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NB Gives $90K Grant to HotSpot

  • Oct 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

One week after taking office, New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant has announced a $90,000 funding for Fredericton-based HotSpot Parking Inc., a recent graduate of the Launch36 accelerator.

Beyond the facts of the funding and its benefit for an

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Press Release: Honibe Partnership

  • Oct 15, 2014

Island Abbey Foods Ltd. Announced Today A Partnership With Leading French  Pharmaceutical Company Gifrer

Honibe Co-Branding With Gifrer Alma miel Creating France’s First All Natural Honey Lozenges with Vitamin C, Menthol and Eucalyptus

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LiveLenz Lands Funding, New CEO

  • Oct 13, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

With a new management team, product and funding round, Livelenz Inc. of Bedford is looking to expand its sales and marketing efforts and extend its reach into the fast-food and casual restaurant markets.

Jon McGinley, a veteran of such startups

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Holt: Linking Startups & Corporates

  • Oct 10, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

There are many theories about how best to encourage entrepreneurs. Susan Holt, president and CEO of the New Brunswick Business Council, links entrepreneurs with seasoned business people and encourages the veterans to become early adopters of the

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Dodoname Aids Consumer Privacy

  • Oct 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Michael J. Gaffney wants to protect the privacy of consumers around the world when they register on a website, and he wants to do it — at least in part — from Nova Scotia.

An Ottawa resident, Gaffney is a serial entrepreneur who has been

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Digital Bridge Scholarship Launched

  • Oct 09, 2014

Junior Achievement Nova Scotia and Torusoft have put out the following press release:

 HALIFAX, NS (Oct. 8, 2014) – A new educational initiative is launching across the province this month, as the result of a joint partnership between Junior

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Agile Sensor Targets Drone Upgrades

  • Oct 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Having grown out of a research grant from a major defense contractor, Agile Sensor Technologies Inc. is now marketing products that improve the operation of unmanned vehicles that travel in the sky, the sea and on land.

Founded on intellectual

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Crosbie Wins EY Entrepreneur Award

  • Oct 08, 2014

EY, the global accountancy and business consultancy firm, issued the following press release, announcing the winners of the 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year award:

Robert Crosbie of Crosbie Group Limited named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Atlantic

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200 Teachers To Use Agora’s Vizwik

  • Oct 07, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Moncton-based startup Agora Mobile has launched a new method of teaching coding and has already signed up about 200 teachers to use the product.

Agora Mobile is an ambitious company founded by Dalhousie University computer science alum Simon

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How to Follow Passions—Profitably

  • Oct 06, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Entering the austere halls of the J. Herbert Smith Centre for Technology, Management & Entrepreneurship at the University of New Brunswick, with its arched entrance and paneled halls, it’s easy to suppose the school’s summer institute will be a

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Drawing Women to the Gaming Sector

  • Oct 03, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Although women are playing online games in ever greater numbers, female game developers and computer programmers remain rare. That’s something Kirsten Tomilson is working to change as she develops her own digital media company, Fourth Monkey

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Spring Loaded Raises $270K in VC

  • Oct 03, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Having secured a fresh tranche of venture capital financing, Spring Loaded Technology Inc. is looking for a few volunteers to beta-test its revolutionary “bionic” knee brace.

The company said it has just raised $270,000 in equity financing from

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