Sara Burns Fund Raises $136K

The Sara Burns Police Memorial Fund has raised $136,000 during a one-month donation-matching campaign supported by Fredericton IT and cybersecurity company, Bulletproof

All of the funds raised by the campaign will go to helping people in need in New Brunswick.

“We were really inspired to be a part of this effort to make a lasting impact on the community with a fund like this,” said

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Talem Health Eyes Paid Pilots in 2019

After two years of bootstrapping, Talem Health Analytics of Sydney is eyeing a paid pilot project early in the new year that would bring in revenue and hopefully pave the way to investment.

Founded two years ago by physiotherapists Paul Travis and Matthew Kay, Talem has developed software that can help auto insurers understand the time and costs of an individual recovering from a car accident.

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Atlantic Canada SMEs poor adopters of digital technologies

Small business in Canada has a problem with adopting digital technologies, and one of the worst offenders is Atlantic Canada.

That is the finding of a new report by the Business Development Bank of Canada that assesses the digital maturity of small and medium-sized businesses in this country. It found that 15 percent of SMEs in Atlantic Canada could be considered digitally mature. That ranks

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Patron Plans Marcato Expansion After Buying Sydney Company

Marcato Digital Solutions, the Sydney company that provides administrative software for music festivals, has been acquired by Pittsburgh-based Patron Technology for an undisclosed sum.

Patron, which announced the acquisition in a press release Monday, provides customer-facing software such as ticketing, marketing and fan engagement, to entertainment clients and others. The company will offer a

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Blank, Gresta Among Speakers at TME Event

A range of international speakers will converge on Fredericton this weekend for the Future of Innovation Conference, hosted by the University of New Brunswick’s TME program.

The conference at the Delta Fredericton Hotel on Friday and Saturday will feature such headline speakers as Afghan champion of female education Sakena Yacoobi and the father of the lean canvas, Steve Blank.

The conference

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Job of the Week: R&D at Protocase

Our Job of the Week today is an opening for Research Funding Program Manager at Sydney-based Protocase.

Established in 2001, Protocase makes custom electronic enclosures. It focuses on combining advances in software with advanced manufacturing techniques to offer unique custom manufacturing to the engineering, design, and research industries.  The company has more than 175 employees and 12,000

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The Future of Blockchain

Blockchain technology has a reputation for being difficult to understand. It’s a relatively new technology that takes on different meanings depending on who you ask. Recently, the folks at the David Aplin Group in Halifax, organized a panel discussion to help the region’s business and innovation community better understand this new industry.

The recent Breakthroughs in Blockchain event in

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Ocean Startups Beginning To Surface

A key development in the Atlantic Canadian startup community in the past year is that we’re finally noticing ocean-related startups cropping up in a meaningful way.

Not long ago, much of the ocean innovation came from large Atlantic Canadian companies, service companies, or divisions of overseas multinationals. But OceanTech startups – meaning independent companies developing innovative products

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