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GM Partners with Communitech

  • Nov 11, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

GM Canada announced on Tuesday that it has formed an innovation research outpost at Communitech among other research initiatives in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

In a speech at the Canadian Club in Toronto, GM Canada president and managing

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The White Cross, By H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 11, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

 

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid

But

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Rev Names 4 Startups to Cohort 2

  • Nov 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Communitech has named four startups to the second cohort of its Rev accelerator, which is designed to help companies with traction accelerate revenue growth.

The Kitchener-based startup hub earlier this year launched the six-month accelerator to

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Planet Hatch, Sally Ng Part Ways

  • Nov 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it charts a new course, Frederiction business incubator Planet Hatch has parted ways with Sally Ng, who has been its executive director since it opened more than two years ago.

Ignite Fredericton Chief Executive Officer Larry Shaw confirmed

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OneNS Report Focuses on Tech

  • Nov 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Days after leaving his job with Salesforce.com, Jevon MacDonald wanted to discuss the prominent place the tech community holds in the recently released One Nova Scotia Coalition report rather than his own plans.

MacDonald is best known as the

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Chalk Reaches 120,000 Teachers

  • Nov 09, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Chalk.com began when William Zhou decided he wanted to do something to help his former teachers. And three or four years later, about 120,000 other teachers are using the product he created.

Zhou, 23, is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Kitchener

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VidSnippets Prepares for 30-Day Trial

  • Nov 09, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

VidSnippets, a video searching and editing tool, is gathering names of individuals and organizations interested in participating in a free 30-day trial. The company will select the participants in the trials, which will begin later this month and

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Incubating a Network of Incubators

  • Nov 09, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

At the Entrevestor Luncheon in Sydney in the spring, it didn’t take long for the 100-plus attendees to zero in on one essential thing missing in the local ecosystem – an incubator.

The event, which was sponsored by BDO Canada, asked the diners

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Pond-Deshpande Redesigns B4 Change

  • Nov 06, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A thorough redesign of the B4 Change program at the University of New Brunswick will assist social entrepreneurs by working with regional partners to deliver more tailored and individualized programming.

A social entrepreneur is someone who

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Health QR Celebrates Launch

  • Nov 06, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Health QR, the Halifax startup whose mobile app helps patients improve success with their medical prescriptions, launched its product in a reception at the Volta startup house last night.

As well as launching the product, the two-year-old

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Immunio Grows After Product Launch

  • Nov 05, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Backed by $2.7 million in venture capital funding, Immunio is rapidly gaining clients for its software that battles breaches of company data.

The Montreal- and Dartmouth-based company aims for ease of use in its product that allows companies to

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Waterloo MP Gets Small Business File

  • Nov 05, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Kitchener-Waterloo has a representative at the federal cabinet table, and it seems appropriate that the rookie minister’s portfolio is small business.

Bardish Chagger, who won the Waterloo seat in the Oct. 19 election, was named the Minister for

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