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HotSpot Parking’s New CRM Function

  • Jan 09, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Phillip Curley walked into a Fredericton Tim Hortons last week bearing a big smile and a handful of blue plastic chips that he had just received in the mail.

The chips, each about the size of a loonie, were Bluetooth low energy devices. Curley

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Swapskis Building Female Community

  • Jan 07, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

Katelyn Bourgoin had such huge belief in her plans for a bartering website that she bartered with service providers to get it built.

Bourgoin, the head of the Halifax marketing firm RedRiot Communications, had a vision about a year ago for a

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Makerspace Halifax Seeks New Home

  • Jan 06, 2014
  • Carol Moreira

As a tenant of Halifax’s historic Roy Building, which will be replaced by a new building this year, Halifax Makerspace Society is looking for fresh accommodation. The fledgling group of creators needs a space large enough to accommodate a growing

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Pushing the Limits with Drones

  • Jan 03, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

For about a decade, Siu O’Young has been wrestling with a problem: How can unmanned aircraft — commonly known as drones — fly safely in a sky filled with aircraft?

A native of Hong Kong, O’Young is a professor at Memorial University of

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Pixel Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign

  • Jan 02, 2014
  • Peter Moreira

When Ian Earle encountered a common problem with his digital camera last year, he had no idea it would lead to a business that helps chip-truck owners and street vendors.

The third-year computer science student at Dalhousie University has teamed

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Kicking Off 2014 with Techvibes

  • Dec 31, 2013
  • Carol and Peter Moreira

We want to wish a Happy New Year to all our readers, and close out 2013 by drawing your attention to the Techvibes home page. There you’ll find Entrevestor’s wrapup of the year – the first of what we hope will be frequent Entrevestor posts on

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Holiday Wishes to our Readers

  • Dec 24, 2013
  • Carol and Peter Moreira

We’ve had a great year at Entrevestor, and one of the joys has been meeting and chatting with so many dynamic people in the startup world. So we’d like to take a moment to thank you for your support and friendship, and for educating us in the

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Dear Santa, I Need Robotics Gear

  • Dec 24, 2013
  • Carol Moreira

Like most youngsters, Jonathan Robichaud is excited about putting snacks around the chimney for Santa and his reindeer. In the Robichaud household, Santa is left chocolate chip cookies and a latte, and his reindeer get carrots and celery.

What

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2013’s Big Story: Institutional Capital

  • Dec 23, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Robert Niven walked into the CarbonCure Technologies holiday party earlier this month with an expression that was equal parts elation and weariness. Not only had the company’s Founder and CEO spent the week closing a few sales deals, he had also

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Raised Updates Canadian Encyclopedia

  • Dec 20, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

One of Atlantic Canada’s premier digital media companies had the honour this year to re-digitize a true national icon — The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Raised Media won the contract to redevelop the esteemed publication’s online product, which

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ABM, Alcatel-Lucent Ink Partnership

  • Dec 19, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Dartmouth-based ABM Integrated Solutions, one of Atlantic Canada’s largest IT and communications service providers, has signed an agreement with global telecom technology company Alcatel-Lucent to offer unified communications solutions to clients.

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A Call for the #startupeast Hashtag

  • Dec 18, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

We need an East Coast startup hashtag.

After talking to several people on the matter, it’s become clear that social networking within the regional community is being hindered by the lack of a hashtag for the Atlantic Canadian startup community.

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