Google in Waterloo revisited

Reqwireless, a Waterloo-based developer of mobile wireless applications, was acquired last summer by a company that very much wanted to remain anonymous. One of Reqwireless' principals, Joanne McKinley, is speaking at the CUTC conference next week as a representative of Google, where she is a software engineer. According to her bio, she still lives in Waterloo.

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