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Ritchie Gears Up for Incubator Launch

  • Aug 04, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

With more people, especially millennials, seeking work that is both meaningful and useful to society, Dale Ritchie is launching a Moncton-based accelerator and fund that will boost opportunities for social entrepreneurs.

Ritchie, President of the

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ADM Sold to Vinci Energies

  • Aug 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

ADM Systems Engineering, a Saint John electronics engineering company, has been purchased for an undisclosed price French industrial giant Vinci Energies.

The French company, which has 65,000 employees in 51 counties, issued a statement Thursday

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Squiggle Park Downloads Jump 5600%

  • Aug 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based edtech company Squiggle Park is starting August off the right way, pondering how to build on its app’s 5000-percent-plus jump in downloads in iTunes last month.

The company, whose online games help children to learn to read, received

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Air Realty Helps With Mere Listings

  • Aug 02, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A new Nova Scotia real estate brokerage has launched an online service that allows homeowners to list their homes themselves on the Multi Listing Service.

Air Realty is the brainchild of Joshua Svec, an entrepreneur in Cow Bay.  In founding Air

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TruLeaf Launches Across Maritimes

  • Aug 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, the agtech company planning a chain of indoor farms across the country, announced Monday its locally grown microgreen products are now available in select Atlantic Superstores across the Maritimes.

Appearing under

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We Should Follow Trump’s Lead

  • Aug 01, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Now that I have your attention, let me explain what we mean by the headline.

The Trump Administration (or what’s left of it) has set a target of three per cent annual economic growth each year of his presidency. I doubt he has an ice cube’s hope in

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Innovacorp Invested $5.6M in 2016-17

  • Jul 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp, the venture capital and innovation agency owned by the Nova Scotia government, sank $5.6 million into startups in its 2016-17 fiscal year, continuing at the same pace as the previous three years.

The agency released the numbers last

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Job of the Week: Code + Mortar

  • Jul 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Weeks after its relaunch, Code + Mortar of Halifax is building up its development team and looking for a senior developer.

Code + Mortar headlines the Job of the Week column this week, having been in the news in June when it changed its name from

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SomaDetect Courts Vermont Farmers

  • Jul 28, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

As it begins its pilot project in New Brunswick, SomaDetect has been validating the international demand for its product. The Fredericton AgTech company recently signed letters of intent with three-quarters of the 80 farmers it met with during a

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Nova Box Globalizes Local Products

  • Jul 28, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Each of the ship captains currently in Halifax for the Tall Ships Regatta will take home a box full of Nova Scotia-themed treasures along with their memories. The Nova Boxes are being provided by Nova Box creator Allyson England, who established her

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Dane Creek Adds to Pet Food Venture

  • Jul 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Dane Creek Capital Corp. this week agreed to buy pet-related assets of Dartmouth-based Nature’s Way Canada in its latest step in building up a Nova Scotia-based portfolio of sustainable pet food products.

Dane Creek is a Mississauga, Ont.-based

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Big Data Congress Eyes Oceans, Ag

  • Jul 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The fifth annual Big Data Congress, to be held in Halifax in November, will feature something that none of the previous four have – a focus on specific sectors.

Alternating between Saint John and Halifax, the Congress is an annual celebration of

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