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Vesuvius Crowdfunds Centauri Sequel

  • Apr 04, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Vesuvius Media, a Halifax-based game development company, will launch its new board game Centauri Saga: Season 1 Legacy Game on Kickstarter this Saturday.

The new game is a sequel to the original Centauri Saga game, which Vesuvius Media launched

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SNM Releases Anti-Smoking App

  • Apr 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

After several years in developing her product,  Hazel Harrison of St. John’s is launching the first part of her product to help wean smokers off cigarettes.

Harrison is the CEO of SNM Global Technologies – which stands for Smoke No More. The

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Jobs: Dash Hudson and Swept

  • Apr 03, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Dash Hudson and Swept, two of the companies featured at the Amplify conference last week,are looking for fresh talent in Halifax.

Dash Hudson, whose CEO Thomas Rankin outlined how his company used sales development reps to generate more paying

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NS Startups Doing Well & Doing Good

  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

High-growth innovation companies are great because they promise to become major exporters and employers. That economic potential is wonderful. What’s even better is that so many of these company have a great social and/or environmental impact.

Last

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Keefe Interim CEO at PEI Startup Zone

  • Mar 31, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Startup Zone, the innovation hub in downtown Charlottetown, announced this week that Doug Keefe would become its Interim CEO. The Interim CEO of the Startup Zone is integral to the continued development and management of Prince Edward Island’s

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Local Speakers Shine at Amplify

  • Mar 30, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The Amplify Growth Conference in Halifax Tuesday displayed something that’s becoming more common in startup events in Atlantic Canada: When the local speakers took the stage, they were generally as impressive as the experts flown in from the U.S.

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NB Ladies Learning Code Collaboration

  • Mar 30, 2017
  • Book Sadprasid, Huddle

The Fredericton and the Saint John chapters of Ladies Learning Code will now be working more closely together as a New Brunswick team to offer bigger, better, more variety events with the aim to normalize computer science knowledge and get more

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Innovacorp Seeks CEO, Ends I-3

  • Mar 29, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp is looking for a successor to CEO Stephen Duff, who plans to step down next year, and has ended its I-3 Startup Technology Competition.

Duff said in an interview Tuesday he has told the board of the the Nova Scotia innovation agency that

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The World’s Top University Incubator

  • Mar 27, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Tucked inside one of the elegant limestone facades of Bath, England, just metres from the ancient Roman ruins, is a marvel that few tourists visit: part of the world’s No. 1 university incubator.

The University of Bath Innovation Centre occupies an

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4 Atlantic Canadians at G20 Summit

  • Mar 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

When the G20 Young Entrepreneurs' Alliance Summit meets in Berlin in June, one-eighth of the Canadian delegation will be made up of representatives from Atlantic Canada.

Canada is sending 32 young entrepreneurs to the gathering, which provides a

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Jobs of the Week: iWave, Alongside

  • Mar 26, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

New postings at iWave Information Systems in Charlottetown and Alongside in Moncton are the focus of the Jobs of the Week column this week .

Based in Charlottetown, iWave has developed software that helps researchers, fundraisers and other

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Pfera Wins $375K Prize at Breakthru

  • Mar 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Pfera, which is developing technology that can accurately predict when a pregnant horse will give birth, has captured the $375,000 first prize in the New Brunswick Innovation Agency’s Breakthru competition.

Pfera CEO Lisa Pfister claimed the award

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