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Briefs: B4checkin, CarbonCure, Remsoft

  • Feb 24, 2016

B4checkin Launches b4golf and b4spa

Halifax-based b4checkin, Inc., which provides cloud-based hospitality software, has announced the release of two new products – b4golf and b4spa.

B4golf is a tee-time reservation platform that provides members,

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Orenda Scaling at IBM Incubator

  • Feb 23, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The origin of Orenda Software Solutions — Cape Breton’s top entry in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition — dates back to the days when Tanya Collier MacDonald was working in public relations for the Sydney Tar Ponds cleanup.

Part of her

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TritonWear Sells Into 12 Countries

  • Feb 23, 2016
  • Rose Behar

Kitchener-based startup TritonWear officially launched its wearable head unit for swimmers just before the new year and sales have already spread to a dozen countries worldwide.

The unit, which athletes strap on to the back of their heads, provides

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Press Release: Sociallogical Training

  • Feb 23, 2016

Sociallogical, the Saint John-based social media consultancy, has issued the following press release:

Social Media Crash Course Set for Toronto

TORONTO, ON -- Canadian social media strategy firm Sociallogical will teach attendees of a three-day

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Alpha Dog Launching MonstroCity

  • Feb 22, 2016
  • Sabina Wex

Alpha Dog Games has released its newest mobile game MonstroCity: Build and Destroy in the Philippines, as a prelude to a global launch.

The Bedford-based mobile game company and its German online game publisher Gameforge hope to position

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Jobs of the Week: ProcedureFlow, STI

  • Feb 22, 2016
  • Scott Moreira

A pair of job openings at Saint John-based ProcedureFlow head this week’s postings in Jobs of the Week, which highlights postings on the Entrevestor Job Board. They are joined by postings from Brampton, Ont.-based Prism Tradeshow Lighting and STI

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Gillam Takes her Music Store Global

  • Feb 19, 2016
  • Carol Moreira

After building a successful music school, St. John’s-based Lisa Gillam is taking the advice of her advisory board and developing her online digital music store for the global market.

Gillam’s Munchkin Music Factory has already been successful in

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Affinio Attends Microsoft Accelerator

  • Feb 19, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Having recently received $4 million in a Series A funding round, Halifax-based Affinio has now been accepted into the third cohort of Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator.

The software giant has been hosting its accelerator since late 2014, and

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Pioneers in Quantum Computing

  • Feb 19, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Here’s a fact about the Institute of Quantum Computing that we can all get our heads around: tea is served each day at 4 p.m.

It’s a custom that Executive Director Raymond Laflamme started at the University of Waterloo facility a few years ago. He

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Lootbag Aims to Build Up User Base

  • Feb 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Daniel Code-McNeil is looking for 10,000 Haligonians who want free stuff.

Code-McNeil is a co-founder of Antigonish-based Lootbag, one of the finalists in the recent I-3 Technology Startup Competition. The company is developing a data-driven app

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Press Release: Adler at Starting Point

  • Feb 18, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Starting Point Entrepreneurship Conference, which is now under way at the Sobey School of Business at St. Mary’s University, has released the following press release:                        

Joey Adler to Address Starting Point

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Propel Names 38 Startups to Cohort

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

The Atlantic Canadian accelerator Propel ICT on Wednesday named the companies that will join its most recent cohort, including a full slate of P.E.I. startups and its first member from Cape Breton.

In naming the 38 companies to its first cohort of

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