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Global Game Jam Set for Volta
Volta Labs in Halifax next weekend will be the Nova Scotian base for the Global Game Jam, or GGJ, a worldwide weekend event that unites creative minds to develop games.
The 48-hour event will give participants a chance to develop video games, or
Four Hotspots in Ottawa’s Tech Policy
The symbolism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to southern Ontario last week was tremendously important for his government because it gave important signals about its industrial strategy.
Trudeau toured the Toronto-Waterloo innovation
OnPoint Brings NFL Data to the Fans
Elisha Ferrara is a Canadian entrepreneur who wants NFL fans to have the same data on their cell phone that the sports announcers have in their broadcast booth.
For free.
Ferrara is the CEO of Kitchener, Ontario-based OnPoint Sports, whose mobile
Venn Partners with YEC in Moncton
Venn Innovation Inc. and Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge have entered a multi-year partnership to provide more opportunities for New Brunswick’s future entrepreneurs.
Under the partnership announced this month, Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge
Jobs of the Week: Fredericton Hiring
This week in Jobs of the Week, we’re featuring three positions in Fredericton, with TotalPave and CyberPsyc; and one in Brampton, Ontario with Prism Tradeshow Lighting.
TotalPave is a growth stage startup company that gives municipalities the
PM Opens Google’s Kitchener Office
Google opened its new engineering centre in Kitchener on Thursday, tripling the size of its staff and broadening its presence in one of the world’s great centres for technological talent.
The new company was officially opened by Prime Minister
Foresight Pays Off for Trish Kiley
For Trish Kiley, president and CEO of digital media company Advanced Publishing, success in business means anticipating trends in publishing and technology.
Forward-thinking is essential because the Saint John, N.B., company helps publishers make
Covering Two Prime Ministers Trudeau
This is a tale of two Prime Ministers Trudeau, divided by about 30 kilometres and just over 32 years.
The most recent of these prime ministers, Justin Trudeau, visited Kitchener on Thursday to open the city’s new Google office. Standing in the
Mobile Ecommerce To Boom in 2016
This will be the year when we begin to buy stuff on our cell phones.
That is the main forecast from Deloitte Canada in its 2016 predictions for the Technology, Media and Telecom markets. The global consultancy on Wednesday released its annual
Deloitte: More Women Needed in IT
In its 2016 predictions on leading high-growth industries, Deloitte Canada has highlighted one of the black marks in the tech industries: the lack of women working in the field.
The Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecom predictions are customarily
2nd Crowdfunding Rule Due Jan. 25
In a little less than two weeks, there will be not one but two sets of rules overseeing equity crowdfunding in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. And then, there will have to be a few test cases to more fully understand how this crowdfunding thing works
Moncton McCain Event Postponed
The Moncton Cybersocial and Angel Den that we wrote about last week has been delayed by a week because of a winter storm.
The event -- which will feature executives from McCain Foods and its startup partners Resson Aerospace and Fiddlehead
