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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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Cirrus9-Cloud-A Merger to Aid Growth

  • Jun 05, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Cirrus9, a Saint John-based managed cloud and data center operator, has acquired Cloud-A of Halifax, forming an nationally focused IT infrastructure and cloud services provider with operations in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Alberta.

The

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DC2GO’s Year 1 Sales Set to Top $1M

  • Jun 05, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Last Friday was an important day for Andrew Coe and his company, DC2GO, which manufactures portable, customized data centres in Dartmouth. The company signed its first major sales contract.

But as he does every Friday, Coe drove out to the

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Press Release: NBIF Research Chairs

  • Jun 05, 2014

Three Researchers Receive $3.5 Million To Work With Industry

New Brunswick Innovation Research Chairs Announced

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) today established three new applied research chairs valued at $3,525,000 over five

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