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Helping Employers Use Job Boards

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

A young New Brunswick company is making it easier for employers to extend their reach when looking for new employees.

Moncton-based Qimple has developed an automated process that helps employers to carefully assess where they are posting their

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Press Release: Smart Skin Tech

  • Apr 16, 2014

Smart Skin Technologies, the Fredericton company that has commercialized a pressure-sensitive surface material, issued the following press release last week:

Smart Skin Expands Global Reach with New Executive Vice President for Europe

Brewing

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KIRA Awards Finalists Named

  • Apr 16, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The organizing committee for the KIRA Awards– which recognize excellence in the knowledge industry in New Brunswick – has named its 2014 finalists, which include several members of the startup community.

The winners will be named May 15 at a

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Learning Tech in Halifax Schools

  • Apr 15, 2014
  • Carol Moreira
While countries such as China, Estonia and Britain prioritize teaching computer programming to the very young, most Canadian students do not learn how to code until the final years of high school. But a new lunch time tech club at Le Marchant St.
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Profile: Ozge Yeloglu’s Journey

  • Apr 11, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Even in the 21st century, female computer scientists are few in number and women founders of tech startups are even scarcer, but Ozge Yeloglu doesn’t find her position lonely. The co-founder and CEO of Halifax-based data analytics venture topLog

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Charities Knocking on Fundmetric’s Door

  • Apr 10, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Mark Hobbs and Chris Kolmatycki knew they were on to something with FundMetric when clients said they would sign up for the product that helps charities improve their fundraising before it was even completed.

The two former advertising execs

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StudentFresh Builds on CBMC Finals

  • Apr 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Canada’s Business Model Competition was held at Dalhousie University in March, the leading Atlantic Canadian entry was a team from Memorial University that had only been working together for two months.

StudentFresh is a platform designed

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Uhma Gives Back with Tech Ed Project

  • Apr 08, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Two years after the company he co-founded was bought out by Salesforce.com, Gavin Uhma is giving back to the community with a new educational initiative that will help teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs how to build companies.

Uhma is still the

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Hankinson’s Compilr Exits

  • Apr 07, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Compilr, a Halifax startup that teaches people how to code, has been acquired by lynda.com, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based online education company, for an undisclosed sum.

Founder Patrick Hankinson said last September he was willing to sell all or

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Third Starting Lean Course Wraps Up

  • Apr 07, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The third Starting Lean course at Dalhousie University wrapped up on Thursday evening with the announcement that one team, Hindsight Health Inc. would attend the International Business Model Competition in Provo, Utah, next month.

For the last

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Profile: Shukla’s Lean Engineering

  • Apr 04, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

You might expect a course in entrepreneurship to be based in a business school, but the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton melds talents and disciplines by teaching entrepreneurship in the engineering faculty. This summer, the school will

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Code Kids Brings Tech Education to TV

  • Apr 03, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

CBC viewers across Canada will soon learn how educational programs in Estonia and Finland are serving as the model for an experiment in computer education for Maritime schoolchildren.

The national broadcaster will soon present Code Kids, the

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