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Press Release: Oris4-Box Deal

  • Jun 30, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Oris4, which has developed a cloud-based document-organization system,  has issued the following press release:

Oris4 Integrates with Box to Simplify File Migration and Discoverability

Palo Alto, Calif. — June 30, 2014 — Oris4

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Ryan’s New Take on Maternity Wear

  • Jun 27, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Like most women, Danielle Ryan struggled to look stylish when she was pregnant with her daughter, Penny-Laine.

Her clothes strained at the waist and it was hard to feel comfortable. The lifelong fashion lover decided women needed clothes that

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Stewart: Lessons in Civic Open Data

  • Jun 27, 2014
  • James Stewart

I like to think of myself as a pretty creative person. This past weekend, however, I got to meet a whole lot of creative people – many much more creative than me. 

I was privileged to experience firsthand what happens when you put a bunch of

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SimplyCast Aim: Double Sales Monthly

  • Jun 26, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As he prepares for a lengthy sojourn in Silicon Valley, Saeed El-Darahali laid out a lofty goal for his Dartmouth company, the multi-channel marketing startup SimplyCast.

He wants it to at least double its revenues monthly.

That’s right.

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Revolution in Newfoundland Funding

  • Jun 25, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

There’s a quiet revolution taking place in seed funding in Newfoundland and Labrador.

When Newfoundland and Labrador Finance Minister Charlene Johnson unveiled in her spring budget that the province would participate in two venture capital

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Resson Unveils Deal with McCain

  • Jun 24, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Resson Aerospace, a Fredericton company that uses aerial imaging to improve farm productivity, has signed a multi-year memorandum of understanding with Canada’s largest food producer aimed at improving potato production.

The company unveiled its

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Press Release: Oris4’s New Features

  • Jun 24, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax-based Oris4, which has developed a cloud-based document-organization system,  has issued the following press release:

Oris4 to unveil latest integration at Salesforce.com event in Toronto

Oris4 will participate in salesforce.com’s

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Populus Inks Major Deal in Barbados

  • Jun 23, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Health information company Populus Global Solutions has won an international bid to supply the Government of Barbados with a fully-integrated national electronic health information system – its fourth major contract in the Caribbean-Central

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Propel, BioAlliance Win CAIP Funding

  • Jun 20, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

PropelICT and the P.E.I. BioAlliance have been awarded five years of funding under the National Research Council’s Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program, or CAIP, which will allow them to expand their programing.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper

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Teaching Youth Art, Entrepreneurship

  • Jun 20, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

A strong smell of pizza, along with words like “futurepreneur” and “artpreneur” drift in the air as the first cohort of ArtPreneur 2.0 meet at the Halifax offices of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development, or CEED. This is the

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AVF, Launch36 Prove Our Progress

  • Jun 19, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

To assess the superb quality of the companies on display in Halifax this week, we should start with Charlottetown drug discovery company Neurodyn, which captured the best growth stage company at the Atlantic Venture Forum.

It’s difficult to

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Car Service Uber Comes to Halifax

  • Jun 19, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Uber, a car-for-hire service that’s created controversy across the continent, has come to Halifax.

The San Francisco company announced Wednesday that it has launched its service in Halifax, so a fleet of drivers can now use its app to

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