Total Telecom writes on Toronto's emergence as a global hotbed of mobile application development. Toronto is home to over 200 mobile-apps companies making the city "one of the world's biggest clusters of mobile-application [development] this side of Silicon Valley."
"Proximity to several schools with world class computer-science and design programs, such as the University of Waterloo and the Ontario College of Art & Design, is one reason for Toronto's emergence as a mobile-apps hub. Availability of public and private-sector funding is another, as is access to entrepreneurs and engineers who cut their teeth working at or with Blackberry maker Research In Motion Ltd.(RIMM), whose headquarters are just one hour west of Toronto in Waterloo, Ont."
"When RIM is in your community and you get a chance to work with them at an early stage in your career, it opens up a world of possibility in terms of understanding what you can do with smartphones," said Marlon Rodrigues, a University of Waterloo alumnus who worked at RIM on a student-placement program before co-founding Polar."
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