represents B.C.’s enduring high-tech sector. Other tech companies acknowledged on BC Business list include the following:
Vineyard Networks
Vivonet
Tasktop Technologies
Clevest Solutions
Slant Six Games
Global Relay Communications
6S Marketing
The goal of the Techvibes' Job Board is to help businesses like these find the right people. To celebrate the winners, we're offer every business in BC the opportunity to tap into our unique readership for their next hire.
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6S Marketing Inc. is a leading Vancouver Internet marketing company with hundreds of clients, both large and small, across a wide variety of industries. 6S provides Web site promotion services to clients across the United States, Canada and Internationally.
6S Marketing Inc. has proven experience and success in all facets of online marketing including: search engine optimization, cost per click campaign...
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Global Relay Communications Inc. is a privately held, innovative technology services company. Since 1999, Global Relay has provided exceptional outsourced enterprise-class message archiving, compliance and management services worldwide via the Internet. Our solutions include:
Email & IM Archiving
Supervisory controls & monitoring
Secure, centralized offsite storage, backup and management system
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Slant Six Games is a video game development company located in Vancouver's Yaletown district. Founded by a group of industry veterans, the company is currently working with top tier publishers on games for current and next generation game systems.
We promote a fun, focused and hard working environment within which to work and are dedicated to the personal and professional development of our staff. Our employees...
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Vivonet is a Software as a Service Provider (SaaS)… that processes millions of transactions every month for customers in the hospitality and retail sectors across Canada and the United States. Growing at over 100% annually, our mission is to enable, acquire and organize the world’s retail transactions into the world’s most trusted source of retail performance information.
Enable: Vivonet provides on-demand...
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Strangeloop designs, builds, installs, and supports hardware and software solutions that accelerate the performance of websites and web-based applications.
Founded in 2006, Strangeloop’s original product offering was the Strangeloop AS1000, a delivery-focused accelerator for ASP.NET. In 2010, the company launched Site Optimizer, a next-generation solution that offers a powerful set of features that work together...
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Vineyard Networks provides you with the tools to maximize the performance of your applications over your MPLS network. The products and services from Vineyard Networks provides you with the industry's first solution set designed specifically for MPLS Networks:
MPLS Best Practices
MPLS Reporting
MPLS Monitoring
Class of Service (CoS) Management
MPLS and Network Security
With Vineyard Networks you can ensure the...
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Tasktop enables information workers to reclaim their workday by automatically focusing their desktop and web applications on the task at hand. Use of the Tasktop dramatically improves a user's productivity by making it easy to stay organized and to multitask. Tasktop Technologies pioneered the Task-Focused Interface that drives Tasktop as part of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project that it created and leads....
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The Complete Solution for the Utility Mobile Workforce
Clevest provides software for mobile workforce management and smart grid deployment and post-deployment operations exclusively for electric, gas and water utilities. We are specialists at enabling utilities to transform their field operations by rapidly automating and optimizing virtually any field work activity or process to improve response time and...
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Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
When not running Canada's leading technology media property, Rob can...
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