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Innovacorp Backs aioTV with $1M

  • Nov 28, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp, the Nova Scotia government’s innovation agency, will announce tomorrow a $1 million investment in aioTV, a revolutionary platform that allows access to a range of video channels on a handheld device or computer.

Greg Phipps,

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PEI BioAlliance Refines Its Strategy

  • Nov 28, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

When the board of the Prince Edward Island BioAlliance met last month for its first strategy session in three years, it didn’t exactly have to rip up its old plans and start afresh.

No, a better term for the BioAlliance’s task would be “fine

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SimplyCast Version 7 Set For Jan.

  • Nov 24, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, the Halifax-based multi-channel marketing company, is planning to launch its Version 7 product in January, including new features that will make it easier for users to reach their audience.

“It will basically allow us to launch

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LED Roadway Buys Wireless Assets

  • Nov 22, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax’s LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. has bought the intellectual property and other assets of distressed Streetlight Intelligence Inc. of Victoria, B.C., to combine smart wireless technology with its energy-efficient HPS and LED street lighting.

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Sheepdog Beta-Testing Milely App

  • Nov 22, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Sheepdog Inc., an industry leader in the development of Google Apps, began beta-testing its new Milely app for smartphones on Monday, following up on the success of its gTrax time tracking application and the GooGrant application

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Region’s VC Funding Soars in 2011

  • Nov 21, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

 Three months before the year-end figures are in we can all but confirm that Atlantic Canada is enjoying a record-setting year for venture capital investment.

Canada’s Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) and Thomson Reuters

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NB Likely Won’t Lose NRC R&D

  • Nov 17, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

My sources say – and I hope they’re correct – that reports of the pending death of the National Research Council’s Institute of Information Technology facility in Fredericton are greatly exaggerated.

Last week, Warren McKenzie, chairman of the

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Helix Aims to Revolutionize E-books

  • Nov 16, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

When Chris Zimmer looks at most e-books, he sees something tantamount to an electronic photocopy, but he believes they can be so much more.

Zimmer, a career filmmaker, has teamed up with Kirsten Tomilson, CEO of Lunenburg-based game producer

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Advancing Women’s Careers in Tech

  • Nov 14, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

When TitanFile organized DemoCamp Halifax in August, it chose an interesting cause to which it donated the proceeds: Dalhousie University’s Women in Technology Society.

I say interesting because the name is a tad deceptive, especially the word

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ClearRisk Named to CIX Top 20

  • Nov 14, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

 The Canadian Innovation Exchange on Friday named ClearRisk of St. John’s to the 2011 list of Canada’s 20 most innovative technology companies.

Five-year-old ClearRisk Inc. is an SAAS venture that helps mid-level insurance brokers assess risk.

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Headspace Beta-Tests Perfect Pitch

  • Nov 10, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Headspace Design, a Halifax graphic arts consultancy, has soft-launched its new Perfect Pitch application as a beta model.

Perfect Pitch is an online instrument that helps graphic artists perfect their pitches to clients. It allows the artist to

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Larsen Victorious in Dragons’ Den

  • Nov 10, 2011
  • Peter Moreira

Congratulations to my friend Brent Larsen for prying $50,000 from the taut fist of a dragon on Dragons’ Den last night.

Larsen is the President of Bedford-based Steep Hill Solutions, which makes Omega Crunch Flax Products – essentially healthy

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