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Wooshii Adjusts Business Focus

  • Nov 16, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Wooshii, the video crowdsourcing company that set up its North American office in Halifax last year, has been revising its business model with greater emphasis on the creative community as it works on a $1 million fundraising.

Manchester,

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Verafin, LeadSift, 4 Others Win Awards

  • Nov 15, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Six Atlantic Canadian tech companies -- Verafin of St. John’s, LeadSift, Livelenz, Carboncure, and TitanFile of the Halifax area and VidCruiter of Moncton -- have won awards or recognition in the past week, indicating the potential of the digital

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Zaptap Lines up 20 Early Adopters

  • Nov 14, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Zaptap has lined up 20 global companies to test its key product in the next six months, prompting the Fredericton-based tech company to more than double the target of its first venture capital round to $5 million.

Headed by founder and CEO Yan

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Starting Lean Sparks New Initiatives

  • Nov 13, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Just two months old, the Starting Lean course at Dalhousie University is already having an impact on the creation and mentorship of young companies in the region.

In fact, Starting Lean is radically altering the face of Startup Weekend Halifax,

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Hrabluk’s Solution for Freelancers

  • Nov 13, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Lisa Hrabluk has entered the Launch36 accelerator with a noble purpose: she wants to help freelance journalists find meaningful work with corporations, government and not-for-profit organizations.

Hrabluk has begun a company called Wicked Ideas,

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Big Blue + Big Data = Big Deal

  • Nov 12, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

IBM’s decision to establish an analytics centre in Halifax is a huge boost for the digital industry across the Atlantic region, because it will expand capacity, improve technical education and mesh with plans afoot in New Brunswick.

Premier

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The White Cross, by H.P. MacKeen

  • Nov 11, 2012
  • Peter Moreira
My grandfather, artillery officer H.P. MacKeen, shown on the left, wrote this poem in Ypres in September 1917, two months before the Battle of Passchendaele.

The White Cross

It isn’t a medal or order,

It carries no ribbon or braid
But a
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Techlink Eyes 15 States, Greece in ‘13

  • Nov 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Hoping to win contracts in 15 U.S. states as well as Greece and launch an Internet product in the next year, Sydney-based gaming machine maker Techlink  Entertainment is on a quest to raise $30 million in venture capital financing by the end of

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Interview Rocket Launches InterviewMe!

  • Nov 09, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Interview Rocket, a Halifax startup that offers interview technology for recruiters and job-seekers, has launched a new free feature for its website to help people seeking jobs arrange interviews with prospective employers.

The company issued a

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Innovacorp Joins LightSail’s D Round

  • Nov 07, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Joining the likes of Bill Gates and Peter Thiel, Innovacorp has invested in a California energy storage company that, among other projects, is building a storage facility near New Glasgow, N.S.

Berkeley-based LightSail Energy said in a  press

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Nicoll Pushes Plan for Region ETC

  • Nov 06, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

Halifax accountant James D. Nicoll is gathering support for a regional equity tax credit that doesn’t involve legislation from the four Atlantic Provinces.

Instead, he is asking the federal government to handle it.

“What we’re trying to do is

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Innovacorp Begins Hunt for New CEO

  • Nov 06, 2012
  • Peter Moreira

The hunt has officially begun for Innovacorp’s CEO.

The Nova Scotia innovation agency announced Friday that the provincial government has assigned Wilson Executive Search to find the successor to Clifford Gross, who left the position in February

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