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Smart Skin Lands Early Adopter

  • Apr 25, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Smart Skin Technologies of Fredericton has reached an agreement with a major golf club manufacturer to help launch its new Quantifeel product, which tests the pressure points on a golfer’s grip throughout the swing.

Founder and CEO Kumaran

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Celtx Doubles Revenue in 3 Months

  • Apr 24, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

What a difference a year has made for Celtx, the St. John’s-based maker of pre-production software for the film industry.

By coincidence, I recently interviewed CEO Mark Kennedy, one year to the day after my last report on the company appeared

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CENE to Launch at Venture Forum

  • Apr 22, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Canadian Entrepreneurs in New England, a Boston-based group dedicated to helping Canadian tech and biotech companies navigate the New England startup community, will be launched at the Atlantic Venture Forum in Halifax in June.

Critical Path,

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CTA@NYC Aiding Tech Startups

  • Apr 19, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Andrew Cherwenka first showed up in New York to market his Toronto-based startup Authintic, he worked out of coffee shops, always on the lookout for a spot with free wi-fi.

Today, he’s working in shared space in the city’s Flatiron district

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Media Spot Me Mulls Move to Halifax

  • Apr 18, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Media Spot Me, a Kitchener, Ont.-based, startup that helps link journalists and experts, is considering a move to Halifax if it can make the economics of such a move work out.

 

The company was started two years ago by former television

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Jenkins Pushes Federal Procurement

  • Apr 17, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

One of Canada’s leading specialists in innovation on Tuesday urged Atlantic Canada’s entrepreneurs to embrace federal government procurement as a means of driving their products to market.

Tom Jenkins, the Executive Chairman of Waterloo-based

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TopLog Seeks Partner to Aid Rollout

  • Apr 16, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

TopLog is three entrepreneurs from three countries who will soon have three doctorates in computer science.  And they have a single mission: to develop a company that makes life easier for network system administrators.

“TopLog turns system data

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Celsius Aims High with Drifter

  • Apr 15, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

When Celsius Game Studios Inc. releases its space-trading game Drifter later this year, it will feature planets or star systems named after five real-life Earthlings, who have paid handsomely for the naming rights.

Based in St. John’s, N.L.,

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Cowan: 7 Factors about Incorporating

  • Apr 12, 2013
  • Rob Cowan

A corporation or a partnership?

That’s a question facing a lot of founding teams early in their startup life, and it keeps coming up until they finally decide to incorporate.

As with so many business decisions, the correct answer depends on

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Girls Tech League Finals Saturday

  • Apr 12, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

CompCamp, the group dedicated to teaching teens to code, has issued the following press release on its Girls Tech League championship this weekend:

Halifax, NS, April 9, 2013 – The Girls Tech League, a programing competition for junior high

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Headspace Preps Pitch Perfect Launch

  • Apr 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

Pitch Perfect, a spinoff from Halifax consultancy Headspace Design, will make its long-awaited debut in the autumn, after its developers conduct beta tests in the next few months.

The new company allows commercial design consultants and other

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Kira Awards Finalists Announced

  • Apr 11, 2013
  • Peter Moreira

The KIRA Awards' Selection Committee yesterday announced the finalists for the 2013 Knowledge Industry Recognition and Achievement award.

The winners of the New Brunswick award will be named at a dinner May 2 at the Fredericton Convention

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