On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:41 PM, John Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jvj@golden.net">jvj@golden.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 2011-05-20 11:29, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
<blockquote type="cite">On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Kyle Spaans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3lucid@gmail.com" target="_blank">3lucid@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div>> What do people think of this move for Google
to grow in KW? Any ties<br>
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Not quite the answer nuts-and-bolts you are looking for but I talked to
a candidate for alderman (Kit) in the recent municipal election.<br>
He told me that he was "in the loop". And that some of the tech
companies (maybe Google) moved from Wloo to Kit (Tannery et al.)
because of the services and facilities that Kitchener could offer that
Waterloo could not. I am not sure exactly what services and facilities
he was referring to. Railway? Condos? I dunno.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>The Record's tech supplement mentioned that it was mainly because they are<br>expanding and having more staff so needed a bigger facility. Not sure if there were<br>
tax or other deals to augment that.<br><br>By the way ReqWireless was indeed the company that Google bought, but from<br>what I remember, they never launched a product and were bought before they<br>did. So maybe Google wanted the talent only. The fact that there is no Waterloo<br>
specific product supports that view. They stayed quiet for months about the<br>purchase, until it was leaked when an ad appeared specifying Waterloo as the <br>location.<br></div></div>-- <br>Khalid M. Baheyeldin<br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a>, Inc.<br>
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