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I-3 Contest Draws 188 Submissions

  • Oct 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Innovacorp’s I-3 Technology Start-Up Competition has received 188 submissions for its 2015-16 event. Though it was fewer applications than the last time the contest was held, the organizers said they’re pleased with the number – and especially the

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Sequence, NL Govt Sign Agreement

  • Oct 18, 2015

Sequence Bio, the St. John’s company that analyzes genetic data to improve medical outcomes, has signed a partnership agreement with the government of Newfoundland and Labrador to conduct research in the province.

The parties last week announced

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Please Get Out and Vote Today

  • Oct 18, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Please, please, please, get out and vote today.

While all citizens should vote, we feel it’s especially important for members of the startup community to exercise their franchise for two main reasons.

First, there’s a movement afoot for the

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Thriving in Place-Based Marketing

  • Oct 16, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

Just as consumers are purchasing streaming devices to control their home entertainment, businesses are turning to Internet technology to control screens inside their places of business.

Brand marketers and retail networks are among those using

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SMU MTEI Lands $1.5M Donation

  • Oct 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Masters of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation program at St. Mary’s University has received a $1.5 million donation from Scotiabank and two Nova Scotian natives with strong ties to both the university and the bank.

Mike and Catherine

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Feunekes Honoured by Startup Canada

  • Oct 16, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

In receiving the Adam Chowaniec Lifetime Achievement award from Startup Canada on Wednesday night, Andrea Feunekes noted that building Remsoft into a global leader in natural resources land management hasn’t always been easy.

Feunekes received

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3 Takeaways from a Month in KW

  • Oct 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

A month immersed in the Kitchener-Waterloo tech community is an exhilarating and educational experience. Here are three things I learned from spending the last month among the greatest concentration of startups in the country.

•Twenty-five

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Spinzo Inks Deal with Arizona Coyotes

  • Oct 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Spinzo, the Saint John-based developer of a crowdsourcing platform, has signed on the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League as its first professional sports client, and is in talks with other teams.

The Coyotes released a statement

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LeadSift, RtTech, SkySquirrel in CIX

  • Oct 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Three Atlantic Canadian companies – LeadSift, RtTech Software, and SkySquirrel Technologies– have been named to the prestigious Canadian Innovation Exchange Top 20 for 2015.

The CIX website says the selected companies are “the hottest, most

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Dozr Eases Contractors’ Pain

  • Oct 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Construction equipment is expensive, capital intensive and can sit idle much of the time, especially in a northern environment. But a fast-growing startup based in Guelph believes it has found a way to alleviate the financial pain of owning such

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Wheeler Aims to Clone more Gavins

  • Oct 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

One night in July, the dozen members of the first UIT program from Cape Breton University gathered at a restaurant in Sydney and held a mock graduation.

Even though the tech and entrepreneurship program does not grant degrees, they wore academic

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Karma Gaming Launches FrontRow

  • Oct 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Karma Gaming, the Halifax startup that develops online games for regulated lotteries, has released FrontRow, the world’s first mobile fantasy sports product built for the lottery industry.

Fantasy sports — in which a fan builds a team from

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