IIoT Is A Huge Opportunity for Canada

It’s incredible to think that Aug. 9 was the 20th anniversary of Netscape’s IPO. That listing symbolized the launch of the internet, and it’s amazing to realize how the online world has invaded and enriched so many facets of our lives in just two decades.

The reason this resonates so strongly with me is I believe the Internet of Things (or machines communicating with one another over the

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Island Abbey: Strong Growth in Exports

Island Abbey Foods, the Charlottetown-based maker of Honibe lozenges, has successfully grown into export markets enough that four-fifths of its sales this years will come from outside the country.

Founder and President John Rowe said recently that the company made three-quarters of its money in Canada in its first five years to 2013. Last year there was a balance between domestic and export

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Ooka Island Launches Mobile App

Charlottetown-based Ooka Island on Wednesday released the mobile application for its game-based reading program.

Kay MacPhee, a literacy researcher, and Jim Barber, a children’s author and teacher, created Ooka Island. Barber wrote 85 levelled eBooks based on MacPhee’s research. They and integrated these books into an online game that is personalized for the child playing to teach him or her 

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Building a Digital Society in NB

Dual movements have begun in New Brunswick and its largest city to improve the quality of life by encouraging people to develop projects with government and private data.

Cathy Simpson, a veteran of the New Brunswick tech community, told a session at the Big Data for Productivity Congress on Tuesday that different levels of government in the province are working with the public to understand

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Sequence Raises $500K from Killick

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, raised an additional $500,000 in equity funding from Killick Capital, bringing the total of its seed round to $1 million.

The company released the news in a statement Tuesday, days after it announced a major initiative with the Newfoundland and Labrador government to apply genetic research to

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Our Latest Report: Trends in B2B

Jordan Kyriakidis doesn’t just think his company, QRA Corp., will benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things. The CEO believes it will benefit from his company.

QRA has developed software that helps large manufacturers detect flaws in products early in the design stage. Kyriakidis said the technology will prove invaluable to the Internet of Things, in which machines communicate with one

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Paul Singh: The Guy with the Jet Fuel

Paul Singh spent half of his childhood in Ashburn, Va., better known as Cashburn, thanks to the AOL headquartering there until 2009. Though Singh did work at AOL—as well as a used car dealership—he gave Ashburn another reason for its nickname: he now invests in high-growth companies.

Singh was previously a partner at 500 Startups, which partners individuals to invest in startups, where he

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I-3 Contest Draws 188 Submissions

Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition has received 188 submissions for its 2015-16 event. Though it was fewer applications than the last time the contest was held, the organizers said they’re pleased with the number – and especially the quality – of the applications.

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia innovation agency, holds the competition every second year with the goal of encouraging

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