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Techlink Suspends Operations

  • Jun 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Sydney-based Techlink Entertainment has suspended operations and laid off about 60 employees.

Techlink’s specialty was producing VLT games that accepted prepaid cards rather than cash with the goal of alerting players when they’d spent a certain

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Xiplinx Goes Home to Move Forward

  • Jun 01, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Things are going so swimmingly at Xiplinx Technologies that CEO Brent MacDonald is going back to where he was three years ago – in the PropelICT accelerator.

Xiplinx, the Saint John company that helps manufacturing plant managers monitor data

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Eye on KW: Women’s Bootcamp

  • Jun 01, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Communitech is looking for applications for its second Women Entrepreneurs Bootcamp, or WEB, and has quadrupled the prize pot to entice applicants.

The tech startup hub space in Kitchener-Waterloo will hold the event in the autumn with the aim

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Simpson Wants More Success in NB

  • May 29, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

As the incoming chair of the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Cathy Simpson intends to help more startups achieve the kind of accelerated growth that pushes companies and regions forward.

Simpson also aims to get more women involved in

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Three Events in Sydney Next Week

  • May 29, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

I’m pleased to be the guest speaker at a TecSocial gathering Thursday in Sydney – one of a few events Entrevestor will be attending in Cape Breton late next week.

I’ll be delivering a brief chat on communications for startups at the TecSocial

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Futurpreneur Seeks Young Founders

  • May 29, 2015
  • Scott Moreira

Futurpreneur Canada, a group that supports young entrepreneurs, has launched the fifth annual Spin Master Innovation Fund, a competition for innovative young people.

The national organization is looking for innovative Canadian entrepreneurs

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Press Release: Densitas’ ISO Standard

  • May 29, 2015

Densitas, a Halifax startup developing software that enhances mammography, his issued the following press release:

DENSITAS RECEIVES ISO 13485:2003 CERTIFICATION

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia – May 28, 2015 – Densitas Inc. announced today it has

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McMaster Out to Defeat Android, iOS

  • May 28, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A guy from Cape Breton Island has launched a war with both Google and Apple, and investors like Rupert Murdoch and Twitter have bet $85.4 million that he’ll win.

Kirt McMaster is gaining fame in the tech world as the CEO of Cyanogen Inc., a Palo

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Kinduct Signs Up 7 Sports Teams

  • May 28, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax health-technology company Kinduct Technologies announced Wednesday it has signed five professional sports teams and two NCAA colleges to use the Kinduct Performance product.

The Performance product is an athlete management system that

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Anyone Want To Attend Startupfest?

  • May 28, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Working with other partners throughout the region, Planet Hatch is trying to rustle up a group of founders and other startup lovers to make up an Atlantic Canadian contingent at the International Startup Festival in Montreal in July.

Sally Ng,

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Venture NL Fund’s First Close

  • May 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Venture Newfoundland and Labrador Fund, the new public-private investment body that will provide seed financing in the province, has announced its first close and should make its first investment within three weeks.

Pelorus Venture Capital

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Finding the Soul of Entrepreneurship

  • May 27, 2015
  • Scott Moreira

University of New Brunswick recently launched the second year of its Summer Institute, an accelerator that melds entrepreneurial fire with artistic passion. 

The three-month program differs from other accelerators that focus on sales, market

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