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Entrepreneurs’ Forum Relaunches

  • Apr 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Entrepreneurs’ Forum, the pan-regional not-for-profit that promotes entrepreneurship, has rebranded itself as Entrepreneurs3.0 as a sign of its enhanced mission.

As Entrepreneurs’ Forum, the group was known for bringing together entrepreneurs

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Press Release: CBU & Sona

  • Apr 15, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Verschuren Centre at Cape Breton University has issued the following press release:

VERSCHUREN CENTRE, CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY, WELCOMES DEVELOPERS OF WORLD’S FIRST TOXIN-FREE GOLD NANO RODS - SONA NANOTECH LIMITED

Sydney, NS – Sona

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PEI Seeks Applicants for Ignition

  • Apr 15, 2015
  • Scott Moreira

Innovation PEI is looking for promising new P.E.I.-based businesses and startups to bring forward proposals for the second round of its Ignition program.

The provincial government’s innovation agency recently announced the winners of its

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Gingles Buoyed by Live Streaming Fad

  • Apr 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Erik Gingles reacted to the news of Periscope’s purchase by Twitter with equal measures of elation and frustration.

The news broke March 9 that Twitter had bought Periscope, which allows Twitter users to display live video from their

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How Budgets Changed Tax Credits

  • Apr 14, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

Lost in the recent controversy over budgets in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is the fact that we’ve moved no closer to harmonizing or unifying investment tax credits in the region.

In fact, there are now greater differences in the provincial

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ETC Preps for Septic Sitter Launch

  • Apr 13, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

When Kelly Galloway speaks of her product that monitors septic systems, it doesn’t take her long to outline her plans for an Internet of Things solution that will automatically protect homeowners from the horrors of reversing septic tanks.

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Sears Moves SageCrowd Forward

  • Apr 10, 2015
  • Carol Moreira

From the outset, Sean Sears and his team at sageCrowd felt that modern learning science would provide a sound basis for their e-learning platform.

Nonetheless, in a pattern typical of startup development, the sageCrowd founders shifted the

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The NS Link to the LinkedIn Deal

  • Apr 10, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

There was a Nova Scotian angle to the $1.5 billion deal that was the talk of Silicon Valley yesterday.

Professional social media network LinkedIn announced it would pay $1.5 billion in cash and stock for Lynda.com, a Carpinteria, Calif.-based

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NBIF, Innovacorp Fund Propel Grads

  • Apr 09, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

PropelICT, Atlantic Canada’s startup accelerator, announced Wednesday that the best Nova Scotian and New Bruncswick graduates from its accelerator will now be eligible for an additional $100,000 in funding.

The accelerator has struck a

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Alston Calls for a Cultural Shift

  • Apr 09, 2015
  • David Alston

I returned recently from a trip to India. We were there to film part of a new documentary called The Millennial Dream. We wanted to see how millennials and an emerging culture of social entrepreneurship in a city of 1.5 million people could

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GetGifted Calls It a Day

  • Apr 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

GetGifted has sent out its last gift list.

The Charlottetown startup that helped local merchants reward customers by giving them gifts announced on social media Tuesday that it would cease operations.

CEO and co-founder Gillian McCrae said in

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NS Gives $400K to Brilliant Labs

  • Apr 08, 2015
  • Peter Moreira

The Nova Scotia government announced Tuesday it will contribute $400,000 to Brilliant Labs, an initiative that encourages technical education in schools in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Premier Stephen McNeil said the government will ensure the

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