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Jobs of the Week: The Latest Postings

  • Jan 04, 2016
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor and Qimple have launched the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the tech and startup communities.

Today we’re featuring the latest posts on the board from companies based in Toronto, Halifax and

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Holiday Wishes to All our Readers!

  • Dec 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

What a year it’s been! The tech and innovation communities in our markets have been on fire and we’ve had the joy of chronicling it for all of you.

From the Breakthru competition in New Brunswick to Innovation Week in St. John’s to several

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MTEI Teams Focus on Africa

  • Dec 24, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Three students at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax are toiling away on a social venture that could soon help improve education in Africa.

SeeMePly is a nascent company dedicated to simplifying the process of finding and applying to private

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An NS Teen Tackles E. coli

  • Dec 24, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

Three media interviews, basketball practice, schoolwork—this is a typical week in Rachel Brouwer’s life.

The 14-year-old also needs to fit in time for her own project: a water pasteurization system she created which kills 100 percent of E. coli in

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Farewell to Allison Sparling

  • Dec 22, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Allison Sparling is leaving Halifax and has bid a thoughtful adieu to the city on her website.

Sparling is a 25-year-old blogger, community organizer and communications specialist who has tried to make a go of it in her native Halifax, but the

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A Business Founded on Resilience

  • Dec 18, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

Workplace stress is a common cause of mental illness and distress. A Halifax venture is working to protect the health of workers by increasing their emotional toughness.

The Atlantic Institute for Resilience was founded last year by psychiatrist

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QRA Working With Lockheed Martin

  • Dec 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

QRA Corp announced Tuesday it has begun to provide Lockheed Martin engineers with an advanced early-stage systems verification solution for the development of increasingly complex cyber-physical designs.

QRA helps machine manufacturers to detect

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SageCrowd, Dal to Study E-Learning

  • Dec 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SageCrowd, the Halifax startup that enhances corporate training, has partnered with the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Dalhousie University to research the effects of training methods on online learning.

​This study, funded by an

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Ending the Atrocity of Sweat Stains

  • Dec 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Chanakya Ramdev got the idea for SweatFree Apparel when he had to trudge to work each day in the sweltering heat of Hong Kong.

During his coop work term with the University of Waterloo’s alumni office in Hong Kong last year, he would arrive at

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Eosense Launches 3 New Products

  • Dec 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Eosense, the Dartmouth company that makes instruments to detect gases escaping from the ground, is appearing at the American Geophysical Union this week with three new products on display.

The company, formerly called Forerunner Research, is

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MedStack To Aid Healthcare Apps

  • Dec 14, 2015
  • Rose Behar

Healthcare apps are on the rise, both in popularity and proliferation, but they often have to adhere to medical regulations. That’s why Waterloo-based MedStack is developing a platform that helps healthcare app developers build products that

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Jobs of the Week: St. John’s

  • Dec 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched the Entrevestor Job Board, which helps to match job openings and candidates in the Atlantic Canadian tech and startup communities.

Today we’re featuring posts on the board from companies based in St.

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