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Mansa Capital Joins Accreon MBO

  • Jan 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Accreon, one of the largest tech consultancies in Atlantic Canada, is restructuring its ownership and leadership through a leveraged management buyout involving the Boston-based private equity firm, Mansa Capital.

Fredericton-based Accreon,

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After Pivot, Swapskis Is Now Vendeve

  • Jan 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

To reflect the evolution of its business model, Swapskis is changing its name to Vendeve.

The Halifax startup began last year with the mission of helping women barter their skills with one another, so they could build up resumés and networks and

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Press Release: SageCrowd in Boston

  • Jan 21, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SageCrowd, a Halifax startup that develops online networks for personal improvement authors, has issued the following press release:

SAGECROWD BRINGS ITS LEARNING SCIENCES TO BOSTON’S LEARNLAUNCH EDTECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAMPUS

Halifax,

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2 New Products Driving Current Studios

  • Jan 20, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Current Studios is enjoying its best quarter of business ever largely because of two digital games it’s developed.

One aids children’s health care, and the other ties in with new bedding on the market. If they have one common trait, it’s that

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Diversity, Experience at Breakthru

  • Jan 19, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Here are three adjectives to describe the 2015 cohort of the Breakthru startup competition in New Brunswick: diversified, experienced and keen.

Breakthru, the biennial competition organized by the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, held its

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Qimple Accepted into 500 Startups

  • Jan 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A month after revealing it’s attracted an impressive set of investors, Qimple has been accepted into one of the best-known accelerators in the world.

The Moncton online recruitment company is one of about 30 startups that will attend the coming

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Press Release: SimplyCast CRM

  • Jan 16, 2015

SimplyCast, the Dartmouth-based multi-channel marketing startup, has issued the following press release:

SimplyCast Introduces Free CRM Solution and Sales Pipeline Acceleration Tool

SimplyCast is launching its own powerful customer

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Equals6’s New Mentorship Platform

  • Jan 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

With its core social network for students reaching a critical mass, Equals6 launched a new product this week that helps universities co-ordinate their mentoring networks.

The Halifax startup has just introduced Students2Mentors, a cloud-based

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Deloitte TMT Show Hits NB, NS

  • Jan 15, 2015

Deloitte, the international accountancy and business consultancy, has released its 2015 predictions on technology, media and telecommunications, and launched its Canadian roadshow to showcase them.

Ahead of the tour making two stops in Atlantic

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SONA Eyes Nano Production in 2015

  • Jan 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

By this summer, a new startup based in Sydney hopes to be producing gold nano particles to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue cancers.

SONA Nano Tech recently won $50,000 in Innovacorp’s Spark competition and is using the

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Acadia to Host Data Seminar for SMEs

  • Jan 14, 2015

The Acadia Institute for Data Analytics will host a symposium next Tuesday on the use of data analysis for small and medium-sized businesses.

Cathy Simpson, the Vice-President of Marketing at T4G, will be the keynote speaker at the Productivity

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UIT Starts to Showcase Its Progress

  • Jan 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The UIT program at Cape Breton University reached a milestone Monday when its dozen students were to present their best ideas to the members of the One Nova Scotia Coalition.

UIT is a new technology and entrepreneurship program championed by

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