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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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Taking Steps to Improve Innovation

  • Nov 05, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Calvin Milbury hopes New Brunswick improves its standing the next time the Conference Board of Canada ranks the innovation performance of Canadian provinces. And the President and CEO of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation is taking steps to

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Moncton Teens Build Drain Power

  • Nov 04, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

When John Quimby and Kyle Hoar attended the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge in Moncton to get out of school for the day, they couldn’t have known it would be the birth of a business venture.

The two 15-year-olds presented their science fair

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Suncayr Plans Broader Product Line

  • Nov 04, 2015
  • Rose Behar

Suncayr CEO Rachel Pautler sums it up best when it comes to the obvious appeal of her company’s skin protection product, joking that her team initially wondered, “Why has no one done this before?”

The product—a marker that tests the

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