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UHWK Launches Kickstarter Campaign

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

UHWK, the maker of a lightweight video camera that athletes can wear during their games, launched a Kickstarter campaign for its initial project this week and has already raised more than half its target.

Founded by hockey players Shea Kewin and

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The Meaning of SimplyCast’s 3Q Results

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth multi-channel marketing company, released a statement on its third-quarter results this week, basically showing that its business doubled from the summer of 2014 to the summer of 2015.

But the fact that the company has

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IIoT Is A Huge Opportunity for Canada

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Scott MacDonald

It’s incredible to think that Aug. 9 was the 20th anniversary of Netscape’s IPO. That listing symbolized the launch of the internet, and it’s amazing to realize how the online world has invaded and enriched so many facets of our lives in just two

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Island Abbey: Strong Growth in Exports

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Island Abbey Foods, the Charlottetown-based maker of Honibe lozenges, has successfully grown into export markets enough that four-fifths of its sales this years will come from outside the country.

Founder and President John Rowe said recently

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Ooka Island Launches Mobile App

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Charlottetown-based Ooka Island on Wednesday released the mobile application for its game-based reading program.

Kay MacPhee, a literacy researcher, and Jim Barber, a children’s author and teacher, created Ooka Island. Barber wrote 85 levelled

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Kurzweil on the End of Life Expectancy

  • Oct 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Famed futurist Ray Kurzweil detailed the effects of his law of accelerated returns for a Halifax audience on Tuesday, showing how the exponential gains in technological capacity will change our lives sooner than we might think.

As the keynote

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BitHound Aims to Close Round in 2015

  • Oct 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Now that it has attracted thousands of users and is growing rapidly,  bitHound aims to soon close a funding round to continue this growth.

Operating out of a heritage house in downtown Kitchener, bitHound is a two-year-old company that helps

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Building a Digital Society in NB

  • Oct 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Dual movements have begun in New Brunswick and its largest city to improve the quality of life by encouraging people to develop projects with government and private data.

Cathy Simpson, a veteran of the New Brunswick tech community, told a

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Sequence Raises $500K from Killick

  • Oct 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, raised an additional $500,000 in equity funding from Killick Capital, bringing the total of its seed round to $1 million.

The company released the news

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Tidal Project Gets $10.5M in PE Funds

  • Oct 21, 2015

Black Rock Tidal Power, a subsidiary of German energy company Schottel Hydro,  has raised $15 million in equity and debt to install its first tidal power platform in the Bay of Fundy off Parrsboro, N.S.

The company said in a press release it has

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Our Latest Report: Trends in B2B

  • Oct 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Jordan Kyriakidis doesn’t just think his company, QRA Corp., will benefit from the Industrial Internet of Things. The CEO believes it will benefit from his company.

QRA has developed software that helps large manufacturers detect flaws in

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Ansik Lands Partners After Techstars

  • Oct 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Yashin Shah and Shiva Bhardwaj want to bring the predictive capabilities of airplane systems to your car, and they’ve been working with the Techstars accelerator in Detroit to fulfil that dream.

Shah and Bhardwaj are the co-founders of Ansik, a

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