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AIW: SafeCell’s B2C Phone Service

  • Sep 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Ever wish you had a temporary local phone number - one that you could use on Kijiji or a dating site and then dispose of? Sandy Walsh has the technology to make it happen.

Walsh is the founder of SafeCell.ca, a new startup based in Halifax, N.S.

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AIW: Mindful Scientific’s Milestones

  • Sep 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Very quietly in the past year or so, Mindful Scientific has been hitting milestones and moving forward with the aim of having a product on the market next year.

The company’s main technology is the Halifax Consciousness Scanner, or HCS, which

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AIW: Weusthem to Fix Tendering

  • Sep 18, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Ashwin Kutty perceives a missing link in the great web of social networks and business tools available today: no one has a solution to navigate the tendering process.

An international consultant based in Halifax, Kutty is now the president and

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Strue to pitch at Invest Atlantic

  • Sep 17, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

You have to admire a tech entrepreneur who has written a book about currency reform and studied sculpture in Chicago. So it’s easy to be impressed by Jordan MacLeod, the CEO of Charlottetown-based Strue Inc. Not only has MacLeod penned New

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350 Capital Invests in CarbonCure

  • Sep 14, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technology on Thursday announced that it has secured an undisclosed equity investment from 350 Capital, a Toronto investment company started by real estate developers  to invest in green building products.
The Halifax cleantech

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Acoa Loans: Thorasys, DeNovaMed

  • Sep 13, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The federal government on Wednesday lent $1 million to two biotech companies that have grown out of Dalhousie University’s research facilities.

Greg Kerr, Member of Parliament for West Nova, announced that the Atlantic Canada Opportunities

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AIW: GoVenture World to Beta-Test

  • Sep 13, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The team from GoVenture World will have five minutes on Sept. 23 to explain a massive project that they have been working on since 2006.

But if Mathew Georghiou and Bill Faulkner can build an online game that could change the face of

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AIW: ContractMe Thinking Regional

  • Sep 13, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Laurie Dolhan is fanatical about “buying local”, and she’s gearing up to take that message regional.

Dolhan is the President of ContractMe.ca, a website devoted to linking up local service providers and small businesses with potential clients,

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AIW: Boondoc to Help Save Lives

  • Sep 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Blair Ryan got the idea for Boondoc, a social network for physicians, when he read of a U.S. doctor unable to extract a reciprocating saw blade from a patient’s hand.

The blade was good and stuck, but rather than give up and amputate the hand,

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LightSail Energy Plans NS Project

  • Sep 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Cleantech integration company LightSail Canada will soon apply to the Atlantic Innovation Fund to help with financing for a $4.6 million pilot facility to store energy produced at a wind farm near New Glasgow, N.S. LightSail Canada is a

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PropelICT Launch36 Seeks Startups

  • Sep 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

In calling for a new round of startups to enter the Launch36 accelerator program, PropelICT Executive Director Trevor MacAusland released a few interesting statistics .

The 10 startups – nine of them from New Brunswick – that graduated from the

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AIW: Progress at Xiplinx, CyberPsyc

  • Sep 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Innovation Week will be something of an old home week for the companies that went through Propel ICT’s Launch36 accelerator. It will also be a chance for them to learn how they’ve progressed since their term ended in June. In fact we’ll

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