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Press Release: Foursum’s New Feature

  • Jun 13, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Want to Play Against the Pros? Foursum Golf Introduces In-App Profiles for the PGA’s Top Players

All-in-one mobile golf app will now let you compare your stats to the pros, including Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and more.

Thursday, June 12th,

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Headspace Sold, Spins off Proposify

  • Jun 12, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

In a deal that impacts at least five Nova Scotian tech companies, New Glasgow businessmen Jim Fitt has bought Halifax web design company Headspace Design, allowing its two co-founders to focus on their new startup Proposify.

Fitt, the founder of

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Report Probes NL Entrepreneurship

  • Jun 12, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

A new report on entrepreneurship in Newfoundland and Labrador reveals the province has a healthy entrepreneurial environment, especially among older entrepreneurs and immigrants.

The findings were released Wednesday in the 2013 Global

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BioVectra Begins $3.8M Expansion

  • Jun 12, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

BioVectra, the Charlottetown drug manufacturer purchased last year by Questcor Pharmaceuticals of Anaheim, Calif., for $100 million, has begun the latest expansion of its facility near the city’s airport.

The drugmaker is demonstrating the

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A Strategy to Get Early Adopters

  • Jun 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Gregg Curwin met potential clients in New England last month, he tried using an early adopter pitch he’d just learned from Gerry Pond at the Entrevestor Dinner in Fredericton.

Curwin is the Founder and CEO of Truleaf Smart Plant Systems, a

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Press Release: Banyan-Pennecon Deal

  • Jun 11, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Banyan Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Toronto and Vancouver, announced it has teamed up with management to buy the concrete division of Pennecon Ltd., a Newfoundland and Labrador construction and engineering company.

The

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NewPace Tech Bought by NewNet

  • Jun 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Bedford-based NewPace Technology Development Inc. has been bought by NewNet Communications Technologies of Arlington Heights, Ill., greatly expanding the sales power of the mobile technology developer.

NewPace, which is headed by founder and CEO

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CoinCity Celebrates Bitcoin in Moncton

  • Jun 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When the organizers of the CoinCity conference on Friday took up a collection for the families of slain RCMP officers, the attendees could contribute in one of two ways – conventional money or Bitcoin.

It was fitting that the organizers of the

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Press Release: Pond-Deshpande

  • Jun 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The Pond-Deshpande Centre at the University of New Brunswick issued the following press release:

Eastern Canada’s First Social Enterprise Accelerator Launches Six New Businesses

(June 6, 2014, Halifax, NS) Eastern Canada’s first Social

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Seeding Growth in the Third World

  • Jun 06, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Philippe Levesque wants his farm-in-a-box to help feed the world’s hungry, but the New Brunswick-based botanist and horticulturist must first raise $10,000 so that he can produce 200 boxes to validate his idea in Canada.

For the last year,

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Press Release: The Rounds’ Partners

  • Jun 06, 2014

Physician Associations and The Rounds Partner Up To Improve Healthcare For All Canadians

The Rounds Announces Partnership With The Society of Rural Physicians of Canada and The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians

NOVA SCOTIA, Canada.,

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Lamda Guard Signs Deal with Airbus

  • Jun 05, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

In a textbook case of a startup landing the perfect early adopter, Halifax-based Lamda Guard announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal with Airbus to jointly develop its technology to protect planes from laser attacks.

The world’s largest

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