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Lockheed Martin Supports Jedi

  • Oct 12, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Lockheed Martin Canada said today it will expand its partnership with the Joint Economic Development Initiative, or Jedi, a not-for-profit organization that fosters economic development for First Nations in New Brunswick.

JEDI launched a targeted

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ProductCamp To Be Held Oct. 22

  • Oct 12, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The third annual ProductCamp Atlantic, a gathering for product managers, marketing professionals, agile technology innovators, and thought leaders from across the region, will be held at the Innovacorp Enterprise Centre on Saturday, Oct. 22.

Using

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What’s Next for Karma Gaming?

  • Oct 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Karma Gaming has sold its portfolio of lottery and instant games to Scientific Games Corp. of Las Vegas for an undisclosed price.

Scientific Games, which is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, announced the deal last week, saying it had taken on

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Innovacorp’s Oceans Adopter Program

  • Oct 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Six Nova Scotia ocean technology companies have been selected to participate in Innovacorp’s Early Adopter Program, the provincial innovation agency said.

Each of the companies in the program will receive as much as $20,000 to help finance the

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Athletigen Releases Flagship Product

  • Oct 11, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Athletigen Technologies, a Halifax company dedicated to genetics for athletes, on Monday released its flagship product Iris.

Iris produces human performance insights developed from partnerships with world-class athletes and performance experts. The

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Wise: Best Time Ever for Startups

  • Oct 10, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

A familiar face on the East Coast startup circuit, Sean Wise had a limited time to answer a range of questions at Invest Atlantic and summed them up in a simple sentence: it’s a great time to be an entrepreneur.

Wise is a professor of

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Job of the Week: Resson Growing

  • Oct 10, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Our Jobs of the Week column this week features an opportunity for a developer interested in working for one of the hottest tech companies in the region.

The Fredericton agriculture technology company Resson, which this year announced it had raised

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Cape Breton Startups on Display

  • Oct 07, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Cape Breton startups had to compete with Donald Trump, Jeff Hutcheson and Jim Balsillie at the Cape Breton Partnership’s Investor Summit on Thursday, but the young companies more than held their own.

The summit is the annual conference of the

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Sullivan Balances Appili’s Risks

  • Oct 06, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

Pathogens’ growing antibiotic resistance is a global concern. Halifax drug discovery firm Appili Therapeutics Inc. is developing its own solutions, and scouring the world for potential drugs with which to grow the company.

CEO Kevin Sullivan said

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Squiggle Park Joins Fierce Founders

  • Oct 06, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

As it launches the pilot of its first product, Halifax-based Squiggle Park has been accepted into the Fierce Founders Accelerator, a new program in Kitchener-Waterloo for female tech entrepreneurs.

The Halifax educational technology company,

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Clearpath Raises US$30M in VC

  • Oct 06, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Kitchener-based Clearpath Robotics Inc. said  Wednesday it has raised US$30 million (C$39.5 million) in a follow-on round led by iNovia Capital of Montreal.

The funding is on top of a $14 million round it closed early in 2015.

The other investors

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Startups Help To Retain Young People

  • Oct 04, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

About four years ago, a trio of game developers came together to form a Bedford-based gaming studio called Alpha Dog Games, and quietly began to grow.

The team started with three founders – two of whom, Jeff Cameron and Shawn Woods, are still with

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