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Verisk Buys Halifax’s Analyze Re

  • Oct 24, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Analyze Re, a Halifax company whose software-as-a-service product helps reinsurers assess risk, has exited by selling out to Jersey City, N.J.-based data analytics company Verisk Analytics, Inc. for an undisclosed price.

People familiar with the

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Marcato Launches Latest Product

  • Oct 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

After its business grew by about two-thirds in the last year, Marcato Digital Solutions this month released its most recent new feature, which it calls Maracto Live.

Based in Sydney, Marcato provides organizational software to music festival

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Job of the Week: Smart Energy Event

  • Oct 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Our Job of the Week column this week is showcasing an opportunity for a marketing coordinator with the Smart Energy conference.

Smart Energy is a greater Atlantic region conference for the smart, renewable and conventional energy sectors. Held each

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Eigen Unveils Product at Dell Event

  • Oct 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Eigen innovations Inc., a Fredericton company specializing in the Industrial Internet of Things, or IIot, has unveiled its Eigen Quality Workbench, a software product that optimizes quality control in industrial manufacturing. 

The company, which

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Mimir Launches Product with 2 Clients

  • Oct 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

With a new CEO in place, Sydney-based Mimir Networks has launched its cybersecurity product this year and already has two small internet service providers as customers.

Mimir was founded by cybersecurity veteran Jim DeLeskie, who previously founded

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SimpTek Raises $700K-Plus

  • Oct 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

SimpTek Technologies, a Fredericton maker of energy monitoring software, has raised more than $700,000 in equity funding from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation and several angel investors.

The company said in a statement the funding will help

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Global Players Working with Startups

  • Oct 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Two Atlantic Canadian resource giants on Monday outlined how they’ve been working with small locally owned innovation companies to bring their operations into the 21st century.

J.D. Irving Ltd. (the Irving family’s forestry company) and McCain

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Quotes from the Big Data Congress

  • Oct 19, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Big Data Congress wrapped up on Tuesday, after bringing true thought-leaders on digital society to Saint John. Here are a few notable quotes from some of the speakers at the two-day conference:

On the impact of Big Data on society:

“Society

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Trans-Atlantic Oceans Data Event Set

  • Oct 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

There’s an oceans industry symposium happening next month that’s so huge it’s being held on both sides of the Atlantic.

The German Canadian Concourse, or GCC, series of symposiums will hold its fifth edition on Nov. 17 and will focus on the use of

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Fredericton Firms Eye More Capacity

  • Oct 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Employers in the Fredericton region expect the workforce to grow in the next five years, and therefore want the government to focus on attracting skilled workers and tailoring the education system to future job demands.

Those are the findings of a

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How Data Is Reshaping Society

  • Oct 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

When the Big Data Congress session on health wrapped up at 9:05 Monday night, there were still about 150 to 200 delegates in their seats listening to how data analysis could improve healthcare.

It’s the type of conference this is. The first day of

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Click2Order Expanding in Ontario

  • Oct 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The recent storms in Cape Breton threw an unexpected wrinkle into the life of Matt Stewart. They cancelled a flight to Toronto, where he was heading to sign a deal that would transform his company, Click2Order.

Stewart and his cofounder Rob Myers

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