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Press Release: Oris4’s New Features
Halifax-based Oris4, which has developed a cloud-based document-organization system, has issued the following press release:
Oris4 to unveil latest integration at Salesforce.com event in Toronto
Oris4 will participate in salesforce.com’s
Populus Inks Major Deal in Barbados
Health information company Populus Global Solutions has won an international bid to supply the Government of Barbados with a fully-integrated national electronic health information system – its fourth major contract in the Caribbean-Central
Propel, BioAlliance Win CAIP Funding
PropelICT and the P.E.I. BioAlliance have been awarded five years of funding under the National Research Council’s Canada Accelerator and Incubator Program, or CAIP, which will allow them to expand their programing.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Teaching Youth Art, Entrepreneurship
A strong smell of pizza, along with words like “futurepreneur” and “artpreneur” drift in the air as the first cohort of ArtPreneur 2.0 meet at the Halifax offices of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education and Development, or CEED. This is the
AVF, Launch36 Prove Our Progress
To assess the superb quality of the companies on display in Halifax this week, we should start with Charlottetown drug discovery company Neurodyn, which captured the best growth stage company at the Atlantic Venture Forum.
It’s difficult to
Car Service Uber Comes to Halifax
Uber, a car-for-hire service that’s created controversy across the continent, has come to Halifax.
The San Francisco company announced Wednesday that it has launched its service in Halifax, so a fleet of drivers can now use its app to
Press Release: SHIFT in Vancouver
SHIFT Energy, a Saint John company that is developing automated energy-control systems for large facilities, issued the following press release yesterday with Canucks Sports & Entertainment:
CANUCKS SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT IMPLEMENTS NEW GREENING
Singh Sets Sites on Incubators, Grants
When Paul Singh speaks, it’s usually a good idea to forget the F-bombs and concentrate on the wisdom and candor of the other 60-percent of his speech.
When he returned to the Atlantic Venture Forum yesterday morning, he set the tone for the
Proposify Named to Techvibes 20
On the day it delivered a superb pitch at Atlantic Venture Forum, Halifax-based Proposify was named Tuesday to the Techvibes 20.
Launched in February, the Techvibes 20 is a bi-monthly list of the hottest and most promising tech startups across
Launch36’s Cohort 4 Focuses on Sales
A few hundred startup enthusiasts gathered at Pier 21 in Halifax on Monday evening to graduate the fourth cohort of tech companies from Launch36, the regional startup accelerator.
While the headline story is five more tech companies progressing
Bungalo Sets Up Office in Halifax
An Icelandic startup that markets cottages to international tourists is setting up shop in Halifax as the launchpad for its Canadian expansion.
Bungalo began in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to help Icelanders in financial straits earn
33 Startups to Pitch in 6 Days
In the next six days, at least 33 startups are going to present their business cases before crowds in the Halifax area, and what’s impressive isn’t just the number but the quality of the companies.
On Monday night, the Launch36 accelerator will
