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GetGifted Launches in Halifax Tuesday

  • Dec 09, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

GetGifted, the Charlottetown-based social media phenomenon, will launch tomorrow in Halifax, the largest city the young company has entered.

Founder and CEO Gillian McCrae said late last week the company has signed up about 40 merchants for the

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Profile: MacLeod at Startup Club Med

  • Dec 06, 2013
  • Carol Moreira

Boston is known as a city that nurtures innovation. Think MIT and Babson College, or Harvard, where Facebook was born, or companies like Genzyme and Boston Scientific. And in this startup mecca, Jordan MacLeod is developing his compan Strue,

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Atlantic Canada: Four News Silos

  • Dec 05, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

As the startup community strives to become a truly regional presence, one thing becomes increasingly clear and problematic: it’s difficult to follow what’s going on in provinces other than your own.

This is a problem for two reasons. First,

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Lopes’ Rform Aiding Architects

  • Dec 05, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

During his career as an architect on Prince Edward Island, David Lopes has discovered one part of the job he really doesn’t like: paperwork. And he’s learned that other architects dislike it as passionately as he does.

“Most architects get into

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B4Checkin’s TripAdvisor Certification

  • Dec 04, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

B4Checkin, the Halifax company offering SaaS hotel reservation systems, has received certification from leading hotel booking website TripAdvisor, greatly improving flexibility and efficiency for the startup’s clients.

The company issued a press

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Eigen Grows Quickly in Hot Segment

  • Dec 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Eigen Innovations Inc. is a New Brunswick company that ticks a lot of boxes on investors’ checklists.

The Fredericton startup has a strong industrial partner, patented software and an early adopter that will pay for its product. What’s more,

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Progress Looks at Staffing Startups

  • Dec 03, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

In the latest edition of Progress magazine, I take a look at the challenges facing startups when trying to attract talented people.

One thing that surprised me as I researched the story was that it is easier in some respects to staff a brand new

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Halifax Hair Wins 2 Acadia Events

  • Dec 02, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Tiffany James broke into a broad grin when her company Halifax Hair Extensions won the Pitch101 event at Acadia University on Friday. But she wasn’t through: an hour or two later, she also won the university’s Wes Nicol competition for business

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HootSuite Article in USA Today

  • Dec 02, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

I was really lucky recently to interview Ryan Holmes, the CEO of HootSuite, for an article in USA Today. The story ran late last week.

The Vancouver social media management company this summer raised $165 million in VC funding, the largest raise

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Profile: Nicole LeBlanc’s Multi-Tasking

  • Nov 29, 2013
  • Carol Moreira

While Nicole LeBlanc’s main job is finance director at the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, the accountant does not limit herself to counting beans.

LeBlanc’s other duties range from providing financial and business advice to the region’s

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FoodTender Expanding After Launch36

  • Nov 28, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

For the past few years, Andre Pellerin and Andre LeBlanc have watched their friends in the restaurant industry get squeezed by rising food costs. This year, they started a business to help out restaurant owners.

The two Moncton food services

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Nautel To Buy Sonar Company C-Tech

  • Nov 28, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Nautel Ltd., the Hackett’s Cove, N.S., maker of radio and television transmitters, agreed Wednesday to buy the business and assets of Marport C-tech Ltd., a Cornwall, Ont.-based maker of engineered sonar solutions.

The buyer said in a statement

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