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Engage 2015 Set for Nov 9 & 10

  • Sep 27, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

The Engage 2015 Conference, which will focus on global innovation, will take place on Nov. 9 and 10 at St. Mary’s University in Halifax.

The first Engage Conference in 2013 focused on exporting outside of the Maritimes and Canada, and the 2014

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Global Ad Source Adds Insights

  • Sep 27, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Global Ad Source, the St. John’s-based advertising database with over 30 million ads, has added a new insight-based feature to its services.

Formerly called Adfinitum, Global Ad Source originally offered a database of global advertising when it

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DHX’s Donovan Banked on Talent

  • Sep 27, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Michael Donovan speaks softly. After a day of enthusiastic speeches from entrepreneurs and vigorous networking sessions at the Startup Empire conference last week, you don’t expect to hear a soft tone.

The DHX Media chairman even has a

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Springboard Hosting IP, Data Events

  • Sep 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Springboard Atlantic, the association that promotes the commercialization of Atlantic Canadian university research, will hold events in the coming weeks in conjunction with Invest Atlantic and the Big Data for Productivity Congress.

The

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Startup Empire Highlights Scaling

  • Sep 25, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Gathered in Halifax’s Park Lane Theatre, the Startup Empire attendees watched the screen. A movie wasn’t playing, but the conference’s presenting entrepreneurs explained their business strategies in a way that mirrors the movie-viewing experience:

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TrafficSoda: Beyond SEO

  • Sep 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A beautiful website can sometimes sadden Jessica Chalk, especially if too few people visit it.

Chalk is the CEO of Waterloo-based TrafficSoda, which helps businesses drive traffic to their sites through a proprietary text analytics tool.

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Apparel Inspired by Mi’Kmaq Tradition

  • Sep 24, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

After realizing that most aboriginal clothing lines originate on the west coast, Patricia Barlow-Arcaro has launched EarthWalk Apparel to celebrate east coast Mi’kmaq culture.

Based in the designer’s Fredericton home, the EarthWalk Apparel line

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Ongozah Landing Clients after Pivot

  • Sep 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

With a new focus to its business, Moncton-based startup Ongozah is providing a link between charities and corporations, and producing 25 per cent monthly sales growth.

The company — whose name is the Swahili term for everyone moving in the same

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Startup Grind to Host Paul Singh

  • Sep 24, 2015

Startup Grind Halifax has announced its next event, which will feature the always entertaining and insightful Paul Singh as speaker, will be held Oct. 15.

Singh has served in senior capacities in such American funding and mentoring organizations

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Invest Atlantic Announces Pitchers

  • Sep 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Invest Atlantic has announced 22 companies that will pitch in its three-tiered pitching event next Tuesday.

The conference, which will take place September 29 and 30 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, will feature some of the

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Build Pitchers Highlight Sales

  • Sep 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Though the Build Program companies pitching at the Propel ICT Demo Day all noted they were raising capital, they placed a greater emphasis on the revenue they’re gaining from bona fide customers.

The Build Program is the mentoring course for the

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Launch Pitches Wow Sean Wise

  • Sep 23, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Sean Wise was so impressed with the Launch Program pitches at the Propel ICT Demo Day on Tuesday that he wondered why he was there.

Appearing after the seed-stage companies delivered their presentations, the professor of entrepreneurship at

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