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Celtx Preparing Enterprise Product

  • Apr 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Since moving to the cloud a month ago, Celtx has released 14 new products and now the company is gearing up for a couple of more launches – big launches.

St. John's-based Celtx is one of the world’s leading makers of pre-production software for

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Startup Kitchen’s Tech Podcasts

  • Apr 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

 Even though he co-founded Startup Kitchen to discuss technology, Suhaim Abdussamad’s favourite podcast is the interview with the operator of a gourmet food truck.

On New Year’s Day, the Fredericton-based video-blogging site broadcast an

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SimplyCast’s New Chinese Version

  • Apr 07, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

 We in the media missed a little item this week, but it merits a bit, maybe quite a bit, of attention: SimplyCast has launched a Chinese version.

The Dartmouth-based company is already a global leader in multi-channel marketing and CEO Saeed

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Karma Nears 2nd Round; Eyes 3rd

  • Apr 05, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup out to marry regulated lotteries with video games, is on the verge of closing a $750,000 second round of funding and hopes to bring in a third round by September.

Chief Executive Paul Leblanc and Chief

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McKenzie Accelerator Angels’ Den

  • Apr 04, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The results of one of New Brunswick’s ambitious accelerator programs will be on display next Wednesday in Moncton as five companies from the McKenzie Accelerator pitch at an Angels’ Den.

Last autumn, two new accelerator programs began in New

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Startup Canada Tours the Region

  • Apr 03, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Victoria Lennox’s voice was muffled as she spoke into her cellphone, but the message she was delivering came through loud and clear. After holding a week of town hall meetings with entrepreneurs across Nova Scotia, entrepreneurs and small-business

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Making NS an Intelligent Community

  • Mar 27, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

It would be wonderful if Nova Scotia were designated an “intelligent community” next year. The fact that the province is beginning the process of seeking the designation should result in economic paybacks, say the campaign’s organizers.

 Digital

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The Birth of a Buyout Fund

  • Mar 26, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The establishment of a buyout fund in Halifax is a nice addition to the growing number of investment groups in the region, and could help with one problem facing the Atlantic Canada – succession in prosperous businesses.

SeaFort Capital Inc.

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Breviro, Soricimed win NBIF’s R3

  • Mar 25, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Breviro Caviar Inc. and Soricimed BioPharma Inc. are sharing the top award in the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation R3 Gala’s Innovation Challenge.

The winners will each receive $50,000 worth of research and development services at a New

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Med-Tech Firm Impetus Launches

  • Mar 21, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax engineers Tim Burke and Bill Power have formed a new medical technology company in Halifax that is starting not with a grand idea but a new method of developing innovation.

Impetus Innovations doesn’t know yet what its first product will

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CyberPsyc Funding Aids 2 Products

  • Mar 19, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

When Darren Piercey was developing his online software he had little trouble finding relevant subjects to test it: people afraid of spiders. The University of New Brunswick (UNB) psychology professor identified 300 undergraduates with varying

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Aided by Acoa, Wooshii Enters NS

  • Mar 15, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

I was delighted this week to work with Fergus Dyer-Smith and Paul Ryan of Wooshii as they launched the online video crowdsourcing company’s new North American Headquarters and Global Development Centre in Halifax.

Wooshii is a marketplace for

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