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Sentinel: 1st NL Startup in Launch36

  • Sep 23, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Sentinel Alert, a St. John’s start-up that is developing a wearable technology devoted to worker safety, has become the first company from Newfoundland and Labrador accepted into the prestigious Launch36 technology accelerator.

The company has

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ProductCamp Atlantic Set for October

  • Sep 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

 “Product manager” is a difficult position to define let alone master. And to help people do both, ProductCamp is coming to Halifax next month.

ProductCamp is a loosely organized get-together in which product managers, marketing professionals

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Press Release: Neurodyn’s Phase 1A

  • Sep 22, 2014

Neurodyn, the Charlottetown startup working on treatments for neurological diseases,  has issued the following press release:

Positive Phase 1a outcome for Memogain

Neurodyn Life Sciences Inc. announced completion of its first-in-human

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Skerry Takes Charge on EyeRead

  • Sep 19, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Leah Skerry was shocked to learn that one of her friends struggled through high school without being able to read.

Her friend’s experience helped motivate Skerry to develop EyeRead, an affordable eye-tracking software able to assess and aid

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Sally Ng: NB Needs Innovation

  • Sep 19, 2014
  • Sally Ng

[Ahead of the New Brunswick election on Monday, Planet Hatch Executive Director Sally Ng wrote the following column for the CBC. The piece was accompanied by this radio interview with Terry Seguin.]  

If you had asked me five years ago if I

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ScreenScape Simplifies Digital Signage

  • Sep 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

If you’re a Maritime startup launching a new product, it doesn’t hurt to be partnering with one of the world’s largest makers of hardware.

That’s exactly what digital signage specialist ScreenScape Networks of Charlottetown has done as it

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Busiest Week on the Startup Calendar

  • Sep 18, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Ready for the busiest eight days on the Halifax startup calendar?

You better be because five events that speak to the entire community will take place in the Nova Scotia capital between Sept. 22 and 30. It begins with MentorCamp on Monday,

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Can We Reform Equity Tax Credits?

  • Sep 17, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Next Thursday, members of the startup community will have an opportunity to discuss a matter that has been on their minds for years – how to liberalize the patchwork of angel tax credits in the region.

Rob Barbara, Partner at Build Ventures,

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Press Release: New Honibe Lozenges

  • Sep 17, 2014

Island Abbey Foods Launches Two New Honibe – Honey Lozenges Across Canada

Honey Lozenges with Cherry and Honey Lozenges with Immune Boost Now Available at Select Pharmacies and Online at http://www.Honibe.com

Charlottetown, PE, Canada –

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Helping People Order Pizzas Online

  • Sep 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Matt Stewart and Rob Myers should be poster boys for holding down business development costs.

Last year, the two residents of Sydney won $10,000 from the initial Spark Cape Breton competition, which Innovacorp held to encourage startups on the

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ROV3D Launched at Oceans ‘14

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As the Oceans ’14 conference gets under way in St. John’s today, a local startup will debut the 3D underwater visualization system it has been working on for several years.

Whitecap Scientific has developed a product called ROV3D, which creates

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Highlights of Entrevestor-EF Event

  • Sep 15, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The problem of attracting early adopters once again showed itself at the Entrevestor-Entrepreneurs’ Forum luncheon in St. John’s on Thursday, even though it hadn’t been invited.

We had a great turnout and a truly superb meal at the Junior Common

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