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New App Aids Carers of People with Dementia

  • Jul 30, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based DGI Clinical has launched a new app, SymptomGuide Dementia, that allows caregivers to track and manage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.

The app allows caregivers to learn about dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, and provides

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Appili Considers Stock Market Listing

  • Jul 30, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Buoyed by positive results in recent clinical trials, Appili Therapeutics is considering a listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Halifax-based drug discovery company has been conducting clinical trials on its first drug candidate, ATI-1501,

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Jobs: WoodsCamp Shows Exit’s Upside

  • Jul 29, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

We've written often of the economic gains that take place when companies exit, and Lunenburg-based WoodsCamp Technologies is making the case for us with its job postings. 

We had no new job postings on the Entrevestor Job Board in the past week, so

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Simpson New CEO of TechImpact

  • Jul 29, 2018
  • Mark Leger, Huddle

Cathy Simpson, T4G’s current vice-president of people and culture, has been reading Hit Refresh, a new book by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The book is about transformation – both Nadella’s own personal transformation and transformation inside

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NeoThermal wins Volta WTWT Pitch

  • Jul 26, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

NeoThermal Energy from Halifax won a $500 Visa gift card at Volta Labs’ Women Taking Over the World with Tech pitching competition on Tuesday. The event saw five early-stage female-led tech companies present at the Volta offices on Barrington

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Networking is Vital to Female Professionals

  • Jul 26, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Female-focused competitions, programs and funding opportunities are fantastic and necessary ways to encourage women to join tech and business fields. But sometimes all it takes is a quick email blast and a few bottles of wine to get the ball

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UNB Student Aids African Farmers

  • Jul 26, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa commonly lose 60 per cent of their crop before it gets to market, and that number is way too high for Damilare Odumosu.

The Nigeria native has been a student for the past year in the Masters of Technology, Management

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Volta, McInnes Cooper Form Partnership

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Volta Labs, one of Canada’s largest innovation hubs, and national law firm McInnes Cooper have announced a corporate partnership.

McInnes Cooper will join Volta in its new 60,000 sq. ft. space with a permanent satellite office, making

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ACOA, NBIF Give $5.5M to UNB Centre

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation are providing a total of $5.5 million in funding to the Marine Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence at the University of New Brunswick.

The two agencies said in

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Densitas Signs with UK Hospital Group

  • Jul 25, 2018
  • Carol Moreira

Halifax-based Densitas, a breast imaging analytics innovator, has signed a partnership with Leeds Teaching Hospitals in the U.K. to bring its breast screening technologies into routine clinical workflow.

The Densitas software provides an automated

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LaunchPad 2018 Demo Day

  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

Participants in LaunchDal’s LaunchPad Accelerator will showcase their ventures at its fifth annual Demo Day on August 7. Participating ventures include an online convenience store and a company that is creating a software for mental health.

The

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Contact Lenses for the Colour Blind

  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Jennifer Lee

You may have seen those tear-jerking YouYube videos in which colourblind people use special glasses to see the world in full colour for the first time. Until now, those heavily tinted glasses are the only market solution that lets colourblind folks

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