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HealthQR Partners With Pfizer

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it begins to beta-test its app that encourages stricter adherence to drug prescriptions, HealthQR is getting a boost from one of the world’s largest drug companies, Pfizer of New York.

HealthQR, which works out of the Volta startup centre in

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NL Focuses on Startup Launches

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Spring is coming slowly to St. John’s, but that hasn’t stopped new startups from spouting up.

It’s now Startup Week in the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, and there is a strong focus on forming and seeding young companies. Company

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NS, NL Entries Battling in BDC Race

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A titanic struggle has been playing out on a federal Crown corporation’s website, and the combatants are a pair of thirtysomething entrepreneurs from Atlantic Canada.

For the past two weeks, the federal development bank BDC has been asking the

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UNB To Launch Masters in TME

  • Jun 16, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

The University of New Brunswick will launch its Masters of Technology Management and Entrepreneurship this autumn, which will feature an immigration component unique in Canada.

Dhirendra Shukla, the chair of the Fredericton university’s

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CSIpix Eyes Bigger Sales Team

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

CSIpix is out to solve a problem familiar to all fans of crime fiction: overworked cops waiting days or weeks for fingerprinting results.

The St. John’s startup has developed software that helps forensic investigators quickly find possible

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Eye on KW: Clearpath’s New Segment

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Clearpath Robotics took only 18 months to reach profitability by targeting mainly the research market. Now, as it continues its growth phase, the company is tackling a new market that poses its own set of challenges – the automated handling of

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DSM Wins BioNova Good News Award

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

BioNova, the association for the Nova Scotia life sciences industry, announced last week that its Good News Story for 2015 has been awarded to DSM Nutritional Products for its decision to invest at least $30 million in new capital to upgrade and

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Interview with CBC Cape Breton

  • Jun 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

I was interviewed last week by Information Morning Cape Breton host Steve Sutherland on what I witnessed on my recent trip to Sydney. We discussed the impact of programs like the UIT course and the Spark Cape Breton compeition. You can hear the

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HotSpot, PACTA, Win AVF Honours

  • Jun 12, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

While presenting his company at the Atlantic Venture Forum on Thursday, Phillip Curley announced that HotSpot Parking Inc. would launch later this month in Columbia, South Carolina, and in a new city once every six weeks after that.

The

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Pilōtalk Explores Audiobook Niche

  • Jun 12, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

After Hurricane Arthur knocked out power in New Brunswick last July, Alex Kall lay sleepless in the dark. He wished he had someone to read to him.

Kall suffered several restless nights. But that time without power gave him the idea for Pilōtalk,

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Press Release: Startup Week in NL

  • Jun 12, 2015

Startup Newfoundland & Labrador has issued the following press release:

15-Plus Speakers and Mentors Set Stage for Startup Week NL – June 12 to 18

ST. JOHN’S, NL – Startup Week is the latest initiative by Startup Newfoundland & Labrador that

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DevCon Set for Fredericton Tomorrow

  • Jun 12, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

For the first time in four years, Maritime DevCon, the conference for computer developers, will take place on Saturday in Fredericton.

Maritime DevCon was started in 2006, but was called DevEast and held in Moncton. It then occurred again in

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