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NB Outlines Innovation Expenditures
As Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau delivered his innovation budget Thursday, the New Brunswick government said it would spend $160 million over the next four years on innovation and R&D.
Some of the initiatives have been announced
Breakthru Race Tight in Home Stretch
If you see perplexed, agonized people wandering the streets of Fredericton on Thursday, treat them with kindness and sympathy. They may be judges in the 2017 Breakthru Competition.
These poor tortured souls have an unenviable task that must be
Turret Brings Its AI Tech to Germany
FREDERICTON – A New Brunswick startup is launching its technology across the Atlantic this week at a global business event.
Fredericton-based Turret Psychoanalytics, a company that uses big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to create customer
Nautel Turns to Rocket Science
Nautel, the Nova Scotia company that makes radio transmitters, is diversifying into a range of new ventures including rocket propulsion systems that could shorten the time it takes to travel to Mars.
Based in Hackett’s Cove near Peggy’s Cove, the
Innowave Wins Launch Ocean Event
A team called Innowave, which is proposing to use wave-generated energy to recharge automated underwater vehicles, won the $4,000 first place at the Launch Oceans event at Dalhousie University this weekend.
But that wasn’t really the biggest news
Mariner Lands TDC as XVu CLient
Mariner, the Saint John tech conglomerate specializing in online video delivery, has announced its xVu unit has landed TDC Group, Denmark’s largest telecoms operator, as a customer.
Mariner said in a statement last week TDC will deploy Mariner’s
Quber Modernizes Traditional Saving
Quber is a FinTech app that brings fun to an all-too-often overlooked aspect of personal finance – saving money.
When people think of personal finance, they envisage hot stocks, tech plays, hedging or getting the best interest rate. But
Job of the Week: Jameson Group
The focus of the Job of the Week column this week is an opening for a project coordinator at The Jameson Group of Halifax.
The Jameson Group organizes a range of events and projects across the region, such as Invest Atlantic, the Smart Energy event
Covina Focuses on $1M Round, CTA
What’s striking about interviewing Caitlin Pierlot today is just how much she has grown as an entrepreneur in 18 months.
Pierlot is the co-founder and CEO of Covina Biomedical, a Halifax company that is developing a non-toxic bone cement to help
Local Experts To Speak at Amplify
The organizers of Amplify, a one-day mentoring event on growth marketing, have quietly added some tremendous speakers from Atlantic Canada to show local expertise in gaining clients through social media.
Held in Halifax on March 28, Amplify is a
Axem Logs 3 Gains in 1 Weekend
Though most early-stage tech companies are obsessed with landing equity investment, Christopher Friesen and Tony Ingram have just had the type of week that lessens the pressure to raise capital.
On Saturday, the co-founders of Halifax-based startup
Waterloo’s Landmine Boys Win CBMC
The Landmine Boys, a group of University of Waterloo students dedicated to the safe removal of landmines, have won the fifth annual Canada’s Business Model Competition.
The competition, which rewards university teams that have researched their
