Gray Wolf Hunts Crypto Crime Ring

The cryptocurrency world’s first public look at the sophisticated hacking operation in its midst, which Fredericton crypto-sleuthing startup Gray Wolf Analytics is playing a key role in investigating, came via a Twitter thread from an anonymous industry account.

The April 18 thread described a successful and widespread effort to hack the digital “wallets” of cryptocurrency owners and steal their

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Swarmio Seeks Creditor Protection

Gaming software company Swarmio Media Holdings,  which has received about $5.7 million in funding from government agencies, has filed for creditor protection.

The IT company, which has had operations in Sydney and Halifax and is listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange, developed a platform that reduces the latencies between data centres, which reduces the time lag of gamers playing one

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Virtual Lunch and Learn set for Thursday

Lunch and Learn, a virtual connector event for women entrepreneurs, will take place on Thursday. Hosted by ONSIDE, a community accelerator program in Nova Scotia, the event aims to help entrepreneurs of underrepresented groups network.

The organizers hope participants can foster meaningful and informative connections with other female entrepreneurs. The speakers at the event include:

  • Nicole
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Spellbook Launches Access Program for Law Schools

St. John’s legal software startup Spellbook is launching a program to make its artificial intelligence system for contract drafting free to law students as the company looks to dramatically scale up its operation and consolidate triple-digit quarterly revenue growth.

Chief executive Scott Stevenson said in an interview that the student access initiative is in response to requests from professors

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Digital NS Seeks Award Nominees

Industry group Digital Nova Scotia is seeking nominations for this year’s Tech Forward Awards, which honour social and business pioneers in the technology sector.

With winners in eight categories, the awards ceremony will be held Nov. 9 at the Halifax Marriot Harbourfront. People can self-nominate, or be nominated by their employers or industry peers. Digital Nova Scotia is particularly looking

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Dal Innovates in Global Finals

Dal Innovates, the multi-tiered innovation program at Dalhousie University, is a global finalist for the Triple E Awards, which recognize the most entrepreneurial universities in the world.

Dal is one of 24 university entrepreneurship programs that will compete in the finals next week in Barcelona. The finalists include two other Canadian universities: McGill and Wilfrid Laurier.

The Triple E

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