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Ella Poised to Expand Into Toronto

  • Jan 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Having been accepted into Toronto’s Fashion Zone in the autumn, Ella of Saint John is planning to launch its online marketplace for used clothes in Canada’s largest city in the spring.

Ella is a mobile app on which women can sell or buy slightly

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Evolution Seeking St. John’s Startups

  • Jan 21, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Early-stage entrepreneurs with an idea for a product, company or service are asked to apply for the winter 2016 Evolution program at the Genesis Centre at Memorial University in St. John’s.

The Evolution program is an eight-week intensive workshop

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Maluuba Raises $9M Series A

  • Jan 21, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Waterloo-based machine-learning company Maluuba said Wednesday it has closed a $9 million Series A funding round.

The company, whose technology helps machines to think, reason and communicate with human-like intelligence, said the venture capital

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Global Game Jam Set for Volta

  • Jan 20, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Volta Labs in Halifax next weekend will be the Nova Scotian base for the Global Game Jam, or GGJ, a worldwide weekend event that unites creative minds to develop games.

The 48-hour event will give participants a chance to develop video games, or

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Four Hotspots in Ottawa’s Tech Policy

  • Jan 19, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The symbolism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to southern Ontario last week was tremendously important for his government because it gave important signals about its industrial strategy.

Trudeau toured the Toronto-Waterloo innovation

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OnPoint Brings NFL Data to the Fans

  • Jan 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Elisha Ferrara is a Canadian entrepreneur who wants NFL fans to have the same data on their cell phone that the sports announcers have in their broadcast booth.

For free.

Ferrara is the CEO of Kitchener, Ontario-based OnPoint Sports, whose mobile

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Venn Partners with YEC in Moncton

  • Jan 18, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

Venn Innovation Inc. and Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge have entered a multi-year partnership to provide more opportunities for New Brunswick’s future entrepreneurs.

Under the partnership announced this month, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge

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Jobs of the Week: Fredericton Hiring

  • Jan 18, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring three positions in Fredericton, with TotalPave and CyberPsyc; and one in Brampton, Ontario with Prism Tradeshow Lighting.

TotalPave is a growth stage startup company that gives municipalities the

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PM Opens Google’s Kitchener Office

  • Jan 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Google opened its new engineering centre in Kitchener on Thursday, tripling the size of its staff and broadening its presence in one of the world’s great centres for technological talent.

The new company was officially opened by Prime Minister

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Foresight Pays Off for Trish Kiley

  • Jan 15, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

For Trish Kiley, president and CEO of digital media company Advanced Publishing, success in business means anticipating trends in publishing and technology.

Forward-thinking is essential because the Saint John, N.B., company helps publishers make

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Covering Two Prime Ministers Trudeau

  • Jan 15, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

This is a tale of two Prime Ministers Trudeau, divided by about 30 kilometres and just over 32 years.

The most recent of these prime ministers, Justin Trudeau, visited Kitchener on Thursday to open the city’s new Google office. Standing in the

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Mobile Ecommerce To Boom in 2016

  • Jan 13, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

This will be the year when we begin to buy stuff on our cell phones.

That is the main forecast from Deloitte Canada in its 2016 predictions for the Technology, Media and Telecom markets. The global consultancy on Wednesday released its annual

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