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Helping Employers Use Job Boards
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
Press Release: Smart Skin Tech
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
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KIRA Awards Finalists Named
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
Learning Tech in Halifax Schools
Profile: Ozge Yeloglu’s Journey
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
Charities Knocking on Fundmetric’s Door
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
StudentFresh Builds on CBMC Finals
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
Uhma Gives Back with Tech Ed Project
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
Hankinson’s Compilr Exits
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
Third Starting Lean Course Wraps Up
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
Profile: Shukla’s Lean Engineering
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
Code Kids Brings Tech Education to TV
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
