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CarbonCure’s New Ready-Mix Product

  • Dec 07, 2015
  • Sabina Wex

CarbonCure Technologies will enter the ready-mixed concrete market due to its recent partnership with Vulcan Materials Company, the largest U.S. producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of construction materials.

Five to 10

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This Week’s Leading Jobs in Moncton

  • Dec 07, 2015

Today, for the first time, we will post Jobs of the Week, to highlight Atlantic Canadian tech and startup openings that have been posted on the Entrevestor Job Board, which is powered by Qimple.

Entrevestor and Qimple last month launched this

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Weisenburger: A Corporate Psychologist

  • Dec 03, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

As Joni Mitchell sang, ‘you don’t know what you got till it’s gone’. In Christian Weisenburger’s case, it wasn’t until he was on the brink of changing career and moving to Europe that he realized that, after all, he wanted to stay in Halifax and

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Knowledgehook Nears New Funding

  • Dec 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

As it begins its tenure in the Communitech’s Rev accelerator, educational technology company Knowledgehook is preparing to close a $200,000 strategic investment from a major European corporation.

The funding and the entry into Rev are the latest

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Startup Canada Hails Aboriginals, Gillis

  • Dec 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Startup Canada Awards ceremony at the CN Tower on Tuesday focused foursquare on the country’s future, paying special attention to the potential of the native community and on one young entrepreneur, 17-year-old Alex Gillis of Halifax.

The

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Canada Loses Ground in Innovation

  • Dec 03, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Having spent decades promoting innovation in the economy of Canada and its eastern provinces, Jacquelyn Thayer Scott is frustrated that the country is actually regressing compared with its peers.

Scott is the Past President and professor of

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Rogers Buys Halifax’s IAI

  • Dec 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Rogers Communications said Tuesday it has bought Halifax-based Internetworking Atlantic Inc. for an undisclosed price to gain a data centre and provide enhanced tech solutions to its Atlantic Canada clients.

The Toronto communications company

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Densitas Gets Approval for Canada, EU

  • Dec 02, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Weeks after announcing a $250,000 equity investment, Halifax-based Densitas has received regulatory clearance in the European Union and Canada to sell its first product, DM-Density.

When the company revealed its $250,000 funding from Innovacorp

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SkySquirrel Preps New Product for 2016

  • Dec 01, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

SkySquirrel, the Halifax startup that uses drones to improve yields in vineyards, is gearing up to launch a new product in 2016 that will help attack a persistent problem in the European wine industry.

SkySquirrel’s drones survey and collect

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GrowthWorks Adapts to New Reality

  • Nov 30, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Adopting a strategy to maintain its fund without fresh investment, GrowthWorks Atlantic has borrowed $1.5 million to cover operating costs and adopted a plan to distribute funds to its shareholders over time.

The Halifax-based venture capital

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DMZ, UK Group Hosting Competition

  • Nov 30, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The DMZ at Ryerson University is looking for startups in Kitchener-Waterloo interested in applying for the Next Big Idea Contest, which the university is organizing in partnership with Innovation Birmingham in the U.K.

The contest is open to

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Donovan Wins EY’s Canadian Award

  • Nov 27, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Michael Donovan, Executive Chairman of Halifax- and Toronto-based DHX Media Ltd., has been named Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year by the global consultancy EY.

EY said in a statement that Donovan, who heads a global film and television company

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