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Ladies Learning Code Event Jan. 28

  • Jan 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Ladies Learning Code Halifax will hold its 2017 Kick-Off event on Saturday, teaching women and youth basic programming skills at its Data Processing with Python for Beginners workshop.

Ladies Learning Code is a not-for-profit organization with the

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Analyze Re To Speak at Launch Dal

  • Jan 25, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Launch Dal, the entrepreneurship program at Dalhousie University, will kick off its winter program with fireside chat with Analyze Re on Jan. 31 at 6:30 pm.

Analyze Re is a Halifax company whose software-as-a-service product helps reinsurers assess

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Aiding the Homeless with Blockchain

  • Jan 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Scott Burke wants to use one of the world’s hottest technologies to improve the lot of homeless people.

Burke is the cofounder and CEO of Hypergive, a new Halifax company developing a stored-value card that allows homeless people to purchase

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Propel ICT Names First Growth Cohort

  • Jan 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, Atlantic Canada’s IT startup accelerator, has announced the first round of companies selected to its Growth program,  which aims to help established innovation companies grow more quickly.

Veteran technology executive Stephen Palmer,

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CarbonCure in Global Cleantech 100

  • Jan 24, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

CarbonCure Technologies, the Halifax company whose method of making concrete reduces carbon emissions, has been named in the prestigious 2017 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, or CTG.

The Global Cleantech 100 represents the most

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12 Teams in Breakthru Semi-Finals

  • Jan 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

The New Brunswick Innovation Foundation has announced the dozen finalists for the 2017 Breakthru competition in the build-up to revealing the winners in late March.

Breakthru is the innovation agency’s flagship competition, held every second year.

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Job of the Week: Resson Developer

  • Jan 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

In our Job of the Week column today, we’re showcasing an opening for software developers (Computer Vision) with one of the regions hottest startups, Resson.

Fredericton-based Resson launched four years ago to create software that would assess data

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MPs Meeting East Coast Innovators

  • Jan 23, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

A four-member group of Atlantic Canadian members of Parliament has wrapped up a tour of the region to hear the concern of innovators and entrepreneurs from the oceans, tech, clean tech, and social innovation sectors.

Andy Fillmore (Halifax), Matt

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Bringing Tech to Mink Farming

  • Jan 20, 2017
  • Carol Moreira

Mathias Nielsen is like a one-man diversity project. Born in Denmark, Nielsen once developed an app in China that gauged the authenticity of expensive alcohol. Now he’s based in St. John’s where he’s launched technology that helps mink farmers

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Propel ICT’s Build Program Schedule

  • Jan 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Propel ICT, the regional accelerator, has released a tentative schedule for the Build Program in its coming cohort.

Build is the program for scaling companies, those with revenues and looking to grow their businesses. The next 12-week program will

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Digital NS Partners With WCT

  • Jan 20, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

Digital Nova Scotia and Women in Communications and Technology are pleased to announce a partnership agreement.

Under the partnership, the two non-profit organizations will collaborate on a number of initiatives, including their respective awards

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BlueLight, 3M Form US Partnership

  • Jan 19, 2017
  • Peter Moreira

BlueLight Analytics Inc., a Halifax company that helps ensure the proper curing of dental fillings, has partnered with industrial giant 3M Corp. to greatly expand the startup’s sales power in the U.S.

The two companies announced the partnership on

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