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Tech Leadership Event Set for May
Communitech has announced the speakers who will join keynotes Ray Kurzweil and Robin Chase in presenting at the Tech Leadership Conference in May.
The Tech Leadership Conference – to be held at Communitech on May 12 – will examine trends in
Lux Wind Crowdfunding for Trials
A Halifax company has launched a $500,000 to $800,000 crowdfunding campaign to test a revolutionary form of wind turbine that could improve the economics of wind power.
Lux Wind Turbines is raising money so it can build a test version of its new
Soricimed Wins Orphan Drug Status
Sackville, N.B.-based Soricimed Biopharma Inc., a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing peptide-based cancer therapeutics, has won a key regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S.
The company said in a
PACTA Wins Fundica Roadshow
PACTA, the Halifax company whose technology helps to manage contracts, won the Atlantic Canadian stop in the Fundica Roadshow on Friday, securing a trip to and office space in Silicon Valley.
The Fundica Roadshow goes across the country, hearing
Job of the Week: BlueLight Analytics
This week in Job of the Week, we are featuring a posting from a company involved in dental health: BlueLight Analytics of Halifax is looking for a software developer.
BlueLight specializes in the measurement of the curing light used to harden
The Millennial Dream to Air March 15
As the American Dream gives way to the more socially responsible Millennial Dream, this region should work to attract and keep members of the millennial generation, argues Greg Hemmings, founder and CEO of New Brunswick’s Hemmings House Pictures.
Singolar Enters SAP Startup Program
By attending a Canadian government program in Silicon Valley, Wolfville-based Singolar has initiated a relationship with one of the world’s biggest enterprise software companies.
Five weeks ago, we wrote that Singolar was heading to Northern
Velocity: A Unique University Facility
When Ted Livingston was 23 years old, he had a problem not many people that age face: he had to get rid of $1 million.
Livingston is the Founder and CEO of Kik.com, the high-flying chat service that has almost a quarter-billion registered users. In
Vesuvius Preps for Gen Con in August
On a beach in Greece in 2004, Konstantinos Manos and Dimitrios Xanthakis were playing a browser game.
“We can make games 10,000 times better than this one — in a weekend!” Manos said. They laughed it off.
Six years later, the software developer
Confessions of an Entrepreneur
First things first. Small business owners are not so inclined to confess how they are feeling about their own small business ... especially when they are stressed to the point where their jaw feels perpetually locked in one position. Well I have a
Build Invests $1.9M in Spring Loaded
A month after launching its successful crowdfunding campaign, Spring Loaded Technology has announced a $1.9 million venture capital investment and a new $1 million contract with the Canadian military.
The Dartmouth company has developed the
Briefs: Kinduct, Selectbidder, RtTech
Indiana Pacers Adopt Kinduct Platform
Halifax-based startup Kinduct Technologies announced Monday that the Indiana Pacers are its newest high-profile client. The Pacers have partnered with Kinduct as their athlete management software provider to
