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Detailing the Startup Jobs Boom

  • May 26, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

As her business grows, Gillian McCrae is rewarding more than just merchants and their customers.

She’s also rewarding a lot of workers.

McCrae is the Founder and CEO of GetGifted, a year-and-a-half-old Charlottetown startup that allows local

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Press Release: CATA Awards

  • May 26, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Atlantic Canadian Expertise Recognized in Awards: Leadership & Innovation

Atlantic Canadians were featured in the 2014 Award Winners at the most prestigious event of the high-tech industry.

The 29th Annual Gala of Canada’s largest high-tech

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Press Release: Cloud-A’s “Seeded”

  • May 26, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Cloud-A Launches “Seeded”: Cloud Support for Startups 

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada – May 23, 2014 -- Cloud-A, Canada’s high performance Cloud, announced it is launching “Seeded” – a program to support the development of internet based, seed

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James Seeks Funds for Enablers.ca

  • May 23, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Three years ago, Roswell James was suffering from shingles, which so weakened his eyes he could only use them for brief periods each day. In that precious time, he went online to research his condition, but found there was no one site that

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Mirametrix Wins BDC Innovation Award

  • May 23, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Mirametrix, a Montreal company that makes it easier for people to use computers, has won the first BDC Innovation Award, edging out three other competitors including an Atlantic Canadian company.

Launched in 2011, Mirametrix has developed

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Internet of Things Creates New Models

  • May 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

The profound growth of the Internet of Things is creating new business models in which Big Business is becoming more open and collaborative and creating opportunities for startups, the CVCA Conference in Ottawa heard Wednesday.

A panel of the

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Scene Sharp Revamps Sales Model

  • May 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Scene Sharp Technologies Inc., a Fredericton software company that improves the quality of colour digital photography, is ramping up its sales effort through a series of deals with international distributors.

Scene Sharp is the company set up to

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Jutla: New Paradigms Merit Bold Moves

  • May 22, 2014
  • Dawn Jutla

A technology start-up “gold rush” is in progress worldwide with no signs of slowing, and Atlantic Canada is showing it has the educated resources and energy to pan for this gold too.

According to the latest Entrevestor Intelligence report, 153

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Press Release: Venn Launches

  • May 22, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Venn Innovation, the Moncton-based tech support organization, issued the following press release this week:

Venn Vision and Programs Launched

For immediate release:

Moncton, New Brunswick (May 20, 2014) – Today, Venn Innovation Inc.,

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Congrats to Startup Canada Winners

  • May 21, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Congrats to all the winners  of the Startup Canada Atlantic Awards, which were presented last night at a reception at Dalhousie University.

It was a rousing affair, deftly hosted by Rivers Corbett, the Fredericton-based  owner of the Relish

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How Verafin Won $60M from Spectrum

  • May 20, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Spectrum Equity managing director Chris Mitchell flew into St. John’s to meet Verafin  two-and-a-half years ago, both parties noticed something in the other that they liked.

Mitchell and his team from the Boston and Menlo Park, Calif.,

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Profile: Championing PEI Biotech

  • May 16, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

Rory Francis’s voice crackled with enthusiasm as he spoke by phone from Charlottetown. “We’re defying gravity here,” said the executive director of the Prince Edward Island BioAlliance as he revealed that, after a decade of careful nurturing, the

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